Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear...
by detaro on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:43AM
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Even if it's well-understood, being fundamentally different than the other platforms is still a cost for anyone not exclusively making Playstation titles.
Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear...
by ascagnel_ on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:53AM
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The Cell was poorly suited for video games — video games don’t have much in the way of highly parallelizable, discrete tasks. Games, even modern ones, generally want fewer, higher-clocked cores — something like Threadripper would be of little benefit.
If it’s the latter then building the PS4 on the cell as well should have been fine as by that point it’s a well-known and well-understood architecture.