The Xbox did not have a cell. It had a power core without the cell. The cell processor was intended to be the graphics solution for the PS3 [1]. The story I he

The Xbox did not have a cell. It had a power core without the cell. The cell processor was intended to be the graphics solution for the PS3 [1]. The story I heard was that Sony was a hardware company and its engineers wanted technology that would work for new digital television applications and believed that the cell was going to be the perfect solution for everything, with its 8 "cpus". Except nVidia. Turns out a GPU is better at graphics than even eight very fast cpus. The PS3 wasn't going to have a GPU, and then they saw some Xbox 360 demos and had a brown pants moment. So they added a GPU at the last minute. [1] https://www.criticalhit.net/gaming/a-brief-history-of-the-playstation-3/