This made a lot of sense when the PS3 first came out, but since then we've gotten low-power architectures and extremely powerful and cheap GPU's. http://www.nv

This made a lot of sense when the PS3 first came out, but since then we've gotten low-power architectures and extremely powerful and cheap GPU's. http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_72770.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_72770.html Those, for example, are dirt cheap and have similar benefits to the Cell. And you don't have to work around a platform that was designed for playing games.