Tis a real shame we did not see SPU-like cores in later generations. The problem that I saw was that instead of embracing the power of a new architectural parad

Tis a real shame we did not see SPU-like cores in later generations. The problem that I saw was that instead of embracing the power of a new architectural paradigm people just considered it weird and difficult. I think had they provided (very slow but) normal path for accessing memory it would have made the situation much more acceptable to nominal developers. The difficulty in adopting the PS3 basically killed the idea of Many-Core as the future for high performance gaming architecture.