"Keep in mind, the US Air force connected 1000+ of these together for super computing purposes." Which I have long suspected was just a marketing stunt, becaus

"Keep in mind, the US Air force connected 1000+ of these together for super computing purposes." Which I have long suspected was just a marketing stunt, because even at the time it made no sense. Even on the day of release, the PS3 was merely right where we'd expect a console of the time to perform. No better, and certainly not massively better. My hat's off to Sony for the quality of their propaganda around the PS3. Lots of people still seem to believe it was something amazing, rather than... a console, which worked about as well as expected. Honestly I'd rate it a bit under par when evaluated objectively, in their zeal to pump up some of their metrics they trashed some other ones like the way memory access works in that system. They'd probably have been better off with a more traditional architecture in the end.