There's a book about the development of both of them, The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 by David Shi

There's a book about the development of both of them, The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 by David Shippy & Mickie Phipps. [0] It has some details on the awkward position the IBM developers were put in. Rodrigo Copetti's excellent articles on the PS3[1] and Xbox 360 [2] and Ars' Hannibal's article on the Xenon Chip. [3] [0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6056634 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6056634 [1] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/ https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/ [2] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/xbox-360/ https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/xbox-360/ [3] https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/06/xbox360-2/ https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/06/xbox360-2/