Gabe Newell of Valve famously hated the Cell architecture, and I think that's very illustrative. He is of the generation of game devs that was very willing to t

Gabe Newell of Valve famously hated the Cell architecture, and I think that's very illustrative. He is of the generation of game devs that was very willing to try wild algorithms and hand-massage assembly and use all tricks to get 3D fast, so the PS3 should have been a perfect fit. But he did not like to have to start back at square one.