Well that wasn’t supposed to be the architecture either. The whole thing was supposed to be vastly faster and bigger with way more SPUs. Maybe that would’ve be

Well that wasn’t supposed to be the architecture either. The whole thing was supposed to be vastly faster and bigger with way more SPUs. Maybe that would’ve been terrible, maybe not. Kinda sounds like yes in hindsight. But the SPU‘s were originally supposed to do the GPU work too I think. So there’s a reason the GPU doesn’t fit in terribly well, it had to be tacked on at the end so the PS3 had any chance at all. And it couldn’t be well designed/optimized for the rest of the system because they were out of time.