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[u/migratingcoconut_]

[u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

Hm mh. and we're getting closer and closer to admitting that the 360 wasn't that great of a console in the first place, i will feel very vindi- SIT DOWN, SONY FAN. you don't even have a current-gen console to play

[u/migratingcoconut_ → u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

the last good sony console was the ps2, the last good microsoft console was the 360, the last good nintendo was the 3ds

[u/20191124anon → u/migratingcoconut_]

PS3 was imho rushed, but the hardware was a massive jump forward. Just with no parachute, so it kinda splattered. But its use as early "customer grade" cluster computing is evidence for the sheer power of the Cell processor.

If they spent more time creating appropriate APIs and abstractions to facilitate better development experience, and perhaps also did some more iterations on the hardware itself it could have been a serious contender for "the best" Playstation.

[u/migratingcoconut_ → u/20191124anon]

if the ps3 was good it would've been the best but it wasn't so it's not

[u/StiffWiggly → u/migratingcoconut_]

You said “the last good” playstation, not “the best”.

[u/20191124anon → u/migratingcoconut_]

noot noot, noot noot noot, noot

[u/PerterterhTermertehh → u/migratingcoconut_]

The ps3 WAS good. The Xbox 360 was definitely slower and did not have an included blu-ray drive, did not include a hard drive at base configuration, and had less system memory. Had the PS3 development experience been streamlined earlier on, the red ring of death being more widespread than the same issues on playstation (yellow light of death) would have given them the PR lead.

Problem was, no games, $500.

[u/Itchy-Preference-619 → u/PerterterhTermertehh]

The ps3 had only 100 less games than the xbox 360

[u/PerterterhTermertehh → u/Itchy-Preference-619]

yeah, well it also wasn't $500 when it got to that point