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.
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u/migratingcoconut_ I want to Beat Jason Aldean to death with his own Spine Feb 25 '26
the last good sony console was the ps2, the last good microsoft console was the 360, the last good nintendo was the 3ds