The Cell and the PS4

Will the PS4 use an upgraded version of the power cell processor, or will they look to go in a new direction? Sony continues to push innovation in each console with the emotion engine in the PS2, and now the Cell in the PS3, but unfortunately inexperienced developers had a hard time harnessing the Cell to make it run games smoothly. Now since developers have a grip on the cell and it's advanced architecture, will Sony decide to keep the Cell and just give it a slight power boost?

Didn't they say they were going to ditch it?

They're supposedly going with an AMD x86 based CPU.

[QUOTE="Badosh"]Who knows what will happen? Also, level 3. Read the rules.PS3FanMan4Life

You can post, just can't create a topic.

They're supposedly going with an AMD x86 based CPU.

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They're supposedly going with an AMD x86 based CPU.

PS3FanMan4Life

Cell has no untapped potential at all.

Its pretty much maxed out and the processor itself is bottlenecked by the RAM and the GPU.

Do you believe we are even ready for the PS4? I mean the cell still has a lot of untapped potential, and I would rather see the Xbox 720 come out before the market is ready, fail; then allow for the PS4 to come out in 2-3 years when the cell is finally outdated, and then finally dominate the gaming market again.PS3FanMan4Life

Yes. Consoles have pretty much tapped out at this point. We're seeing massive sacrifices to things such as FPS in order for more effects etc. This could somehwta be to poor developers, but we're just not seeing the advancements anymore. The Cell isn't some magic processor, unfortunately.