@jereb31: I'm an engineer too, and I can tell you i'm always finding new ways to optimize CPUs which the developers never quite knew about. The Cell was almost it's own life force in that it was so advanced for it's time, the developers couldn't even fully understand it's power and capabilities.

I believe Scorpio will mop the floor. In fact, I believe it's possible Scorpio could seriously cripple PC gaming as well. We've already begun to see PC sales slip as console gaming has become so popular. Scorpio is likely going to have a unique cpu architecture which can compete with the latest i7 processors.

@MirkoS77: Couple reasons:

1.) Bragging rights of having a more powerful system

2.) Knowing your system has the potential to last a very long time

3.) Value in knowing you paid for something which has a lot of power as opposed to something which has less power

@Pedro: No but there are often times "hidden secrets" if you will when it comes to processors. The power of The Cell wasn't fully realized until developers could understand it better. Only toward the end did they begin to wrap their heads around it. The Cells maximum efficiency has probably yet to be tapped.

@jereb31: It's power was never fully harnessed. Still can probably compete with the latest processors if some dev team could actually tap into it's full power.

@dynamitecop: Well if you think about it, all The Cells were connected through PSN, so essentially all PS3 owners had their own super-super computer in a way. Lol. Folding@home combined all the power for research.

@ProtossRushX: Exactly my point. Cell was essentially a super computer, it's just the Devs couldn't always easily tap in to all the power.

@xantufrog: The Cell did take a while for the developers to understand to a point where they could develop some great games, but it did work out in the end. Microsoft's timeline isn't 1-2 years, it's probably more like 6-7 years, so for them to develop a Cell-like processor would be a great idea, given it has the same amount untapped power.

@chriscoolguy: Rumors are, the Scorpio will feature a CPU with a unique architecture which should be able to destroy the latest and greatest i7 processors. Microsoft is really going all in with the Scorpio.

@i_p_daily: You're way too objective. Live a little! Get hyped NOW.