Mario is the biggest fan boy in the world lol The Cell WAS hard to program for at first but once you learn it it makes no difference. Hes taking year old news and still using it. I've taught myself to program for the Cell it's just C++ but structuring the programs differently to run on different SPEs. The Cell Is a CPU not a half GPU half CPU it has one main CPU and 7 SPEs it's main use is for multimedia applications thats where your getting the GPU/CPU. The CELL and the RSX to two separate Processors in the PS3. The cell crunches data and the RSX is the graphic chip set. If it was that hard to use you wouldn't have researchers linking up clusters of PS3s instead of paying 5000 for an hour on a supercomputer they can build their own that is free to use whenever. They are using PS3s for folding to cure cancer and now to measure vibrations caused by black holes. Don't take a bunch of news and twist it into what you want to hear. Both systems are doing fine get over it I just don't have a 360 cause like other people I have a PC for those games.