I'll say again. The PS3 doesn't just have a CPU, it has a PPE (what we would call a single threaded CPU), and SPE's (7 "theoretical cores" at 3.2GHz). These SPE's aren't smoke and mirrors. They aren't blunt CPU power either, but they can handle many CPU orientated tasks such as physics, AI, etc, and even rendering tasks typically reserved for the GPU. There is however, one big difference. The SPE's have to be manually utilized and allocated, where as the PPE is used as a CPU that works like any CPU on any system (calculations, calls etc). By manually allocated, I mean if the PS3 was running a video converter where number chrunching was required, it's PPE would be doing the work. The SPE's would be idle because there is no code utilizing those SPE's. They are an optional tool. Some games didn't even use them at all in the beginning of the PS3's lifespan, but the PPE was always in use from day one because it's the core of the PS3 like any CPU is on a piece of hardware. The extra power of the cell is very real. It's not smoke and mirrors at all. If the deal was that the PS3 and Cell was just a mere 3.2GHz CPU, then Sony wouldn't have wasted billions on researching it and making it difficult to program for just for shits and giggs.

The PS3 without those SPE's is a massively inferior console to the 360. Having a single core CPU on it's own at 3.2GHz compared to a tri core 3.2GHz CPU on the 360 would have been embarrising. Also with it's 192GFLOP GPU vs the 240GFLOP GPU in the 360. It would have never stood a chance if it weren't for the "power of the cell". Not even joking.

The reason modern CPU's clown PS3/360 is because they are more powerful. That's simple fact. However, comparing a PC CPU to the Cell isn't cut and dry as the SPE's really aren't CPU cores at all. They don't feed the hardware like a CPU does. They aren't "the brain" of the PS3 like the CPU is on a PC. The PPE in the PS3 does that, and as I've mentioned, the PS3's PPE(CPU)<<360's CPU. So if you want to be picky, 360 wins in both CPU and GPU, only the PS3 had the smoke and mirrors to help it.

Bottom line is, the PS3 and 360 have a CPU that is more capable than the WiiU in one way or another. And PS3's SPE's do compute tasks better than the PS4's 6 Jaguar cores that are in use.

I think he meant the ESRAM as it is known to cause a bottleneck in games as developers have said they have to manually write and clear the ram with code, instead of microsoft supplying them with the proper tools to do that.. Not sure if this has been fixed by now or what.

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Both companies wanted to make money and avoid all the mishaps from last gen. MS and Sony saved bucket loads with going with AMD instead of spending millions/billions in R&D to get different part vendors to work together. They could have spent more in allowing higher TDP based hardware Having a 8 core Jaguar at 2.4 ghz would be enough. Also IBM cpu's suck as well, they are behind AMD and Intel, the 360's cpu was actually slower then AMD's old Athlon X2's clock per clock.

Also note that PS4 has a GPGPU that can do twice as much with the same GPU time. So two of it's CU's (which it has more of to boot) can do twice as much as 2 of XB1's CU's.

Yeah, PS4 will only widen the gap lel.