In almost every 360 vs. PS3 debate I've seen, there's one defense the cows always give, and that is, "wait till teh cell comes with its uber micro! the homosexbox is like xbox 1.5, teh ps3 is uber powerful cause of teh cell!11!" Well, maybe they haven't always sounded that stupid, but you get the picture.


Teh Uber Cell

So, I have a question. Where is teh uber micro now? We've seen the Cell in action, and what we've seen is a "worse than 360" level of graphics. Now, I understand that in the long run the graphics will improve (look at the PS2's graphical progress over the years as an example), and maybe they'll eventually surpass the 360's general quality of graphics. But seriously, Sony has overhyped the sh!t out of this machine, and the Cell in particular.

7 SPEs all simultaneously running at 3.2GHz each sure sounded promising, but also complicated and difficult to efficiently use. Since we haven't seen any breathtaking games for the PS3, and there aren't any on the way that I know of that really blast us into the future of graphics, I think one of two things has happened:

1- The Cell isn't anywhere near as powerful as Sony has been saying it is.

or

2- The Cell is so hard to utilize to its full potential, that it's not realistic to expect graphics at the level that Sony has been hyping it up to.

Either way, the Cell isn't as great as we've been told. This was Sony's big gun, the fanboys super weapon, and it's dead to me in terms of being a relevant factor when choosing a console now.