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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 2817423" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>GameSpot simply doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to console CPUs; they're repeating Sony's press releases instead of talking to game programmers. The Xbox 360's Xenon is a bad CPU for a modern game machine. The Cell is a terrible one. And the Wii's 800 MHz or so G3 would have been decent... four years ago; it's not architectually stupid, but it's just way too slow. The theoretical numbers on the Xenon and Cell aren't that bad, but their designs just suck for real games, which aren't massively multithreaded (and can't easily be massively multithreaded), and which are helped a lot by out-of-order execution (which modern PC CPUs have, and neither the Cell nor the Xenon do). Really, I have to think that IBM Microelectronics was giving insanely good deals to do the CPU design work for MS, Sony, and Nintendo, because they would have gotten much better performance out of standard PC CPUs.</p></blockquote><p></p>