Silicon Knights Dyack: X360 and PS3 Are Equally Powerful

Someone finally said it. 

Xbox360’s 3 core PowerPC processor with 512MB of RAM & its high performance graphics bus is on equal footing to the Playstation 3’s cell architecture, with 1 core processor and 7 smaller cell processors using 256MB of RAM and slower bus.

If I’m a game developer, and the processing capabilities between each system are about equal, but we’ve made it easier to develop to the 360 through our tools, while the PS3 is $200 more than an Xbox360 for consumers, and Xbox360 already has a 5M units-sold headstart…

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GameDaily BIZ: Dyack: X360 and PS3 Equally Powerful

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