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Remember that the PS3 is a multi billion dollar venture between IBM, Sony, RAMBUS, and their graphics provider (nVidia, right?). They wouldn't use a multi core processor if programming games for such a chip wasn't feasible. I just thought I would add that
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xbox as well, it seems, is rumored to also have three(?) power pc cpus. programming games for smp is certainly possible, but b/c of its increased technical difficulty/complexity, it requires much more people (and thus money---> which especially hits pc devs).
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For those who think multiple cores are inefficient for gaming I say:
Don't look at the PS3. It's a perfect coutnerexample. The PS3's CPU is a chip engineered and produced by IBM called the "Cell". Initially it will use 16 (not a typo) cores.
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well, its not so much the cpus but the software that is not optimized. Server apps are smp optimized and thus scale nicely with more cpus. However, the tasks they do are more intrinsically smp-able than games/graphics engines are.