Dragon wrote:
the PS3's processer is stronger then a computer, and the PS3 can complete 51 billion dot operations per second while the 360 can only complete 33.6 billion per second. This means that the PS3 will have 50% less the loading times that of the 360.
First, they're called
Floating Point Calculations, not 'dot operations'.
Second, you're wrong. The loading time depends on how well designed the firmware is as well. Billions of floating point calculations make no difference to starting up the computer.
For example, if you have a 3GHz P4 processor, and you boot up linux, it will take you a about 3-4 minutes, because linux's booting system takes ages. You can start up a Windows computer on a 1.6GHz processor, and it will take about 2 minutes.
What the advert said about the rain is true. The cell will be able to make rain be realistic, it will be able to process physics and stuff, because the processor has excellent an excellent FloP (floating point) calculation rate. These are excellent for gaming, because of physics, trajectories, gravity, stuff like that.
The PS3 is an excellent platform for games. Pity its owned by Sony - who are gaming Nazis and want absolute power over the gaming industry. Its also a pity that its still just based on the boring-ass old gamepad, unlike the Wii's revolutionary remote control, and there will probably be hardly any decent games for it.