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by scott_karana 3082 days ago
Yep. It bad to develop for, and left lots on the table compared to its contemporary Xbox 360, despite "theoretically" better specs. 1

The Cell processor was never used in any other consoles, and the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer using them ended up being replaced by Cray+AMD hardware.

1 https://kotaku.com/5885358/why-skyrim-didnt-play-nice-with-t...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner