[hajile]

For every person singing it's praises, there are dozens of game developers who were singing with gladness when it was gone. The PS3 devs I've spoken with (you aside) universally hated the platform and spoke of how much more dev time it took to launch games on the platform to achieve mediocre results.

If the chip were so wonderful to work on, then it would still be in use today as the theoretical performance per area beats everything else by a wide margin.

Roadrunner was built in 2008. It would still be just barely off the top 500 list in 2021, but was decommissioned just FIVE years later in 2013. Its x86 replacement was already underway in 2010 TWO years after its launch.

I'm glad you got to work with the architecture you loved for so many years, but I think the rest of the world disagrees with your assessment.