Quote:u miss the point of my post, A/ cell is a lot lot better at this than a top of the line pc cpu, ie the $1000+ is a lot more illsuited than cellI doubt that the CELL is faster than a quad core in practice.
It is like a vitamin pill package: you can read on the package what is in the pill but you do not know what is really absorbed by your body :-). People buy the pill because they believe that what is described on the package would really end up in their body :-). So the description what is in the pill let's them mentally skip the part what is really absorbed by their body. Now think of the PS2 as a super-computer and the description of its raw computational power is the description on the package of the vitamin pill package. Now go slowly one step further and think about the PS3 ...
Or in other words, the environment, cache sizes, data layout and a lot of other factors have a huge influence on what can be really achieved with a hardware platform. Some people have realized that a fast processor in a PC does not make it faster as long as the bottleneck is somewhere else.
So first of all you can do this stuff easier and faster on a quad or double quad core. Second the car looks even not as good as a car in a next-gen Console racing game. This car looks pretty boring with not a lot going on on its surface. Check out Gran Turismo HD screenshots. You can see the environment reflections and the environment color influencing the car.
