The "less-talked-about" PS3 battle

Cell processor and Windows

I think the Bluray is more feasible battle for them. The Bluray battle, although a tough one (with average consumers), is much easier than the Cell processor battle (with the computing world).

With the Cell, they are competing with widely accepted types of processor architectures. Moving to the Cell forces programmers to change their thinking and a lot of their coding habits. That's not an easy task.

Beyond that, we all know that Windows is the dominating operating system. Although it could be reworked for the Cell, all prior programs compiled for x86 architecture wouldn't work. That is a big problem.

It's one uphill battle there. However, it does beg the question of when we can escape the x86 architecture.

-SuicideNinja