Can any of you tell me if this is true?
The PS3 has only 1 main processor at 500mb. Bigger you say yes, but when you think about it it has those other 7 processors. Now whomever designed this did not think about the companies producing the games. The 7 extra procesors are a measly 25mb big. The main 500mb process is left to process the graphics and all the arithmetic and logic calculations. Now thats where the other 7 come into play I hear you say. Well not completely; the other 7 processors (being 25mb big) are a pain in the ass to use. Reason is that which programmer or even company are going to look for bits of code that are only 25mb big? Basically no one; that being said, up to today the maximum amount of processors being used in the PS3 is 5 so far. This is done by Gears of war 2, who uses 5 processors -the main and 4 sub processors. The reason the 7 are not used so much is because to find code that doesn't timelapse (run at the same time) and is the right size for one processor -otherwise it has to be split over two of them- takes a lot of time, time is money and therefore the companies don't bother with them often.
The PS3 has only 1 main processor at 500mb. Bigger you say yes, but when you think about it it has those other 7 processors. Now whomever designed this did not think about the companies producing the games. The 7 extra procesors are a measly 25mb big. The main 500mb process is left to process the graphics and all the arithmetic and logic calculations. Now thats where the other 7 come into play I hear you say. Well not completely; the other 7 processors (being 25mb big) are a pain in the ass to use. Reason is that which programmer or even company are going to look for bits of code that are only 25mb big? Basically no one; that being said, up to today the maximum amount of processors being used in the PS3 is 5 so far. This is done by Gears of war 2, who uses 5 processors -the main and 4 sub processors. The reason the 7 are not used so much is because to find code that doesn't timelapse (run at the same time) and is the right size for one processor -otherwise it has to be split over two of them- takes a lot of time, time is money and therefore the companies don't bother with them often.
