Quick Question.

[Trotter]

The PS3 (and other consoles) handle their games so well because they are not running a full OS, and the games are hard-coded for their specific hardware and software.

If you took the hardware of a high-end PC, put a custom made OS in it that was for gaming only, then wrote games for that setup only, it would shred ANYTHING MS or Sony could come up with right now.

 

[Apokalipse]

I'm not sure, if you can compare them, since the PS3 uses the Cell processor. I would think it's very different from desktop processors. I'm assuming the PS3's Cell processor is much more powerful....for gaming. I could be wrong....but I think overall, a high-end PC beats the PS3.

The PS3 does have more power.
But the Cell processors were only designed specifically for a certain kind of processing capability

AMD is actually thinking about going along that path, in its future CPU's.