Topic: Nintendo Reveals

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I doubt it'll download Cube games, even though most of them are below one GB that's still too much for online distribution.

bubicus: Your argument about hard coding would hold up if it was programmers making the calls. Unfortunately it's the Managers who do and managers couldn't care less about the difficulties of developing for one platform. Also, the Cell seems to be much easier so far than the X360 CPU. Doesn't surprise me, you have one general purpose core that runs your program and throws some of it at its math unit, when you need to do batch vector math you write an APUlet* and let the hardware find a free SPU to run that on. All you need to worry about is throwing the right data at that SPU and collecting the result once it's done. From what I heard the compiler will handle even that for you, though (there's your "automated assitant program").

*= Old terminology as it was used in the Cell patent, I don't know what it's called nowadays.