Perfect reflection of the theoretical strengths of each GPU in isolation.

The writer was astute enough to explain the advantages and disadvantages of unified shaders and to outline the benefit of having discrete pixel shader processors.

I hope seeing this information in an article helps fanboys on both sides of the spectrum see things more clearly.

Finally someone who know what he is talking about ...

backed by screen and videos to prove his statement ..
N4G need more articles like this one ..instead off "xxx thinks that xxx is going to fail in the next xxx months "

I agree with that, and like I said I wasn't at all trying to bash, but I do feel you. I just got 5 (phantom) disagree's for a completely honest and truthful commit, that my friend is astounding.

I do NOT know what you saw as you didn't put out any actual proof I can see, but frankly speaking I played through both and can tell you that there are far more limbs and especially blood on the ground after each fight.

Tbh raztad I'm sure they were looking at the best ways to utilise the ps3, I doubt they finished porting it thinking 'Damn, what about the The Cell? We didn't use it!'

EDIT:These are professional programmers who know how to make a game, are you saying you know better?

Ok. I guess I missworded my first comment. I meant that in the ARTICLE there is not information about how The Cell was used. I wasnt saying that TN didnt use The Cell. However the lack of references to how they stressed the PS3 cpus make me think that TN didnt exploit the SPUS or the writer has no information about it, but it's all good, TN did an awesome work with Sigma 2, things only can get better from now on. At least they have a fully PS3 tailored engine in place plus the know-how.

Are the two of you just bone heads? or is your reading comprehension very poor. raztad did not say they did not use the Cell processor, he said or what he meant is that Digital Foundry did not mention the use of the cell proccessor or how they used it in the article.

How the two of you got that he was saying he new how to program or even that he could program better than the developer is beyond me.

I own and have played the 360 version and also have played the PS3 version, the PS3 version is better than the Xbox 360 version. It has better textures, (some have been redesigned) much better lighting, no screen taring and better resolution along with much more content. The PS3 version is the more balanced of two versions.
It is also a better playing game on the PS3.

the engine is clearly tailored to the strengths of the GPU and shows no sign of the kinds of effects enabled by the Cell such as extreme polygon counts, advanced DOF, advanced motion blur, etc...

For some perspective, it took Naughty Dog 4 years to get where they are with using the Cell to accelerate the GPU. They've effectively doubled performance. Guerrila Games have probably reached that point by now as well in their development of Killzone 3. Maybe Polyphony Digital too ... we'll find out soon.

Anyone else?

Sony Santa Monica is another powerhouse, GoW3 will show the latest in Cell BA coding. If I undertand correctly, Sony's first/second party devels share their experiences/tech so I expect UC2/KZ2 visuals to be improved in upcoming games.

That said, it's good to see that Tecmo was able to reach such good visuals in Sigma 2 only using the RSX, thats a very fine coding there.

@ Eddie20101
I agree, I didn't understand what he meant at first, but to be fair you must be just as boneheaded, and poor at comprehension as we were to not notice my edit and follow up response where I did read the commit again and say that we were both trying to say the same thing, then told him sorry about my mistake, 5 hours before your commit. Maybe you should do what I did and read all the commits again and then see if you are man enough to admit you were wrong like i did. (Just a suggestion)

@ MNicholas. Any one else for what? This discussion was about whether or not they used the Cell at all (in NGS2), and I do believe they did. I never said one word about ND or UC2, but I do understand that is a fanboy answer for everything here at N4G. Just to be clear we where talking about the NGS2 article not any of the sh!t you posted about. The conclusion that we all seemed to have come to is that in this article they didn't say one way or the other, but it being rebuilt (or coded) for the PS3 from the ground up I would assume that they did use it in some way, to think other wise IMO is sort of stupid.

clearly shows that PS3 has absolutely NO problems pushing polygons. Team Ninja clearly didn't utilize the Cell much though i still applaud them for their efforts.

Anyway, i'll take true HD resolution and stable/playable framerates over 1(or 2) more enemies any day. Given a chance to redo the 360 version, i'm pretty sure TN would have capped the enemy count to improve the framerates too, it's a no brainer