No matter what features you stick in a system, more people will buy a $300 system than a $400 system, barring catastrophic quality failure. Just comparing GPU raw processing power. In terms of raw power, a PC is always going to be more powerful than any console on the market. The 360 has more available memory. As you already might have seen in the news section, Kazunori talked in one recent interview about both PS3's and PS4's strenghts and weaknesses and it's not the first time he hints to the fact, that PS3's Cell IS actually stronger than the CPU in the most powerful console PS4, which will be about 6-7 years more advanced in technology in general. BUT things would change just like the way it had after the inclusion of EDGE,iRT and RAPIDMIND SDK for PS3. However, remember that a game console is only designed to do one thing - play games. A New Era: PlayStation 4 and Xbox One TL’DR: About 40-60 times more powerful. The public perception of the PS3 was that it was much more powerful. It’s pretty much a net, net. This Is a PC! You can get a pc under $800 and that will be more powerful than a ps3. (And, of course, PCs became capable of so much more, if you had the money – just look at our comparison of Crysis 3 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.) A direct quote from Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack says: “The 360 and the PS3 are equal in power in my eyes,” Dyack says. Today’s PCs are much more powerful than the PS3, so for compatible games, you can also enable “Anisotropic Filtering” and “Anti-Aliasing” in RPCS3’s GPU settings for smooth game graphics with increased detail. Always. And the system with the most sales gains big network effect advantages which make it even more valuable to the consumer the more it sells. Its not that weakness is a virtue, its that price *is* a virtue. To developers, they look even.“ Its always the same from 10 games released only 1 or 2 have decent graphics, i have no problems with consoles, but saying PS3 is more powerful than high end video cards its a huge pile of C***. This is to keep things simple, though there are a lot more variables that influence performance. There’s no denying how much of a powerhouse the processor was at the time, but its unique architecture caused more than a few headaches for developers. As a famous tire brand would tell us, power is nothing without control, and the PS3 is generally held as spectacularly difficult to code for. My ps3 is still good enough for me though, but i would give anything to play skyrim on a good gaming pc. Your game console is running Windows and a bunch of other software - it only has to worry about running your game as best as it can. I would give up my ps3 and buy a $2300 pc if i could afford it. No, maybe in 2005 it rivaled them but defefinitly not in 2011. ***** The RAPIDMIND SDK is just a tweaked version of SDK that is normally used with supercomputers. The GPU in the PS3 has less post-processing capability than high-end PC video cards, but it doesn't need the video card to do things like anti-aliasing and smoothing because the SPUs are designed to do those computations, and the 7 SPUs in the Cell can do more post-processing than the hardware in a PC graphics card. The RSX is also significantly more powerful than XENOS but not as efficient at the moment . “Maybe the PS3 has more processing power. Reactions: LifeOnMars We all know that computers are more powerful than consoles, but id Software's John Carmack is sick of it.