Linkies?
No specific links right now, sorry. Google will help you though.
Why would IBM, a highly technological and industrial company, misrepresent their new technology as being aimed at a different market to the ones they are currently targeting? If the Cell was great at high end server stuff (which it probably is too, with so much raw power and the ease of increasing it), wouldn't it be that direction that they spin their marketing?
Ask IBM, not me.
Linkies to the dev team's comments on that, please?
Search for the X06 video where the devteam presents Assassins Creed for the XBox 360.
Lack of understanding of multitasking? Or just plum bad coding? I don't see how AI can be affected by a type of CPU, isn't it the code that drives it that's the problem?
Well, the 360 has 3 CPUs and every one can run 2 threads so no lack of understanding. And by the way: multitasking != multithreading. I guess there are 2 possibilities:
1. The PS3 is simply not that powerful
2. The PS3 is too hard to program
Chose, but both are very bad for future PS3 games. Even if the PS3 is 20% more powerful than the XBox 360, where is the point if the maximum the most game developers will reach are 80% of it's power with hardcore-coding while they can release 100% of the XBox 360s power with total ease?