[gmbar]

Please get your facts straight. Even if PS3 has so much cores, none of these cores can use a unified memory. They have to copy a lot of info to and from memorty, without actually doing something.The Xbox Cores handle this much batter for games.But one after another:First: The Xbox has 512 MB System RAM as you state. The PS3 only has 256. This way, the Xbox was able to do a lot of stuff in the background, like Friendlists avaliable across all games, Instant Messaging etc.As I said above: The Xbox's memory architecture is specially designed for games. So the cores can use the other core's memory information, a core can be used in multiple ways and massively parallelize. The PS3's cores are very specialized, and if one core can't do an instruction due to it's specialization, it has to copy all its data to another memory, so another core can use it, which makes the PS3 slower than the Xbox 360 in a "real world" environment (I know, that the PS3 kicks major a** at Folding@home scientific stuff).Please read the first link below for actual benchmarks of the hardware. The Xbox with its 3 cores is with the exception of floating point calculations always faster than the PS3.And if the PS3 is so superior: Why is Madden only running at 30 Frames per Second on the PS3, but 60 frames per second on Xbox 360?Then the Storage of Blue Ray: A PC has virtually unlimited storage for games on it's harddisc. Even more than the PS3's 50 GB Blue Ray stuff.However, almost every game will fit on a normal double layered DVD. Most games don't even take that space.Sony wastes this space by putting uncompressed audio and textures on the disc. And due to the slow seeking speed of the Blue Ray format sometimes places often read data twice on the disc, so the PS3 can jump to the nearest sector of the disc for this data.So the game companies don't need that space. And compression algorithms further minimize the need for larger storage media.Furthermore: The Blue Ray format allows the Movie Industry to shut down your PS3, if it is found to allow ripping of Blue Ray Movies. The PS3 has to store this shutdown key irrevokeably in its memory, thus prohibiting your PS3 to play any Blue Ray movie. Even the ones you already bought and own.And finally: You list an impressive list of games. But how many games are also playable on other consoles?Face it: The PS3 sells poorly. And therefore not a lot of publishers risk their programming investment on a console, that is not that distributed like other consoles.Therefore the Xbox has and will get a lot of exclusive games, that you never see on the PS3. For example the recently released Bioshock. Only on PC and Xbox 360. However past PS exclusives like Devil May Cry, Katamari Damacy and others are now on the Xbox, too.As hard as it is for a true Sony Fanboy: The PS3 is currently loosing the console war. And a fact is a fact. No matter how you spin it.