Did Sony help Microsoft with the Xbox 360?
January 2nd, 2009 Posted in Business, News, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 by James
A new book, titled “The Race for a New Game Machine”, paints an interesting story about the development of the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles, in particular, the processors powering each console.
The authors, David Shippy and Mickie Phipps claim that IBM — who manufactures CPUs for both consoles — used some of the research from the Cell processor it was co-developing with Sony and Toshiba, and helped Microsoft make a CPU for it’s own console, the Xbox 360.
If it wasn’t enough that Sony’s R&D money was spent helping MS, it helped the Xbox 360 beat the PS3 to the market with a full year.
The Wall Street Journal has a full article here. A very interesting read on the early stages of the current console wars.