PS3 are really powerful. That's why the PS3 team in Folding@home are one of the top in such a short time
All the latest consoles today is powered by IBM. XBox 360 = PowerPC-based multicore Xenon chip, PS3 = IBM Cell-based chip, Wii = Low power PowerPC-based Broadway chip. lol
Hmm.. I thought IBM quit making PowerPC chips? I think they quit making x86 chips even earlier... when they dropped the Cyrix MII processor.