Bill Gates has come out and claimed what many PS3 are fearing: the PS3 will never have a graphics advantage over the Xbox 360. He claims that developers have had a one year head start making games for the Xbox 360, and they will never be able to catch up with the PS3 because the latter system is too hard to program for.

Gates also takes a cheap but truthful shot at the PS3 by pointing out that after Sony worked on the Cell processor for over a year, they threw in a Nvidia chip at the last second, not giving anyone a chance to learn how to optimize the new platform format.

Will Gates be right about this one, or will it turn into another one of his “nobody will need more than half a MB of memory” moments?

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