The Sony-Toshiba-IBM alliance had much grander plans for the Cell architecture, which ultimately came to naught. The PS3 wasn't just a console, it was supposed to be a revolution in computing. As a console, it did alright (though it's still handily beaten by its own predecessor and marginally by its own successor), but as an exponent of the Cell architecture that was supposed to be the future, it failed miserably. Sony yanked OtherOS a couple of years into its life, and while a Cell supercomputer was the first to break the petaflop barrier, it was quickly surpassed by x86 and then Arm.