Sony didn't design the PS3 to be difficult for developers to make games for. They designed the PS3 to be a powerful console for five years. That's why it has Blu-ray too. DVD is getting too small. Sure it's more complicated right now if you just want to port a 360 game over. I'd say though the PS3 has the longest about of time left on the market. The 360 won't be around in another three years. I doubt the Wii will be either. Unless casual gamers buy lots of games. Game developers will find it...
What was with his comment about having one team work on this year's game and another team on the game for next year? Instead just make it so you can download updates to make the game last two years. Enough of this releasing a new game every year.
NASCAR for instance. Do the tracks change year to year? Rarely. Why do they need a new game every year? Make it so the drivers and teams and sponsors can change but the game doesn't. And then add updates gamers can buy and download.
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Microsoft doesn't make hardware besides the 360. They have the Xune but there isn't much to making an MP3 player. Everything else Microsoft makes is software. And they do a poor job at making software. Everything is full of bugs. If you buy a car that breaks down all the time it's considered a lemon. Why isn't software?
I bought a PS2 the first day it came out and it still works fine. Never had a single problem with it. I also bought a PlayStation the first day and it never had the supposed problems either. Those weren't that big of a deal. The 360 problems though are caused by a bad design. They didn't design the 360 to properly disipate the heat. The heatsink is jammed inside the 360 and the heat just builds up and the whole 360 falls apart. That's a major design flaw.
So you're saying the PS3 has lots of problems but Sony is getting everyone to keep quiet. I guess they're giving gamers $5000 each to not talk about their faulty PS3. Ahahahahaha.
The 360 has a huge defective rate. IT's around 45%. You rarely hear about defective PS3s. Everything made has a small percentage of defective units. It's impossible to be defect-free. You just shouldn't be so bad that you have 45% defective rate.
The PS3 is a well designed console designed by people who know how to design hardware. The 360 was designed by people who make software and even their software is full of bugs.
Wow, Sony has to replace a whole three PS3s. That's terrible that three of them were defective. That's way too many.
Why is this even a story? If you buy something and it's defective right from the start it is under warranty and is repaired or replaced. Doesn't Taiwan have that law? And I don't even see anything in the story about overheating PS3s being replaced. It just says Sony had to replace a couple. Where's the story? All electronics have a small number of defective units...
This for me happy am I. I guess. What did they say anyway?
How can anyone seriously compare these games? The 360 is an actual finished game. The PS3 is just a demo. Wait until the PS3 version is out. How close is the PS3 version to the final game anyway?
Nambo - Lair isn't getting average scores. In fact, all the scores I've seen so far have been good. Only EGM gave Lair a bad review. But their latest comments in a podcast 1up just did are confusing. The guy who talked about it said the controls are good. In fact, everything that is important about a game was fine. Yet he still didn't like it. He had to grasp for reasons. His reasons are lame too. So EGM won't be having me as a subscriber for long maybe. Not because I disagree with a review b...
This issue isn't about learning the PS3 hardware. It's about being lazy or more interested in making fast money. Make the game on the 360 and make a sloppy PS3 port. But if they want to port the games it has been mentioned you should port from the PS3 to the 360. Maybe one day these companies will figure that out.
Time for these third party developers to stop being lazy. It's well known by everyone now the way to develop these games is make the PS3 version and port to the 360. Instead they do it backwards. It isn't hard to port a PS3 game to the 360. If you make a 360 game though it's complicated to port to the PS3. Which is most likely the reason the PS3 version of Madden is 30 FPS instead of 60.
VirusE - Did you even read the article? It talks about how Sony can actually ban the PS3. The only way the banned gamer would get back online is to buy a new PS3 if Sony wants to do that. They don't want to have to but they can. Microsoft can do it too. The cost of their online service has nothing to do with the ban.
Does anyone really care about this rumor? HD-DVD is going nowhere. And it's not like the 360 will use HD-DVD for games. So why bother?
And remembers the 360 is dead and in the shop. No gaming for two weeks. Cries self to sleep
The most likely problem is not making the game take advantage of the hard drive. Rockstar wasn't happy at all about that. They even brought it up to the press. It was stupid of Microsoft to have the 360 without a required hard drive. You need it to improve performance of a lot of games. It's like adding more RAM. Slower RAM but it helps a lot. Hopefully it won't mess up the PS3 version since all PS3's do have hard drives.
I think I remember reading about Rockstar not being happy about having to make GTA4 work on all 360's, including the ones with no hard drive. To me that says they're struggling to make the 360 version. How do you make a huge game and not use the hard drive? It just isn't easy to do. Not if you want the game to be good. Sure Gears of War came out good but it was also very short. GTA4 isn't a short game.
Everyone knows the Wii is just a fed. Nothing more. Real gamers could care less about it. It's not a next gen console. Just a gimmicky controller. The one person I know who knows someone with one said they're bored of it. Nintendo will sell plenty of their own games but third party developers will dump it when their games don't sell. So go ahead dead Beattle George Harrison and laugh now. You won't have the last laugh. The Wii just isn't very good. It's the Gamecube with a new controller.
All I see on this is some stupid post by someone I never heard of. Where's the proof this is even true? Did anyone who knows what they're saying figure this out? Come on n4g.com, stop posting links to every stupid comment on the Web. At least make them show proof.
We all know that it's easier to port a PS3 game to the 360 but EA just sees there are more 360s so they only care about the 360. Then they make their sloppy PS3 port and cry about how hard it is to port over to the PS3. Duh EA. Everyone has been talking about that for a while now.