the PS3 only has 6 SPEs available to developers.
6 single threaded SPEs vs 3 dual threaded cores = both the PS3 and 360 have 6 threads running at 3.2Ghz.
and you do realise that these concurrent development games - theyre not ports - DO have different teams generally working on the different platforms, dont you? its not just one bunch of people making both.
like i said in my last post, being 'optimized' for install is not the same as just working normally from the install with slightly faster loading.
Reach for example runs at a better framerate during cutscenes if its installed. other games that are installed but not 'optimized' do not, they just have quicker load times.
its a pretty minor difference, but it is a difference. few games are actually optimized for the install. most just load slight...
if they have to do a HD remake, i wish they would do MK Trilogy instead. it was the definitive MK game, and the best one by a country mile IMO.
@Computersaysno:
"PS3 IS more powerful. PS3's peak performance is greater than that of 360s."
no, the PS3 is THEORETICALLY more powerful. BIG difference to actually being more powerful in real world usage. theoretically an 8mb internet connection should be downloading 8mb a second - but in actual real world usage youre lucky to get 3mb.
"This is why PS3 code ports onto 360 without too much difficulty, but the other way rou...
i pretty much install every 360 game i get while im going to be playing it, then uninstall it when im finished with it.
and there is a difference between 'optimized for installs' and just being able to be installed like every 360 game is. Halo Reach for example is optimized to run better when installed, whereas MW2 is just able to be installed, and Halo 3 actually performs WORSE when installed.
my copy (360) is on its way to my house as we speak, can...
ive travelled over to america a few times recently, and i must say, the people there could not have been nicer if they tried. all along the east coast, west coast, and some of the south, people were only too happy to help me and my mates out and were just plain friendly to us.
its a shame that a few idiotic people get on the internet/tv and give entire countries a bad reputation. but the internet has given every idiot a voice, and unfortunately they all think everyone wants t...
lol at people wondering why they dont get this in america.
gee, maybe because you dont get the Australian TV station 'Channel 7'? you think that might be it?
i wont be using it, as i have playtv on my PS3 anyway, and i download the TV shows i want to watch, but im sure there are some people that will use it so good on them.
youre in luck then, since SWAT has been taken out of the Team Slayer playlist and given its very own playlist.
i personally love SWAT and cant wait to be able to just play it whenever i want.
lol
when it comes to hardware, yes, it IS about sales.
"Your right we didnt know much about bluray and hddvd at that time, which is why if MS actually supported hddvd, and made it the standard medium for their games, who knows what could have happened"
you obviously didnt even read my post. here, ill say it again in nice big letters:
MICROSOFT COULD NOT HAVE PUT HD-DVD IN THE XBOX 360!
it simply was...
for those that disagreed with me about it NOT being MLAA:
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
"Firstly, the definition of MLAA isn't in keeping with the basic outline of the technique as it has been described by some Pandemic staff, and it is almost certainly an extension of the edge-filter plus blur technique seen in several cross-platform titles already.&q...
those of us with 360s can see for ourselves that Halo Reach surely had to be #1.
i TRIED to play MW2 2 days after Reach came out. i say tried, because i couldnt find a match. at the time there were 600 000+ people on Reach.
you can see on Bungie.net just how many unique people played Reach, and going by those numbers it had to be number 1.
actually neither of them use MLAA. they use a custom AA that produces ALMOST the same effect as MLAA.
its not MLAA though.
If you were really concerned about graphical quality you would have bought a smaller - about 40" - 720p tv instead of the 1080p one. As it is, you're upscaling EVERY game from their native resolutions of 720p or less. I'll give you a bit of advice - a game will look better in it's native resolution 100% of the time.
Why can people not get it through their heads that neither blu-ray nor hd-DVD were even an option for Microsoft to use in the 360? They literall...
Completely agree, and I can't for the life of me understand why they went the 'floating' crosshairs instead. It means you can't turn quickly, and have to constantly be looking at different parts of the screen while aiming instead of looking straight ahead like you would when firing a real gun. When you shoot a real gun you basically lock your head online with the guns sight, you don't look somewhere while waving the gun around trying to aim there.
The auto...
Wow some of you guys are dumb.
Microsoft could NOT have used blu-ray or hd-DVD in the 360 without delaying the console about 12 months. The tech standards and hardware were not complete when the 360 released, let alone 18 months earlier when the 360s hardware had to be finalized. Remember, we're talking 2004 here - none of you had even heard of blu-ray, hd-dvd, or probably even the 360.
They absolutely made the right choice in using DVD. The only reason t...
basically, they screwed up the net code for Gears 2 from the beginning. like you said, it shouldnt be lagging 2 seconds even in worst case conditions. that was bad net code.
but like i said, theyve basically fixed it now.
and they did NOT just 'remove' international play. i can still play with Americans etc, and sometimes i DO get a good connection, especially when theres 5 of us aussies and one of us is the host. its all good then usually. and you ca...
lol @ Newtype.
there is ALWAYS lag playing with people across oceans in other countries. it is literally impossible NOT to have lag, as data travelling at the speed of light still produces latency when its travelling across the globe and back.
you might not notice the lag, but its there. just because you dont see people jumping all over the place and glitching it doesnt mean theyre not lagging - it just means that they have got good client side methods of hid...
44 thousand.........so basically every single 360 owner in Japan bought Reach!
i love the controls in reach, theyre about as perfect as you can get for an FPS on a controller.
initially i didnt like the thought of melee on the bumper, but in actual reality it makes much more sense and is a lot better in use. it means you ALWAYS have the ability to melee, which is a VERY vital part of being a good halo player. with melee controlled by a face button, you lose that split second where you have to aim at the target, then move to the face button and press mel...
lol
The PS3 has 8 SPUs in total, plus 1 PPE.
1 SPU is reserved for the Operating System. Developers cannot use it.
1 SPU is disabled from the factory PERMANENTLY for redundancy. Developers cannot use it.
The PPE is just the central controller for the SPUs. all it does is split up the code and deliver it to the appropriate SPU, then get it all back from the SPUs and put it back together. it doesnt actually get used by Developers for ac...