The author has a point even if he fails to drive it home or give specific examples. What he's basically saying is that in the past with a lack of lots of middleware engines developers were forced to code to the metal of the specific hardware of each console. This often resulted in continous improvement as the developers learned more progrtamming tricks to get the most out of the hardware.
I remmember some developer interview's that were done in the early days where some developers were saying that the wii hardware was better than we thought. That was as also supported by ATI when they said that the chip in the wii is capable of HD. The wii is supposed to be 1.5x stronger than the original xbox, which was capable of HD. More and more developers like High voltage,(conduit), and EA are now saying there is more to the wii's hardware. One developer early on even hinted at the fa...
Listen, msoft has put a lot of time and money into 3rd party relations this genetation at the expense of 1st party development.
Why did they do this? Because they clearly had the better hardware last generation and it did little to stop the ps2, just like the wii is clearly inferior to both the ps3 and the 360 and sells more than both combined. The difference is that instead of attacking the casual market like nintendo msoft has decided to get all the core 3rd party games on...
Tell me one person here who PLAYS games that want there framerate all over the place.
Playing a shooter I scope the enemy only to have a framrate dip and he moves.
Playing a fighting game I go to execute my super only to perform a different move because of a framrate dip
Playing a platformer I go to jump on the last island to face the boss and end the game only to have my timing thrown off and fall in the lake of fire.
Don't tell m...
I agree they're learning, but there learning both, on the ps3 you have to learn the cell with it's single core and 7 spu's single threaded design. On the 360 you have to learn the 3 cores 3 vpu's( Oh did you forget about the 360's "vpu's" vector poit units, and it's multithreaded design.
My belief is that the ps3 learning curve starts off really high and decreases as you learn to use the spu's this is supported by sony's own developers, But the 360 starts off low b...
Pay attention to what these new games from sony actually do. Incredible graphics, physics, and animations in an always ever reseting world . Key words ever reseting world, not a continually deforming world because this is a memory intensive effect that 1st and 2nd party sony developer have avoided, and have instead decided to play up the machines strengths, also they are not the only developers to have framerate issues with the ps3 and some of those sony gems KZ2, uncharted, and countles...
Stop being fanboy zealots for a minut and admit they probably know a whole lot more about programming than you and that if they showed you code magic you wouldn't know it from code crap.
Listen you sony zealots, every sony developer is right when they say this game can't be done on the 360, you all eat that up and take it as the truth as if that same sony funded developer has ever done a 360 game. But when developers that have worked on both systems that are trully independent say there is a problem in doing this on the ps3 they've got to be nOObs or lazy programmers, NOT. You are either going to take the word of developers or not seeing as though not one of us has actually...
AHH.... Finally some truth and it's now coming out of more and more REAL 3rd party studios. I.E.... yes the ps3 has a incredibly powerful cpu but its gpu is average and there's only so much help the cell can give to the nvidia gpu you sony zealots never mention. The 360 has an above average cpu with an open memory system and an unmatched gpu in this console generation. Theres only so much you can do when you've split your memory into two pots of 256mb instead of one lump at 512mb. I.E. ...
I think that sony will have a Big e3 too. But all the big companies: M$oft, sony, and nintendo have said "Wait till e3 you will be blown away". Those people in the know expect this to be the biggest E3 ever all signs point to a huge E3 for everybody.
What I think will happen is:
1.) Sony gets a huge exclusive or sony takes away exclusitivity of a game planned for 360 originally i.e.. mass effect or gears of war, and unviels their psp go.
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Finally the truth is coming out!!! I hear all these people talking about Apple as if thier gods and there software/hardware combo is the best, it's not, same with linux. Just because nooobody was using mac's or linux they felt as if they were better than everyone else. The truth is that nobody wrote software for those platforms and that includes the hackers that send these viruses to everybody anyway. So now the more thay sell the more thay'll be attacked and then people will see just why ...
Well if you're trying to say that you think the 360 is maxed out with gow2 graphically then you're mistaken. The Unreal Engine in it's current form is maxed out on the 360, thats not the same as the 360 being maxed out. Unreal is JUST an engine designed to make it easier for programmers to make a game on the 360,ps3, and pc. The Unreal Engine clearly has its limits thats why the cryEngine was just demoed and is clearly superior to UE. Graphically speaking there's nothing out there that lo...
I expect 2 or more games from rare,(good ones that they took thier time with), 2 or more games from mistwlker(rpg's like blue dragon2, lost odessy2 etc...), at least 1 big game from bungie( before it's non-compeate clause expires).
so heres the list of expected titles:
1. new perfect dark {not cel shaded)
2. diddy kong (IP owned by rare not nitendo)
3. blue dragon2
4. lost odessy2
5. new viva pinyata2(not party games)
6. n...
You have to watch interviews, and listen to what questions are asked and what developers are and are not allowed to talk about. M$oft was there had a lot to show developers and had them all sign nda's which is why it's been a virtual quiet storm of no news from thier camp. But you can tell lots of the journalist that were there and got to see some stuff that they couldn't report on yet are psyched about E3 for M$ost,.... I wonder why...?
Just to clarify things, I'm not putting a lot in E3 and TGS, M$oft is, they do it to shock and suprise us every year, and thanks for the FF comment it reminded me that, thats exactly the kind of thing that thier going for, what you woudn't expect. Killzone2 did did look better than gow2, thats the point the supposed graphical barrier hit by the unreal engine on the 360 with gow2 has now been surpassed with the cryengine, and no games on the horizion looks better than whats capable with the ...
Those of you worried about the 360 for 2009 Stop it. Microsoft does this every year and every year we say does m$oft have any games for us, of coarse they do. They haven't shown thier hand, because they weren't forced to we'll see thier games at E3 and TGS. Sony had no choice but to show thier hand and put all thier cards on the table, go back and look at the numbers and the news story's( headlines.. 360 out sells ps3 in japan thanks to rpgs 360 continues to dominate ps3 in U.S.A , europe...
Well in this crazy world where no one thought that the psp would be around to celebrate it's 2nd birthday it's possible, but for sony's own sake I hope they keep thier mouths shut, the cost down, and the games coming.
I agree it's a sad day when you think no more BC what about all the good games that you've yet to make compatible. I also really don't want to have to own 2 machines to play these great games, and it's just terrible to think how Msoft deserted to oddworld develpers.
You fanboys are ridiculous.
First off everybody knows that the cell cpu in the ps3 can do 2x to 2.5x the number of calculations as the xenon in the xbox360.
The problem is that no one on this site seems to remember anything about basic programming. Namely that THE CELL as wonderful of a proccessor as it is, DOES NOT RENDER GRAPHICS. It does assist the nvidia gpu with; geometry, physics, collision detection and animations. This takes a HUGE LOAD OFF THE MODER...
The ps3 has a superior cpu, that allows it to excell in physics, geometry, and animations, things that requior continueous calculations to be done on a small memory footprint. The x360 has a superior gpu, this will allow it to excell in alpha blending, anti alaising, vertex shading, and larger textures, things that requior huge chunks of ram, or are renderd through the gpu.
Bottom line is that while the ps3 is definetly on top with kz2 and uncharted 2 is on the way with gow3 t...