You are absolutely right, but we are not talking about if sony is going well .. we are talking about if PS3 works for the 3rd Parties .. if it can raise profits for them.
You have to look from the publishers point of view.
And don't even think sony can use the PS2 profits to lower PS3 licence cost .. that is not allowed. But as you said, they aren't going bankrupt or anything.
PS3 "fabrication" costs are the highest the industry ever seen, it will have to rise a userbase larger then PS2 had to match Wii/360 profitablity ..
In a rough way, every 100 dollars taken away from the retail cost againt the fabrication costs .. is 10 dollars that sony is going to ask per game unit sold for the publishers.
PS3 has between 200-300 dollars in debit .. think how large the install base has to be. That is what he is talking about.
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You said it yourself, "Not necessary" .. doen't mean they can't offer a choice .. but really .. it's not necessary ..
In PS3 is "necessarialy" there ..
360 is more a "Show" kind of guy, PS3 is more a "Tell" kind of guy.
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Illumination, Shaders, Effects in general eat RAM not Disk Space. (*Big fingers pointing at PS3 ram*).
They could have used normal maps indeed, proceduraly.
Everything in a big city has to be done "proceduraly" .. just because it would be too much work doing each by each.. like strands of hair.
And being proceduraly, it would eat a few Kbytes each. As it probably does.
In a simple sentence: Today light/shadows doesn't come...
It's not because the lights are red that the problem is overheat .. the problem actualy is lead-free welding .. VULNERABLE to "normal" heat ..
Thx ECO guys .. first for forcing lead-free welding .. second for wanting to kill that baby panda.
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Isn't Halo a Dynamix's Tribes ripoff? at some extent.
Proofing once again that the MEDIA only loves to trash things and not give good news.. the 360 problem has been discovered AND solved ..
The deal is that near the end of the design of 360, some envoerimental law enforced them to use a % of "lead-free" welding ..
This lead-free welding deforms when under "some" heat .. making the memory chips deslocate and fail .. that is what killed 90% of Xbox360's
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He is actualy defending the hardware. Using himself and his team as escape goat.
There was no need for this statement, and it would be a lot easier to say "Our production was done under dif conditions. Every team done its best considering the points."
So, plain simple PR talk to Blu-Ray and gang.
This isn't EXACTLY the opposite to what SONY is doing?..... *just asking the obvious for sure.*
No .. No .. this one MADE my day...
Elaborate your point and tell me .. exactly HOW do this compare to the 2D to 3D transition? .. PS3 is 4D and 360 Isn't?!
I wanna see YOU return your PS3 to HIM .. got the balls?
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Also (months ago..) on XBOX360!
"Best looking games so far" ? it's pretty .. but keep the sanity bar "on" all times.
Blu-Ray only gives game Lenght .. Ram Memory Constrains the amount of detail "per scene" ..
S-E talked 3x about the White Engine on 360, in the "SquareEnix Goes Multiplataform" interview, in the Project Sylph interview and in the solid rumors about the NextGen MMO.
A: White Engine is ALREADY running on 360, accourding to S-E .. it was actualy build to make easier to make multiplataform games.
B: Sony doesn't own S-E shares anymore.. since enix bought square.
If folding @ home is so important to the world, they should made it working with PS3, Xbox360 and even Wii's GPUs.. NOT CELL as a "free" adversiment to sony. That is taking serious, not using it as marketing tool.
Not game related news.