Insomniac is a 2nd party dev. They don't share their code with other devs, because their tech belongs to them, and if they handed it out without Sony paying them for it (i.e. buying them), that'd be... mighty silly of them. Sony owns the finished product, but they couldn't re-use the source code without permission from Insomniac.
The reverse, however, is true -- the 1st party devs (ND, Guerrila, Zipper, SD, etc.) are basically required to share their tech with e...
Both of ND's games (graphics in general), Guerrilla's game (lighting), SM's game (graphics, MLAA), Zipper's game (sheer volume of work) all utilized the PS3 in ways that no other devs have really come close to, IMO.
Hopefully, this comment is Insomniac indirectly stating that R3 will be downright stellar. Their work is good, but I wouldn't call them the masters of the PS3 just yet.
This lineup isn't very compelling. I bought a Wii for this kind of stuff, and don't care for it on my 360.
Also, my livingroom is just too small to fit my entire self on that limited angle camera, and be able to move around much. Even if I wanted a game like Dance Central, I don't think I could play it. With the Move, I have enough room (for most games -- Sports Champions is a close fit). With the Wiimote, I have enough room. Kinect... no.
Microsoft stated that the budget was larger than that of the console launch itself, in the article, didn't it?
No self-respecting gamer should be happy about this. PS3 fan, 360 fan... doesn't matter.
IMO, no MS stockholder should be happy about this, either. This kind of financial folly could literally kill the XBox brand, via shareholder anger. This expenditure will get thrown directly against holiday quarter profits in the report -- it'll make this holiday season look like a big loser, rather than a big winner, and shareholders are *extremely* short-sighted.
@above: Nice links, comparing just the PPE to modern processors, with theoretical numbers that like to pretend that cache misses, and cache sharing, aren't a problem.
How about you break out a real-world performance test -- like Folding@Home, that actually suffers from things like cache coherency problems on non-Cell CPUs, and take a good look at real world performance.
A Cell design that used the same number of transitors as the i7s that beat it (barely...
What a laughable article.
The PSP's upcoming title list blows the 3DS's release titles out of the water, and its "on its last legs"?
Give me a break.
Meerkat... only the most expensive CPUs, we're talking > $500 i7s, outperform the Cell.
That's just the CPU required for this "cheap" computer you're imagining.
GPUs, sure, you can best the RSX with a $100 card.. by a little. But then that's another $100. Memory, HDD, so on, so on.
No cheap PC can best the consoles, unless by "cheap" you mean 3-4x as much as the consoles cost.
3rd party is really important to the hardware manufacturers.
Even on the Wii, Nintendo probably makes near $30 gross revenue on each full-price, 1st party game sold, and makes $4-8 off each 3rd party game sold, via licensing fees that they charge the 3rd parties for the right to put those games on their hardware.
On top of that, only the 1st party titles have cost-of-goods and development costs to offset Nintendo's income from them. The 3rd parties pay t...
These are the ugliest,most unrealistic mockups I have ever seen. And why are most of them handhelds?
Also, #7 is the actual original XBox (the first one, not the 360) design concept, until they realized the space limitations were so wierd, that it was not realistic. I kid you not.
It's like these journalists just write sensationalistic articles without bothering to check the actual news first.
Next we'll have Kinect outselling the Wii in the first month, Microsoft buying Nintendo, and Kudo Tsunoda taking over Reggie's job.
I always get a LoL out of "next Wii will be more powa than PS3/360!" when such a machine would *still* cost $400 or more to produce.
Look at the DS. Look at the Wii. Look at the 3DS.
Since when does Nintendo sell hardware for anything but a MAJOR profit?
If the Wii HD releases next year, it'll probably still be less powerful than a PS3, due to cost and profit margins -- it might be close, but better... no way.
I noticed that as well. Almost every review of the game has noted the PS3's superior framerate, and yet LoT downplays it... like usual.
I think that, if the framerate on PS3 Bayonetta had been better, it would have been much more memorable.
Hack n Slash action games do pretty well on the PS3, compared to the 360. Its a real shame Platinum didn't put the time into making the PS3 version shine. I almost didn't buy it myself (I dislike the 360 controller for action games -- so I buy exclusively PS3 for that genre) for that reason, and I own basically every game even remotely like it, both good and medi...
Every game developer would love to do that. They aren't "allowed" to, because their publishers won't pay for it. They'd have to start a small studio, and self-publish, to do it instead.
Publishers don't like risks, and games are too expensive to make "indie movie" style. You pretty much need 4-10 people at a minimum, unless you have years to burn on the project by yourself. The games biz is brutally competitive these days -- most people...
This guy must play games non-stop basically 24 hours every day. Shared account, almost certainly.
I think it might be physically impossible for a single human being to have accrued that many points in the 5 years since the 360's release. That's a full game achievement completion once every 3 days.
Even with walkthroughs, there's no way a single person could finish that many games, that fast. At least... not one with a job, or a need to get outs...
I'm pretty excited about this, but...
Honestly I use Wii Netflix almost all the time. Its simple, yeah, but the Wii only uses like 18W, whereas my launch PS3 uses like 250W. Also, my net connection sucks. I can't get better than SD bandwidth anyhow. Plus, it makes me feel like my Wii is useful. ;)
If I had a new slim, I might use this awesome PS3 version though.
Well... you do. And of course you have to pay for Netflix as well.
MS won't support folding @ home on the 360, and I'll tell you why:
The TFLOPs fact reports like this one.
A task like protein folding is something the Cell processor is exceptionally good at (as you can see from the numbers) -- and the 360 would look weak, in comparison, despite its being a decent games console.
MS will never, ever, do something that would make the 360 look markedly inferior to the PS3. Like having folding@home. Doe...
Why is Zipper 2nd? TBH, MAG's tech impresses me more than the tech of every other dev on your list. Their production values may not be as high, but as far as tech goes, I'd put Zipper at an easy #1. 256 guys on maps the size of Texas with no lag and a good framerate even with dozens of guys, gunfire, explosions onscreen at once?