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id Software co-founder and chief software architect John Carmack has said that the PS3 has more raw performance than the Xbox 360, but it does come at a cost: it's harder to develop for.

"Now the PS3 in particular, and this has been passed over many times over the years, but the core architectural decisions of having the cell processors versus additional symmetric processors makes life more difficult, unquestionably it’s harder to develop for those there," Carmack told Nowgamer. "You have to use a separate tool chain, the debugging is crappier, and all this. The upside of that is, there is more raw performance for computing there than there is on 360."

Still, despite being hard to develop for it's not like the days of working on the SEGA Saturn or the PS2.

"The PS3 is still far and away better than anything else that’s ever been made... except maybe the 360," he added. "It’s a great time to be a developer. It’s not like working with the SEGA Saturn or the PS2, where these are really kind of quirky, cranky, architectures that are not, well, architected, I would say."

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LOLZ I remeber when I said this, and got told it was my opinion, looks like I was right huh



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WTF? I feel like were in 2006-07 again.

Why are console comparisons between PS360 still going on?

I HATE this kind of stuff...just unproductive

and this is old.



You know how old this is?

Ontopic, Lair is gonna be the ISH when it comes out! Im getting it day one! (Since we're stuck back in 06)



Funny how this was posted a few weeks ago, but the poster took out "maybe" and took it out of context, not mentioning the "there is more raw performance for computing there than there is on 360", leaving a pro-360 spin to it. Basically he's stating that the hardware is half of equation, how easy it is to develop on is the other factor.



5 Years later and we're still going on about this...



                            

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Interesting ...

So when do you guys think MGS4 will be delayed again or is it still coming out in June?

Do you think by the end of the year America will have it's first black president?

Oh, and which will gross more this summer, Iron Man or The Dark Knight?

This year's gonna be awesome.  Year of the PS3!!!



funny how no one mentioned how old it was a few weeks ago, XD



I did post it, and I get that the topic is old, the interview is new. 

Actually the most intersting part of the interview is where he states that they have the consoles locked in at 60FPS. 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=127192&page=1&str=1600894030#