Yet more Carmack: PS3 has a HUGE advantage in cost per GB of large games

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Kasz216 said:

DMeisterJ said:

Also, I think the much longer development time needed for PS3 games would easily outweigh the increased licensing cost for games that need more than one disc on the 360.

Proof? Source? I mean, aside from fanboy logic.

Carmack? In the interview he said PS3 games took his team like twice the work.

So either your putting twice the manpower on it... or it's taking twice as long to make.

Either way... that equals twice the time in manpower hours.  That's what matters.  A PSN game could take just as long as uncharted... but the PSN game only has like 5 guys working on it.

Of course that's likely only true for developers that are more PC/Power arictecture friendly the Cell friendly.

Which granted is like, every developer not Sony first party. But in a lot of cases it's probably more 1.5 or 1.3 times manpower.

That's the thing though Xenon runs unoptimized code really well. PS3 doesn't. Which means... you need to spend extra time optimizing code for the PS3 version.

 

 

Yeah but how many times are you honestly going to have to do that :P Once you get the tools down for the PS3 it's just as smooth as every other console. The initial engine work is guaranteed to be a bitch and a half, but after that I could immagine much smoother sailing, it's been said by so many of the "only PS3" dev's. And like you mentioned, the PS3 doesn't run un-optimized code very well, but the 360 can read the PS3 code just fine, all the more reasons to lead with PS3 I say :P