TheRealMafoo on 25 August 2008
| Squilliam said: Are these games even of equal budget? Does the Forza budget equal half of the GT5 budget? Are the Killzone 2/MGS4 budgets less than twice the budget for Gears of War 2? Ditto for development times. Do these screenshots prove a more powerful machine or just one thats had a lot more money thrown at it? |
Most of the money spent on high end PS3 games was writing a framework like Direct X on the 360. Sony did not give very good tools. The PS3 requires a new way to develop, and thus the people who forge that trail are going to spend a lot more. MGS5 will most likely take far less to make then MGS4 did. As people learn how to create very distributable code, costs will go down.
Uncharted, MGS4, and GT5:p have no equal on the 360 (although uncharted might someday be surpasses). If at least one game was on par with those, then I would say it was cost.
Also, it's worth noting that games like Mass Effect and BioShock had technical problems on the 360 (popin, frame rate issues). The three I mentioned for the PS3 have none.
