Bitmap Frogs on 30 September 2008
| Hephaestos said: why would keeping the cell reduce game development costs??? I thought the cell was the problem there (difficult to program for) and thus keeping it keeps the problem too.... The Wii being 2 gamecubes is ok because it had the wii mote (the real upgrade in the nint console).... a PS4 being 2 PS3s would not be OK on it's own.... |
Code reusability. After a dev is done with a project they don't move all their codebase to the trash. If the architectures are the same they can reuse the code. The cell's asymmetric architecture will still be a pain in the ass but at least they'll be able to reuse their engines.
Current-gen game collection uploaded on the profile, full of win and good games; also most of my PC games. Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts 1982-2008 (Requiescat In Pace).
