Eurogamer Fallout 3: Triple Format Face-Off

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Jordahn said:

rocketpig said:

Jordahn said:

rocketpig said:

heruamon said:
No surprise...360 version wins, given that PC was lead platform. This will always be the case...forever...muah!

Microsoft took an extremely intelligent approach to the 360 by integrating development alongside PC so well. PS3 fanboys may bitch about "lazy developers", but at the end of the day, MS took a developer-friendly approach whilst Sony did not.

 

SONY doesn't have a monopoly in the PC OS market like Microsoft does. See... competition is good... uh, wait a minute... something doesn't seem right here...

Microsoft certainly has an advantage through DirectX development, but your reasoning still doesn't explain away the very un-PC nature of the PS3 hardware.

 

 

I never said it explained anything, and if I were to explain anything about it, it proably wouldn't prove anything substancial anyway because it all comes down to the final product.  But I think we all can agree that Fallout 3 is one of the most ambitious projects out there.  So if the PS3 wasn't the lead platform before the 360, it would be understandable for the PS3 version to suffer from compromises as it has with past titles.  We have seen titles like COD4, Madden 09, Dirt, Burnout Paradise, Oblivion, GTA4, Eternal Sonata, Civilization, Soul Calibur 4, and Dead Sapce PS3 versions to be of equal graphical quality if not better than the 360 versions for whatever reason.  But I don't really think it's much of a hardware issue as it is with a software issue since PC's are Intel based while the 360 is PowerPC based.  So I think it the encoding that Microsft supplies because of their monopolistic dominance in the PC industry from PC to 360.  And both the PS3 and Wii are competing with Microsoft so it would be unwise for them to adopt a Microsoft based software, being at the mercy of Microsoft.  But we have seen PS3 and 360 titles to be in at least equal graphical quality when done "correctly" because this has NOTHING to do with "MS took a developer-friendly approach whilst Sony did not."  That was my point.

 

you know i had not thought about this in awhile, but back around 2001 MS bought a company that specialized in makingsoftware to run windows on powerpc (at the time what apple called G4), but due to a shift in type of powerpc chip (the G5) apple used, the acquisition was pretty much a bust, but they kept all the staff on, maybe they are using work these guys did to make the software work on that. the G5 is the base for the chip inside the 360 (the chip in the 360 had a lot of parts stripped away and really does not conform to powerpc standards ). it was also a starting point for the cell 

if MS is using these guys that would give them a tremendous heads up, the biggest obstacle that the team had before ms bought them was getting  graphics cards to work properly there was rumor on mac forums right before they were bought that the next version of the product contained that fix