The better console for value.

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joshin69 said:
Mendicate Bias
I think you may be wrong on that one. How much difference was there between the first games released on the xbox and the last? not a huge difference. And difference between the first games on the PS2 and the last? Very noticeable. The same will happen with the PS3 and 360. Devs will find and have said that the 360 is easy to code for and end up getting a high end of capability out of it. The PS3 is renowned as a bitch to code, as the PS2 was. Still it will be a while yet before devs really learn to ring the neck out of the PS3.

While that observation about the last gen is correct, I think it's also misleading. When the last gen started, console developers had almost no experience with 3D engine programming, which is one of the reasons why there was such a big difference between the initial and later PS2 games.

In this gen, the best 3D programmers have already had a few years solid to work on the PS3, and the learning curve is only based on the hardware, not 3D engine programming itself which eluded many console developers in 2001.