@MikeB
Media Molecule devs are getting paid...
So can you now admit that more work cost more money even when they are making PS3 game? :)
"Microsoft To Give Students Dev Software For Free" (2008) This package includes XNA Game Studio, which is very high level and locked to Microsoft platforms.
Even the head of Lionhead, a company bought out by Microsoft acknowledged XNA is not the road to follow for professional games development.
There are many similar university related headlines. Maybe instead of me being paranoid maybe you are blind?
Well, why sony doesn't do this? Isn't this more like investment? And yes I have seen a lot of offers from MS, but mostly those have been for PC development. Giving visual studio for free etc. All that makes however sense and can be seen as investment. Still I haven't seen any lecture notes/class material that MS has provided.
And yes, XNA is more like a toy when compared to professional games development.
Yah, and I don't like visual studio. For me they can keep their crappy programming enviroment unless they will port it for linux, which I don't see happening soon or more likely ever.
For example Heavenly Sword, the thousands of onscreen warriors are handled by a SPU. Like the game or not, Lair's AI was running completely on a SPU.
The PPU isn't poor, if you move near all the major workload onto the SPEs, there's more than enough resources left for the PPU to handle amazing AI as well.
Instead of just saying how about showing some reliable articles that show this stuff? And I didn't mean poor as a bad, I ment more like poor thing has too much work to do while game is running.
Actually Killzone 2 dev said this,
"Also having the CELL and SPUs means we can offload all of our physics processing to an SPU, or process AI using the SPU's."
However when we look at their dev notes(yes for example that picture that has been in this thread also) their AI is/mainly is on PPU only.
More detailed article the better. I preferably article on IEEE, ACM etc.
I am a technology enthusiast, Sony could have been Philips or Panasonic, all things equal, it would not matter to me. I never owned a PS2 for example.
So taking your logic and applying it, what does Microsoft pay you?
Nothing... Actually I hate MS as they are doing terrible job in PC world with their windows & dx. I mostly use linux, because I can't really stand windows. However I still have to use windows to play games on my PC so I had to use multiboot. I am just trying to be neutral and objective in console world. Its quite hard sometimes because one side is acting like religion and demanding for me to show my side, if I happen to say that I am on neither side they just throw me into enemy list.
As I have said before I don't own any consoles and I haven't even ever owned one. I might own someday PS3 or/and WII. PS3 mostly for programming/learning purposes and WII for my GF. However I have no plans for X360, because it doesn't offer me anything.
