killzone 2 uses only 60% of ps3 SPUs

[MikeB]

kungfusqurrel said:

MikeB said:

kungfusqurrel said:
why didnt they use 100 percent, what a bunch of half assers. and how many years is killzone 2 in production now? oh yea 4 years or ever since ps3 debuted.

 

Too much perfomance headroom, the PS3's Cell has 8 processors. Moving legacy code over to the SPEs or writing new far more modernly designed tech from scratch takes time.

God of War 2 wasn't build in a day and neither was Rome.

@ others

I agree Killzone 2 is way beyond Gears 2's league, this can easily be judged without having completed that game.

Also Killzone 2's environments are bigger, also Killzone 2 supports 32 online players while Gears 2 is 10 online players max (2 more than Gears 1).

 

lol, i just dont think a game should take like 4 years to develop, you and i know thats like almost half of  a consoles life, what next another 3-4 years for kilzone 3? i understand that pretty games take time but gears of war 2 look pretty and only took like 2 years to makes ever since gears 1 came out 2 years ago, yes gears have less players on multi play but resistance2 have like how many and didnt take 4 years to develop, all i'm saying is that i hope the next killzone dont take as long.

The original God of War took 3 years to develop. It takes time to create amazing games. BTW, God of War 2 only took 2 while taking the game well further technically as well as assets wise.

If aiming for the same quality, a Killzone 3 taking Killzone 2 assets (re-using much) and Killzone 2's game engine a new game could be made much cheaper and take less time to develop. More likely though is that they are going to enhance the game engine further (considering the huge technical headroom) and in addition create new even better looking and sounding assets, this based on lessons learnt from their first PS3 game. A bit like God of War 2 vs God of War 1 on the PS2.