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Zones on 08 December 2008
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Comrade Tovya said:
Zones said:

I agree with most of the points you have made. I, too, was one of the people who thought PS3 is way more powerful than Xbox 360, but now, if you ask me, I'll tell you that till this day, every PS3 game is possible on Xbox 360, I think even Killzone 2/MGS4 is completely possible on Xbox 360, without any lose of quality.

But the fact of the matter is, I believe Sony's software developer are more capable to optimize their platform than Microsoft to their platform. So far, Sony is the highest quality develeper of this gen, and also, remember that 90 percent of other devs games are using Unreal Engine III, while SCE Studios need to create all these engines from ground up to the most complex platform. Now, that aside, I think from what we have seen so far, PS3's power is vague, but like I said, it's up to game developers to take advantage of the platform. and Sony has this covered.

Whatever, when I said it's way over it's time, I didn't mean just for games, if you look at the platform, it was built specifically to be future proof, like how each PS3 contains a hard drive, Blu-ray disc, and even stuff like Life With PlayStation helps for that matter. And as for multplatform games, well, they should look the same, regardless of the power or any other thing, becasue it's not the best thing to do this to those who only owns that other console. Though, I think stuffs like 'Making of' is good to be on the PS3 version due to Blu-ray.

One other thing that I'd like to point out is how different games were on the first few years of PS2 compared to 6 or 7 years after it's launch. The first few years, almost every game released was on CD, that includes ICO, Tsugunai, GT3...etc, but 7 years later, the role totally reversed. And compare the games of that to time to the later ones and you see how Sony delivered, I mean, God of War II definitely looks better than any other game on any other console last gen, so I don't know why people like JerryEastwood thinks it's hard to believe Sony since PS2, even though it was inferior, still had better looking games than it's competitor. So, again, what I am saying is, imagine 5 years from now, PS3 might be a system no one even thought of, and if that happens, then the 10 year life cycle will become reality.

 

 

Right, well, like I said, until Sony actually proves it, it doesn't mean very much.

I'm not regretful by any means for purchasing my PS3 (GT5 next year is good reason to have it anyway) I just wish that Sony would either put up or shut up when it comes to the supposed cell power of the processor.

And really, I don't think this generation really needs the high capacity Blu-ray discs.  Right now, the average game on either console is about $60.  Therefore, if developers did take advantage of the larger space of the disc for bigger games, they would almost have to charge significantly more of the extra coding, graphic work, etc it would take to fill up that space.

Playing devil's advocate though, the only thing I have seen from PS3 that would make it more "future proof" than the XBOX 360 is the larger space of the BD (assuming over the next few years developers wanted to take advantage of it).  The HDD is kind of a mute point, because a 360 is easily upgradable should the need for it arise for those people who bought the arcade.

I think I would sing a diffferent tune about this if it weren't for the fact that Nintendo bucked the standard way of thinking when they released the Wii.  It proved so much really.  HD graphics, HDD, movie playing capabilities, etc don't make a system sell better.  In all actuality, they seem to have been helped by not including those things.  (of course, I have the Wii too along with the PS3 & 360, so I guess I win no matter what happens).

Either way, Sony needs to release a game that really shows the cell power, because if they wait too long, people will say "wow, that's nice, but I already own a 360".  Not everyone is like me and buys every console released every generation.  I think the average consensus is that you can buy a Wii (the innovative system) and a 360 (the HD system) for about the same price as a PS3 alone.

I don't think it's necessary for Sony to just release a game that uses 100 percent of PS3 with every possible trick on it, they should make the games evolve gradually like last gen, but I agree that they should have a higher standard than Xbox 360 games by now.

As for BD 's necessity, I think it is necessary, but the main problem to Sony is that this gen, third parties aren't going the same route as last generation, so only first party games and few third party exclusive games can take advantage of it, again DVD need few years to be a necessity, so I think Blu-ray needs a little more to get into that level.

Wii...Well I am not gonna say much about Wii now, but what I think, it's Mattel Inc, and MGA Entertainment that should be afraid of Wii rather than Sony and Microsoft. Wii is definitely not competing, even though they are on the same market.

Also, I have to disagree with you on the HDD thing for Xbox 360 Arcade, becasue if 20 percent of the Xbox 360 owners own that version, then no dev can make something that takes advantage of the core units' hard drive, so in my opinion, Microsoft should've been smart and included at least a gig or two on every Xbox 360.