Insomniac's Brian Hastings speaks out on the PS3

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Soulxxx said: You're saying the Wii will have killer apps... How can they kill with lame graphics? Have you seen Marble Mania?? OMG. The graphics are ok for such title, but is it really worth a purchase??? Is it a Killer App?? I don't know... I do know that whatever killer apps you're talking about will probably also make an appearance on the PS3 or 360 first, and with the killer graphics and the fact that there are more GRAPHICS WHORES than GAMEPLAY whores out, I think they will sell better to the GRAPHICS WHORES.

I'd be willing to bet there are fewer graphics whores than gameplay whores. The only video game battle won by the console with the best graphics was the SNES, and that was the smallest victory ever. (better graphics systems second) Atari vs Intellivision = Atari, NES vs. Master System = NES, PS vs N64 = PS, PS2 vs Xbox/GC = PS2, Gameboy vs Game Gear = Gameboy, DS vs PSP = DS. I had the same attitude when the Playstation was beating the N64. PS games looked terrible next to N64 ones and I thought gamers were stupid for playing such an inferior product, but the PS still beat the N64. Cool to see the shoe is finally on the other foot . You are right though, the PS3 is the system for graphics whores, the Wii is for everyone else, and the everyone else market is much larger than the graphics whore market. I don't know how many killer aps really come along for any system but the Wii does have a strong lineup over the next year. Not just from Nintendo for a change. The Wii is a little gimmicky at the moment since no AAA Nintendo title is out yet and 3rd party people are still learning the ropes of motion controls. The DS had even worse problems with its dual screen touch pad set up initially and we see how that turned out. The best selling, and I'd say funnest, games out there right now are on a system that outputs in 256 x 192. Not even close to 480p much less 1080 . I read through Hastings comments and they are what one would expect from someone whose livelihood depends on the PS3 dong well. He isn't some unbiased dev at EA or Ubisoft (even they wouldn't be unbiased just less biased) but even so some of his comments can be taken at face value and have been shot down elsewhere on this thread. For example, people aren't buying the Cell anymore than people bought an EE or RSP, they are buying video game systems. Most of the market (I'd wager over 80% maybe over 90%) has no clue what Cell is. Developers mostly care about install base and until the PS3 shows any potential of moving out of 3rd place in the real world and not just in the fevered imaginations of Sony fanboys resources will continue their drift over to the Wii and 360 (despite the lack of Cell).