Kaz: We don't program the easy to develop for console that developers want

[disolitude]

Darc Requiem said:

disolitude said:
Saturn was technically more powerful than the PS1.

However no one bothered to push its limits since it didn't sell well. Its a big gamble in my opinion. If PS3 sells a ton, devs will maybe take the time to learn the tricks to push its limits otherwise it will never get there.

Disolitude, you are on a roll today. You make an excellent point. I was going to point out the Saturn as well. Grandia took 5 years to develop on Saturn and the PS1 version only took 18 months. The graphics AM2 pulled off in the unreleased Virtua Fighter 3 port and Shenmue (Saturn) were far beyond what the PS1 was capable of. Unfortunately, the complexity of the architecture turned off developers and they went with the path of least resistance which was the PS1.

 

 Indeed. the vids movies of those games stand as proof of what Saturn could do. Didn't really work out for Sega though... Ps3 seems to be suffering a similar fate. Quick and dirty ports...