Wheelman Dev say "The PS3 is a huge pain in the ass"

[joeorc]

TheBigFatJ said:

heruamon said:

"The politically incorrect answer is that the PS3 is a huge pain in the ass. Anyone making a game, if you're going to make it for both [360 and PS3], just lead on the PS3 because if it works on the PS3 it'll work on 360."

This is a good point.  It's also worth mentioning that the Xbox 360 has more general purpose CPU time and much more fill rate than the PS3, allowing you to do extra lighting passes or better filtering compared to the PS3 version.

that's not 100% completely true.

if you are going by just PPE's yes the xbox360 has more general purpose CPU time , by if you were just useing the PPE's of both machine's, but as you may not know the Cell CPU has SPE's which are also general purpose core's in of them selves. that can also be used. but that it's also going to be thing's those 3 cores do in general purpose application's that are better suited in some thing's but other's the SPE's would be worse in but better at than the 3 Core's in the xbox360.

AND FOR Fill rate once again it's still depend's on what you are trying to do. if say you only need 8 character's on screen at one time your fill rate will be faster with a larger ammount of ram in a pool. but slower with a lower ammount of pool. the 512 MB of shared pool compared to the ps3's 256 that the Main GPU has. but if you take into consideration if you are trying to do more thing's on screen at once, but with a secondary GPU that can remove the compute function's light lighting, particle effect's and physic's on the other GPU ie: the Cell processor in the PS3 as an example, that mean's the Main GPU is less taxed. so it can do what it does best and that is DRAW

this of course along with experience, and time go to give the developer result's for their effort's.

the hardware can help or hinder in some cases, and cause some hair pulling.... but's it's problem's all developer's face.