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alephnull on 09 March 2009
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Squilliam said:
Kantor said:

Unannounced. I'll believe it when I see it. Wasn't Resistance 2 supposed to look better than Gears 2?

His logic doesn't make much sense, but neither does your logic, because we have no proof of these unnannounced games looking better than KZ2. Of course, there are no more games being made for the GameCube, while plenty more are being made for 360.

He does have a point, though, in that despite the year advantage for MS, the best looking game so far this gen is on PS3. Partly because of four years of development, but still.

They had pre-production kits based on the Cell processor since at least early 2005, and the actually Cell since at least early 2004, and remember the PS3 was delayed so its quite likely that the Sony 1st party/2nd party devs have had access to the hardware for close to the time the Microsoft devs have with the Xbox 360 hardware. The year advantage is for sales, not for development.

There are many graphically impressive multi-plat games which perform better on the Xbox 360 than the PS3 in spite of an extensive PS3 development effort. Cue GTA IV, COD IV and RE V etc. So comparing identical games across systems gives the Xbox 360 an edge and therefore theres no definative way to call the PS3 as a whole a better/more powerful architecture because it introduces some considerable doubt into that assertion.

Lastly, Microsoft simply hasn't expended the time, money and development talent (Sony has that in spades) to make games like how Sony has. Also there simply aren't any comparable efforts that can easily be compared across platforms. Is there an open world game like Fable 2 with similar artistry on the PS3? Is there a first person shooter which has has an equivelent development effort? Is there a third person action adventure game with a similar development style to uncharted?

The actual comparable data points to Xbox 360 > PS3, the exclusives on the PS3 imply PS3 > Xbox 360 but the reality of the matter is it probably comes down to the developers with the talent and money to pull off something amazing rather than any significant overall performance differences.

 

 

Hah! The compiler didn't become non-buggy until 2007 and the initial games were almost entirely done on simulators. The Linux on cell group at IBM in 2007 couldn't get a hold of any of the chips directly and were reduced to buying PS3s.