alephnull on 09 March 2009
| Squilliam said: @Alephnul: MGS4 was shown demoed in E3 2005 on the Cell hardware, just PC based rather than using the PS3 architecture. So they had to have been working on it for a while. |
Maybe they actually had an experimental sample of the chip for E3 (and maybe it was BS like almost any tech demo), but I guarantee you that most of the devs behind that demo were working on a simulator. While IBM was theoretically selling Q-series blades, for the first few years you couldn't actually get one. Even groups working on cell software development at IBM -- when I was working there -- had to pretty much do all their development on simulators. This is a fact that I'm sure you can corroborate if you ask anyone else who was there at the time. You can google the compiler's unreliability.
