| MikeB said: Overall I would say the PS3 is considerably more powerful than the XBox 360, but you will see this benefit mainly in PS3 exclusive games. Current XBox 360 ports to the PS3 may run worse because the game engines often haven't been modified enough to take good use of the PS3's SPEs, these SPEs are the main reason why the PS3 is overall considerably more powerful. Also the PS3 has the advantage of massive Blu-Ray storage, but in general this benefit will and has only really manifested itself in PS3 exclusive games, as for a XBox 360 game it's best to keep the game size down to fit on a single layer DVD as the drive slows down considerably while reading a dual layer one and game companies will do their best not to ship multiple discs, Blue Dragon being an exception. |
Point 1) Considerably more powerful than the xbox?? I think you must be listening to SONY PR a tad too much, most tech guff I have read is generally 50/50 some say sony more, some say xbox, some say about the same.
You are correct about engines not working correctly, generally 3rd party devs will make a quick buck early in a console lifetime. (See ubisoft)
Point 2) Why is it people are so affraid of multiple disks?? Yes ok, it costs more, I guess DVD's cost about 20c? to make?, maybe 1$ at most (pressed etc). And c'mon after 7 hours playing your going to say its a pain to change dvd?, In FF7, it took me ages to pass the first CD, and I had to change the cd multiple times due to me playing other games, I dont ever recall complaining.
I'd say companies will attempt to not ship multiple disks, but wont go out of their way. They wont be like OMG its on 2 dvd's, time to cut out the middle part of the game. (Although it *WOULD SUCK* for them if they where just over the dvd limit hehe)
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