PS3 is Not More Powerful than Xbox 360, says game Dev!

[Naraku_Diabolos]

NinjaKido said:

WereKitten said:
He's saying a few known things: the 360 GPU is specced higher than the PS3's, and the PS3's BluRay has a lower transfer rate than the 360's DVD.
But he's also glossing about the parallel offloading to the SPUs on the PS and being a bit limited in his vision, probably because of the techniques he's most familiar with.

As an example: the BluRay is slower and still both Uncharted and Killzone 2 managed to stream huge quantities of data with barely noticeable hiccups and loading times.

As for the technicalities: for what I know the two GPUs have the same fillrate until you put multisampling AA in the picture. Then the 360's pulls ahead because it's implemented in hardware, but I think you can do the same on the PS3 using shaders and the SPUs.

As for the shaders he's only right about the fillrate on the 360 being higher if it can use more than 32 out of 48 pipelines (unified architecture). That means less vertex shaders, of course, whereas the PS3 has a fixed fill rate and a fixed vertex rate. You can dynamically adapt better on the 360, but the advantage is far from the 2x factor in most cases. And again, he is not thinking about using the SPUs for both vertex and pixel shading.

In the end he has given his informed opinion, but he comes off as a bit entrenched in a PC-centric (CPU(s)+GPU) view of what makes a powerful machine for games development, thus I understand that he finds the 360 more powerful.

 

How many times has that been debunked ?

 

http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/profile/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=23916169&user=skektek

 

"a game developer who has worked on both Guitar Hero games and Rock Band,"

Please , GTFO ?

"PS3 is Not More Powerful than Xbox 360, says game Dev!"

 

I'd seriously like him to proove it , there's developers that say the PS3 is more powerful , others that say the 360 is more powerful and some that say they are pretty much the same. Well i'll believe what I can see on my TV screen and it seems to indiciate to me that , individualy (Killzone 2) and cummativley ( Uncharted ,Ratchet & Clank, GT5 , Killzone 2, MGS4 ) the PS3 holds the title , what good is it being theoreticaly powerful if that potential isn't realised ?

 

 

I believe the developer from the first post was talking about multi-platform titles for making/porting games on. It seems to anyones belief that when a developer is making an exclusive for a system, they can utilize the full potential of the system to make a great game. Only developers that work closely with Sony are able to pull off most of the techniques that multi-platform developers would have trouble pulling off. This is why that when Killzone 2 was mentioned with little to no hiccups, it may because GG looked at the hardware specs and analyzed what and how they could use the system effectively.

Usually third-parties will have a tougher time to make the games balanced/equal for the content they can deliver visually and through audio. It is like putting weights on a scale and you have to even it out, is what I'm saying.