| Onimusha12 said: We know the PS3 has problems, we know it is hard to develop for, we know developer after developer has cited problems in the PS3's hardware. This being said, why do PS3 supporters continue to make defenses for the hardware like there is any benefit of the doubt left to be had? Even if you could argue that the PS3 is the most perfect gaming system ever made its developers are obviously having problems with it and the games are suffering because of that. Make all the excuses and justifications you want but how many potential consumers do you think are going to buy the PS3 on the fact that it potentially could have fantastic games where as in reality it's getting gimped versions. This is a problem and blaming developers isn't going to make it a non-issue, it just means (assuming there is any validity to your argument) that Sony can't get good developers and you're going to be screwed either way. If these are problems that need to be hashed out by developers as was the case with the PS2, then don't hold your breath because the number of developers on the PS3 aren't even a fourth of those who were developing for the PS2 and the length and cost of making games for the PS3 compound the issue only further, it will be a very long time before we see the kind of turn around it took the PS2 before we started seeing developers adapting to its shortcommings. |
I don't think it will be that long of a time. It is still only 10 months since release, it's not a case of blaming developers just not blaming hardware. Of course they are still adjusting to making games for it. And if they take the line of deveoping first for PC and easier consoles, then porting to ps3, the temptation is to trim whatever doesn't fit instead of making the necessary design changes to optimize for the architecture. I think recent games look a lot better than at release, in particular some of EA's... also the market may care how many good games there are, but I care more which ones. Warhawk is about the most fun game I've ever seen bugs and all. With ps2 and psp also still in the market Sony still commands a big share, more overall than microsoft at least... ps3 will get the time it needs to reach its potential. If it takes another year, 2 years, it's still worth it.
About PS3 only having 256 MB of system RAM, noone seems to have mentioned that this is fast memory, running at 3.2 Ghz. There is more memory bandwidth in a PS3 than an xb360 whose 512MB runs at 700 mhz. Another thing that developers have to get used to working with, to deal with things like big maps in other ways than than the usual big (and slow) memory. Worth waiting for IMHO
