| Squilliam said: Does Cry Engine 3 run better on PS3? All I heard was that in some areas the PS3 version ran better, animation bla bla bla, and some areas the 360 ran better, things like shaders etc. Your Ferrari analogy is flawed, because people would still buy more Accords at $20k than Ferraris at $20k. Ferraris are unreliable, they cost a lot to insure and maintain and the car itself isn't special if everyone can buy one, also the Ferrari is completely impractical with no boot space, seating for two etc. Furthermore it would chew through at least twice as much gas. Lastly the PS3 is no ferrari, at best its a V6 optioned Camry, people who want absolute performance don't buy PS3s they are slow and mediocre compared to what you can buy when money is no object. Tell me what incredible games has the PS3 had that set the market ablaze with envy? Aside from Metal Gear Sold 4 I can't think of a single one that was exclusive to the PS3. The Xbox 360 has had Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Halo 3 exclusives two 5M+ sellers and one which almost hit 10M. MGS4 hasn't hit 5M copies sold, and you can measure the impact on the market by units moved. Move units and you've moved the market, move critics without that market support and all you get is a critics circle jerk. The really big games which have moved units have all been multiplat so yes Sony has failed here thus far. As for Valve, they make games for two platforms already. They have their main PC platform and their Xbox 360 side business. Should I now go and say how Sucker Punch, Insomniac, Kojima productions are lazy because they only target one platform instead of two? If you want to talk about how Valve took cheap shots at the PS3, fine but how long is the list of exclusive developers for the PS3 who have also talked smack? So they've looked at the architecture and decided that its not worth the trouble for them, so what? At least its better than developers who've never touched a 360 development kit saying 'only possible on the PS3'. It doesn't matter if Xbox 360 games come to the PS3 a year later. The damage is already done if any damage was to be done and since you're a late adopter you're paying $60 when someone could get the same game on the 360 for half to a third of the price. Also those games have a habit of disappearing quickly and never dropping in price because they don't sell. Its paper support, the reality is very different. Those games like GTA IV, Assassins Creed etc were all tipped to be great games to help the PS3 defeat the Xbox 360. People remember those stupid statements and then the payback is reaped. Remember GTAIV is a 5M+ selling game on both platforms, of course people will remember its lost exclusivity as a crippling blow to the PS3, because it WAS. |
http://www.psu.com/Crytek--CryEngine-3-will-run-slightly-better-on-PS3-News--a006807-p0.php
I can guarantee you that if money was no object, the PS3 would be outselling the 360 (evidenced by when the PS3 got it's price cut to $400 and was outselling the 360) and that there'd be nothing but high end cars on the road and never some mid-70s beater you bought from some redneck's backyard.
The PS3 doesn't need a 5M+ seller to have a good game. Valkyria Chronicles sold 500k. Mario and Sonic sold 6M. Mario and Sonic is the best game, confirmed?
And once again with the knock on Insomniac and Sucker Punch. What part of "2nd party" don't you get. What part of "Sony funds our games" don't you get. They've built a lasting relationship after many, many years of working together. As for Kojima, #1 he's already stated that with MGS4, he had a vision for the game. A vision that he knew he wouldn't meet on the 360 (being the perfectionist that he is)...and even didn't meet on the PS3. But the PS3 had the most going for that vision, which is why he made it for the PS3. Kojima still has a little thing called honor and dignity, and doesn't go back on his word. Valve? "The PS3 is too hard". End of story for them.
As for developers saying "only possible on PS3". Some of that is hogwash, yes. But most of the time, true. There are some things that can only be done with a Quad Core extreme, as opposed to some cheap AMD processor. But since a dev only works on the Quad...they don't know what they're talking about, and it's just gibberish?
And I never said those games weren't a big loss. What I said is that the majority of people see that since a game like GTAIV went multi, the PS3 is pointless. "How many exclusives will the PS3 lose?" is always the game. Some people even have it in their sigs on this site. But when it's the other way around, and the 360 lost exclusivity of Bioshock, ToV, Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Eternal Sonata, etc...it gets overlooked. A great game is a great game, and it doesn't matter when it comes out. If it's available to the consumer, how is "the PS3 has no games" relevant (I know that people don't say this on this site, but I'm talking about irl). I've even had a friend tell me that the PS3 is a "terrible system for gaming" because of the way things have gone for the 360. That wasn't because the PS3 is actually a terrible gaming system, but because of the stigma of lost exclusives (and price isn't helping either). Now the 360 losing exclusives is always downplayed or damage controlled....
