Booth: PS3 misconceptions and spin

[sieanr]

EnosStory said:

sieanr said:

EnosStory said:
It means most programmers are not that good while the good ones will do things on PS3 that are far beyond 360s capability. Look at Ratchet and soon Uncharted, the power is being used already.

Reminds me of this;

"One very fast central processor would be preferable. I don't think all programmers have the ability to program two CPUs — most can only get about one-and-a-half times the speed you can get from one SH-2. I think that only 1 in 100 programmers are good enough to get this kind of speed [nearly double] out of the Saturn." - Yu Suzuki

 

Pointless and irrelevant.

PS3 power has already been proven and shown in games, its capability is not theoratical its reality no matter how much you want to believe otherwise. 

Just like everythign else in life, the game indistry is full of mediocracy.  Failure of people their ignorance theyir inablity to understand something new is unavoidable.

Theres a reason why a handfull of developers are so highy thought of in the industry while the rest are not.

Thats not what I was getting at...

The argument that gets tossed around when people mention that the PS3 is hard to program for is that its somehow a good thing. That this will mean only the best programmers will make PS3 games - as though this somehow ensures that the system only has good games.

Just because a game is mediocre in programming does not mean they'll make mediocre games. Take katamari, for instance; hardly a technical masterpiece, but a brilliant piece of gameplay. On the other hand, look at Factor 5 and Lair; a technical showpiece, but an awful game.

You can try to spin it to make it seem like this isn't an issue, but it is. An easy to program system allows the great developers could spend their time better by focusing on refining the engine instead of grappling with the hardware, and the less technically proficient, but highly original and creative devs can put out a decent game.

So, I think what I posted is quite relavent. The same song and dance went on during the saturn years. People tried to claim that only capable devs could program for the system, so all its games would be good. Ultimatly, it was the simpler PS that saw a larger library of quality titles, despite some of the Saturns power advantages and its higher barrier of entry that would prevent "crap" games.