| Garnett said: @Procrasitnato
Thats nice that youv seen plenty games with performance of L4D2 on PS3.
But again
PS3 and PC are VERY different coding, you cant just port it over and get good results, do you really want another orange box on PS3? It was an insult to PS3 owners IMO.
You can be the best coder in the world but the more you code the less features you can put in game, if you have say 100 days till launch (i know its a bit off but still) on PS3 you will spend 60 of those days coding it so it wont lag and run decent, with no new features, no flaming ammo, no new game modes half of the campaigns, while 360 you can do all that in 60 days and polish the game.
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Sorry man, you're just plain wrong. The Orange Box port was done as cheap as possible, by a dev house who underpitched the job just so they could have work. It wasn't because it was hard -- it was because most of the money just kept that studio alive, rather than actually being invested in a serious PS3 version. It was literally a hack job, probably done by just a couple guys as fast as possible, so they could avoid not having to work fast food for a while.
Okay I went a little far there, but seriously... all that dev had to do was hire one smart engineer, that knew how to read SDK docs and samples. But they didn't. They used the garage team, because they underpitched themselves into getting the contract. They had to do it the way they did, because EA took advantage of their (business people's) stupidity... which is kinda their job, as a money-making publisher, sadly.
Orange Box PS3's badness had nothing to do with the PS3, really. It had everything to do with one company taking advantage of the other, and consumers, for a quick buck. Pretty common story, actually.
It was, after all, a port. Cutting features had nothing to do with it. The 360 and PC versions had already been made by Valve. The porting team overestimated their skillz, and underpitched their budget amidst a sea of people willing to do a decent port. EA wasn't thinking "sweet, these guys will for sure make the best port, and for cheap", they were just thinking "Woo, cheap... if it sucks... oh well.".
