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Munkeh111 on 19 November 2009
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nordlead said:
dorbin2009 said:
Munkeh111 said:
Um, Uncharted 2 looks far better than all those games.... because it was only made on one platform, and nobody has really mastered the platform like them. Yes their job is made slightly easier, but who cares, I get a better game at the end of it, and from their point of view, it sells more consoles, because they are sony


Okay but what is to say that if UC2 was ported to the 360, then it would decline such a massive amount of quality that it wouldn't be worth the extra 33 million possible buyers?

Or, conversely, if Gears of War was posted to the PS3, do you honestly think the games graphics would suffer to the point of lessening sales?

The game looks great because the developers are great, not because they are the gatekeepers of Cel computing.

If UC2 was ported after the fact that it was released on PS3, it could possibly look just as good on 360. However, they wouldn't be focusing on 2 platforms at once, and instead we might see the X360 version 1 year later with a lot of effort put into it. If they were working on both at once using a multiplatform middleware solution (which is always a compromise) then they would have burned up any budget they had a lot faster (in other words more upfront investment needed). A late port has more money to work with as they already reaped profits from the original release.

I dunno if they could port it. The game was designed based around the cell, and it takes great advantage of the SPUs, so they would have to recode the entire game, and I am fairly certain it would not look that good. It only cost $20m to make Uncharted 2, which isn't too bad, and they will have already made that back, so I don't think they really need to go multiplatform to make money off the game