Your technical opinion on Blu-Ray and the Cell as found in the PS3

[Sorcery]

MikeB said:

Sorcery said:
Both have been beneficial to the PS3, but only for less than a handful of games, unfortunately.

We know from Uncharted 2, MGS4, GT5, and FFXIII that Blu-Ray is beneficial, but many developers don't get the budget to stuff a game with a ton of different textures.

I think you mention some key top titles there, I don't think a game like for example Bejeweled or Braid would ever need Blu-Ray technology.

Just the top titles, especially large scale epic ones.

But we do know a lot was cut from GTA4 to still fit on 1 DVD (an open world game, not suitable for disc swapping). Thus I hope in the future games like GTA V will be PS3 exclusive and make proper use of both the Cell and Blu-Ray technologies.

It actually bothers me that just about every exclusive game from last generation is multiplatform this generation, since I think several multiplats could've seen massive improvements if they had stayed on the PS3, including GTAIV. However, I definitely understand that the industry is a business, so making multiplatform titles makes much more sense (in theory).

 

 

As an aside, I think the Cell will show its merit in almost every PS3 exclusive from this point onwards.