| iLLmaticV3 said: I believe the Sony Playstation 3 Computer Entertainment System is a very powerful beast. Within the next year or two we are going to see games that completely showcase how powerful the system is. God of War 3 and Heavy Rain being two of them. Uncharted 2 already raised the bar also. |
Luckily with technology belief is minimized. And it's a fact that they could have had the same power in a chip that didn't piss everyone off.
I own a ps3 and I would be so pissed to program for it. I linked phrack - oh yeah, most video gamers have an illusion of technical knowledge supported by buzzwords. The fact is in order execution cores like those in the xbox or ps3 strain developers enough. Having to further optimize code over 6 processors makes optimization needlessly complex.
In my comp hardware course years ago a student asked the prof if he should write something in a convoluted manner that saved a little bit of programming time. The prof immediately told him that he should write it clearly and the compiler would optimize it. Writing it clearly was much more valuable for the next guy who worked on it and the complier takes care of the minor optimization.
Turns out this gen of consoles threw out the common assumptions programmers have made for years and placed a larger burden of optimizing command orders on them. Then Sony further screws developers by making a parallel processor so complicated it's horrific. I love my ps3 but I would hate programming it. The reason multiplats suffer is only developer studios that Sony throws money at can afford to waste their time figuring it out.
And they could have just put a faster x86 chip in there instead. Perhaps more than 512mb of ram (this limitation is why the console versions of oblivion have unarmored horses while it's present on the PC). Or a better GPU. And it would have run just as well if not better! For the price of the launch ps3 you could have built a mid-high end gaming pc that murdered it!
Hey look, exclusive developers sony throws money at make great games. Those multiplat guys might be able to keep up if they could afford spending extra time and effort on overly complicated development for the cell. Who would waste their time like that to reach a smaller market than either of the two other consoles? Sony's arrogance this gen is appalling.
