Developers Shift To Leading On PS3!

[MikeB]

Chrizum said:

MikeB said:
@ Chrizum

There are important differences between games consoles and PCs. Wanting a powerful console does not mean people should buy a PC, neither does wanting a powerful handheld console mean people should get a PC, neither does wanting a more powerful smartphone mean people should get a PC, neither does wanting a more powerful car mean people should get a PC, etc.

So it's about the games, right? And not the power of the hardware?

It's a combination of many different aspects.

Sure the PS3 sees a lot more high budget exclusive game releases than the PC does nowadays.

There are some crucial system power related advantages to making games on the PS3. First of all you know that every PS3 has basically the same system configuration. This means you can fully utilize the hardware and perform as much specific optimisations as you require. On the PC this is not the case, so many different configurations to take into account and the best selling PC games are actually designed to run well enough on pretty basic configurations.

Sure a PC can be upgraded with way extra memory or a more moden GPU, but it does not beat the PS3 in every regard. For example the Cell processor in terms of true performance can beat the best quad core PC CPUs out there. Also PC games aren't using Blu-Ray discs, with regard to storage capacity there are advantages on the PS3 as well.

The end user experience is also very different and usually a PC is less suitable for living room usage for many people. Different tools for different purposes.

For example with a PS3 you can easily connect 4 dual shock 3 controllers and start a game like LittleBigPlanet to play with friends. From many different perspectives a games console is usually a far more elegant solution than using a Windows PC regarding multi-media playback and gaming.