NoCtiS_NoX said: Source: http://www.gamersmint.com/ps3-has-tight-memory-poor-io-performance-john-carmack
RAGE has been criticized on all platforms since its launch on October 4th, especially the PC version of id Software’s shooter. John Carmack, technical director of the game’s developer, has now said the studio can’t improve the PlayStation 3 ‘s performance much more, as well as saying the platform has ‘tight memory’ and poor ‘IO performance’. Speaking via Twitter in a response to a player who said:
To which Carmack replied:
This isn’t the first time Carmack has talked negatively about the PlayStation 3. The industry veteran has previously said Sony’s platform is the second best console ever made, with the best being the Xbox 360 he believes. Additionally, he’s also said while the Xbox 360 version matches the PC’s 60 frames per second, the PS3′s had once been 20-30, but it’s since become 60. He expanded on the matter:
The legendary developer has been under a lot of scrutiny and undoubtedly pressure from gamers after the problem-riddled launch of RAGE; it released to a horrid PC launch that saw a slew of problems players had to face. An update has been released to rectify the problems but it doesn’t get rid of the game’s shaky launch. While we’re on the topic of the PC version of RAGE, Carmack tweeted:
The developer also commented on the higher-resolution texture pack for RAGE’s PC version:
Furthermore, the game is so large in terms of depth, scope and breadth that its PlayStation 3 install size weighs in at a whooping 8GB. Oh, and gamers will have to install it – yep, it’s mandatory. The Xbox 360 version of the shooter, meanwhile, comes in three disks with an optional 22GB installation. iD’s last shooter RAGE released earlier this month for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
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The underlined part is interesting. So far nearly every developer who commented the spec of the consoles has said the CPU is way better performace wise, while the GPU of the Xbox 360 is better than the RSX, which about equals the overall console performance. Now he's says the CPUs are the same? I call BS.
updated: 14.01.2012
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bet with Mordred11 that Rage will look better on Xbox 360.