PS3 Has “Tight memory, Poor IO Performance” – John Carmack

[brendude13]

Rainbird said:

brendude13 said:
I think the reason why people, including me, have an issue with John Carmack's constant PS3 complaining is that he is making excuses for why RAGE isn't the graphics king. Every week I see him complaining about the PS3's memory and architecture, we've heard it all before. Until he makes a game that looks better than Uncharted 3, or whatever you think is the best looking console game, then he can shut the fuck up.

It's like comparing apples to oranges. Show me the open world game with as much detail as RAGE's that runs at 60 FPS on consoles. It doesn't exist.

And he's only complaining because he's being asked. It even says in the OP that Carmack responded to a player over twitter who had asked him why the PS3 version didn't run better.

From what I've seen, RAGE isn't a very good looking game, it runs well, but how it looks is a different story. The textures looks low res, the models lack detail, the colour scheme is muddy and the game lacks lighting and shadow effects.

I will give it credit for handling huge, open environments.

It's fair enough that somebody asked him, but he could have just ignored them, rather than making blunt comments every week about how terrible the PS3's architecture is and why it's the reason the reason that the PS3 version isn't as good (which I'm confused about, the LensofTruth analysis was extremely close).