MikeB said:
Wojtas said:
If the Cell was so powerful to sweep the board with gfx on par with crysis or better (as some seem to actually believe) we would already have crysis on the PS3 and any other game with such visuals a lot earlier out than now. Above all that the PS3 would cost more like 1600$, not 600$ at launch :P |
I think you are underestimating the amount of time and effort required to port legacy game engines over to the Cell's SPEs. Ever since I digged into the Cell's architecture years before the PS3 was released I understood this. Back in 2005 I publically stated it would take some time to fully adapt legacy engines and Insomniac accomplished this faster than I expected. Just because Insomniac was so quick to realize this milestone, for others it may prove to be a much more difficult task. A 600 dollar PC doesn't even run Windows Vista well enough, Windows drains a lot of system resources which could be used for games. The Cell cannot be easily compared to the cost of PC CPUs, x86 CPU have to take a lot of legacy bagage with them when advancing. The Cell is a radically different approach, that's why the Cell outperforms much more expensive PC desktop CPUs at medical research, university projects as well as with regard to mature game engine related functionality. |
You know MikeB, that may very well be the case that the PS3 is powerfull and all (still doubt that powerful enough to handle crysis, but still), but saying that it's the architecture of the console and not the HW itself that's at fault isn't really much of an excuse. If only a few dev will break the barrier of the ps3 architecture leaving the rest "in the deep forest", so to say, then what's the point? You know the facts just as well as i do, if Sony will leave the PS3 for ten years on the market just to let the devs take full advantage of it's power, sometime along the way MS and Nintendo will give out a new console that will be more powerful(gaming-wise )and at the same price if not cheaper (due to low tech costs in the future). Add to that the fact that devs will have it easier to develope games on those other systems (a possibility mind you, not a certainty) and we'll have results very fast in favour of the new consoles.
