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theprof00 on 10 October 2012
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biggamejames79 said:
theprof00 said:
biggamejames79 said:
ps3 seems more powerful until you try to play Fallout 3/NV or Skyrim on it, then it seems like cheap/faulty/difficult to program for hardware. It has some great games, but "power" isn't everything. Wii was the top dog in the 7th gen and it's the least powerful, not even in HD.

Those aren't examples of cheap/faulty/difficult to program for. Those are examples of what happens when you make shitty ports of games.

Bayonetta devs Platinum, for example apologized profusely for outsourcing teh ps3 port and not developing it themselves. This is simply what happens when you're a dev and you do a bad job.

That's true, and that also may be why a lot of multi-plat games look better on the 360 compared to the ps3.  There's a lot more to a systems value than "power".  I've read that the ps3 has a stronger cpu but the 360 has a better gpu, meaning the graphical power of the 360 is higher than ps3's.  I understand people's desire to have the most powerful system since we all want to see amazing graphics, but from what I've seen there's not enough of a difference between the ps3 & 360 for anyone to brag about one over the other.  If graphics mattered that much, we'd only play pc.  Maybe fanboys are like sports fans, I back my teams no matter what, maybe people back companies in the same way.

From what I can tell, it's not that ps3 is under-specced. Some of the exclusives have shown what kind of power the ps3 has under its hood.

The problem I believe comes from the way processing is handled. I think that for a system like 360 and PC, the video processing is handled by the GPU, whereas the PS3 has a portion of processing done by the CPU (1 or 2 cores is dedicated to video processing). So, if you take the same code, and just slap it into the system, it will take longer to process or there will be graphic artifacts because while you could be using the CPU cores to do processing work, you're not.

There's also a lot of questions on what exactly should you have the cpu process. In that way, perhaps it IS a good example of difficult to develop for, but a lot of developers have said that ps3 has an untapped power that most other companies are not pursuing simply because they'd rather just port and box it up.

At least that's what I've been lead to believe is happening.

360 handles graphics in a traditional way, ps3 in an alternative way.

I'm not sure why Sony went for that route, but I'd say that it has to do with balance of some kind. The cpu is more flexible, so if your game is not gfx intensive, then you can devote the cores to regular processing, and if it is, you can be clever and put a lot of power into the cpu.

I THINK.

Some of the more experienced techies here might be able to help with the question. I may have it completely wrong.
Oh, I also heard there is a bottleneck in the RAM, but I'm not sure how it factors into the technicals I just mentioned, like, whether it's really so important or not.