MikeB on 20 May 2008
@ TheBigFatJ
So you are contending that you can add a TB drive to a PS3, after telling me its a standardized platform?
Yes, developers know what to expect with regard to the most basic PS3 hardware configuration. A hardrrive and a predictably constant speed Blu-Ray drive for streaming purposes or doing a mimimal install for the most read speed critical data, a Cell processor, a RSX (a modified G71 for working hand in hand with the Cell), known minimal system bandwidth, etc.
Maybe long time PC developers can explain some things I was referring to better than me:
Developer Bethesda will release Fallout 3 on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 this autumn, but the game maker concedes that the complexity of the format; the unclear nature of system specifications, has left the PC lagging behind consoles.
"In general I think PC gaming still suffers from the fact that it is one platform, and 10,000 platforms, at the same time," he explained.
"The fact that you could get 100 gamers together and every single one has a different PC config, whether it's the hardware they have, or the drivers they have installed for that hardware, is still a problem from a development standpoint and one that has never, really, been solved."
"There is something to be said about having a console and having it being able to play anything, and not having to screw around with video settings and stuff."
"What do you think of the state of the relationship between PC gaming and console gaming? Is console gaming taking away the PC gamers? I hear a lot of developers say, like you just said, hey, we're console gamers now"
"In general I think PC gaming still suffers from the fact that it is one platform, and 10,000 platforms, at the same time," he explained.
"The fact that you could get 100 gamers together and every single one has a different PC config, whether it's the hardware they have, or the drivers they have installed for that hardware, is still a problem from a development standpoint and one that has never, really, been solved."
"There is something to be said about having a console and having it being able to play anything, and not having to screw around with video settings and stuff."
"What do you think of the state of the relationship between PC gaming and console gaming? Is console gaming taking away the PC gamers? I hear a lot of developers say, like you just said, hey, we're console gamers now"
