Exclusives hurt Gamers and Developers

[Nidan]

TheRealMafoo said:

Nidan said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Nidan said:

I disagree that GeOW and MSG4 couldnt looks as impresive if made for the Xbox360.

And this is why you made this post. If you didn't think they could look as impressive, you would agree Exclusives have there place.

I will be very generic, and take the consoles out of the equation. Let's say I gave you a set of tools to build a house. In one set I gave a miter saw to, and in the other I gave a plainer.

If I told the two crews to build me the best house they can, where they both look identical, they woudl each build a worse house then if I said "use all the tools at your disposal, and build me the best house".

Same applies with video games.

But my thinking is both of them are 10" circular saws, but just different brands.  The RPM/ power consumption/ shape / materials used / copper wire thickness etc are different, but they effectively perform the same function, but here we have a scenario where we have the buy the blade which goes with the saw.

A plainer and a miter saw have completly different functions

 

 

 

The floating point math in the PS3 is over 10 times faster then the floating point math in the 360. The size of the media is diferent in each. The speed of the media is different in each. The PS3 grantees a hard drive. The 360 does not. The 360 has 512 meg of ram to use however you like, the PS3 limits 256 for video and 256 for main memory.

In no way are the tools avaialble on these two boxes the same.

Yes, and the 2 saws are different, one uses steel with 10x more silicon, while the other uses lower grade steel but a lot more of it and is heavier but they both still are a 10" saw.

There is no reason why middleware developers or engineer develops CANNOT make optimizations of each system in the same way that Intel has MMX, HT optimisation or Amd 3Dnow optimisations. The issue is that currently, developers are still looking at ways of getting the best performance out of both systems

Middleware does just that " it allows the developers to make games independant of if it is an Xbox or a PS.