I would say Lair does look 10% better then Infamous at this point, if not even more.

Basically I think he's admitting that they're not trying to push the graphical-limit with their game. It will probably be more gameplay and storyline driven. But by telling you their game (which will look great) is only using 30%, of the PS3's power it gives you an idea of where development on the PS3 could lead.  There is still alot of time before they'll hit the ceiling so to speak.

Of course ,you know way better that the damned developer of the game ....

The point with the N64 is that they had to change internal chip microcode to improve the graphics.
This guy is talking about the SPU's, since it is multicore i don't expect 100% is the limit. More something like 60-70%, it is incredibly difficult to have a near perfect multicore application. Even the smallest change in code can decrease preformance big time.

But beware of those numbers, with the N64 you had plain ugly games like daikatana where levels were probably made up with 30k polygons and ugly,ugly textures. So every improvement made it look way better. This won't be happening with the PS3, nor with the Xbox or Wii.
I'm not a GPU expert, but both the Xbox360 and PS3 are made around a similar graphics core and memory map. So in the end i don't expect huge differences.

People can quite easily accept that FFXIII is only 13% complete yet cannot believe that Infamous only utilises around 30% of the power of the PS3?????

I think I would quite easily accept information from an actual developer on the PS3 platform ahead of people who just play games.

I'm getting so tired of these comments. I'm sure over the last couple of gens there's a correlation between the number of "we're only scratching the surface of this baby" type of comments and the lack of interesting things they have to say about the game being developed. Do you hear Myamoto talking about Galaxy only using 50% of Wii's potential or does he let the game speak for itself? These devs need to show me a game that plays significantly differently from last gen because of the extra hardware capabilities before I'll get the least bit interested in a purchase.

Weren't the 13% & 1.3% figures for FFXIII & FFXIII Vs respectively a deliberately scinical way to tell people to shut up with the stupid questions and let them get on with development?

I mean FF13, 13%, 1.3%, do you see a pattern emerging here?

Davygee that apples to oranges. System power usage and game completion percentage aren't near the same thing. Square Enix completed the scenario to FFXIII before started coding the game. They know what the total size of FFXIII's world be. They know much text will be containted in the game. They know how many characters the game will feature and how much voice over work those characters will need. In other words, they know how much farther they have to go until they reach 100% complete status.

No one knows the true maximum of the PS3 hardware. The theoritical maxiums listed in the specs are not achievable in actual gameplay situations. The Cell was benchmarked with 8 SPUs, the PS3's Cell only has 6 SPUs available for developers. Thats a one quarter of the potential power of the SPUs gone before the first line of code is programmed.

In related news we just started using 50% of the original XBox's power... I guess we should all go rush and buy one of those... at least they dont break every 12 months. Seriously everyone knows its marketing bs. This industry is full of it.

To the person above who claims that new graphics add more gameplay elements... no offense but i havent seen anything significantly new since Wolfenstein 3D and Ocarina of Time. Not that I dont think we should keep pushing the envelope but until there is some kind of revolutionary change all the extra power is just making the same games either bigger or prettier (sometimes). If graphics were a big factor then Nintendo would have been out of business a long time ago.

Not having to invest time to optimize code is a GOOD thing. It means more focus on the game and less on trying to figure out tricks to get a piece of code to run faster than it is. From a management perspective, that's good news. As a programmer, I have a different perspective, but that's neither here nor there.