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RED53DEVILS on 18 November 2008

Almost all the PS3 exclusives have gone multi-platform this gen cause the PS3 hasn't sold well.It is difficult and costs more money and time to develop games for the cell processor.Most of the games which are developed for both 360 and PS3 are first developed with 360 as the base platform and then are ported to the PS3 with no change.The reason is that the 360 can't handle the performance of the PS3,that's why the PS3 is not used as the base platform.If you look at the PS3 exclusives,they are much better than the multi platform PS3 games.Once the PS3 begins to sell more,the developers will then start to concentrate on it and the 360 versions will be then just a cut out of the PS3 version with less dynamics like the PS2 games which are developed nowadays



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Kantor on 18 November 2008

No, almost all the THIRD PARTY PS3 exclusives have gone multiplat this gen. Please don't make me give a long list of PS3 exclusives. Please.

Other than that, you're right. There is also the fact that there are more 360s in use, and so they will sell more software on 360 (almost always happens). PS3 is rarely used as lead platform. But with these exclusives that Microsoft has 'borrowed', PS3 will be lead platform, I'm sure of it. FF13, Tekken 6, DMC, I'm sorry, how many other exclusives has the PS3 lost?



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Darc Requiem on 18 November 2008
RED53DEVILS said:

Almost all the PS3 exclusives have gone multi-platform this gen cause the PS3 hasn't sold well.It is difficult and costs more money and time to develop games for the cell processor.Most of the games which are developed for both 360 and PS3 are first developed with 360 as the base platform and then are ported to the PS3 with no change.The reason is that the 360 can't handle the performance of the PS3,that's why the PS3 is not used as the base platform. If you look at the PS3 exclusives,they are much better than the multi platform PS3 games.Once the PS3 begins to sell more,the developers will then start to concentrate on it and the 360 versions will be then just a cut out of the PS3 version with less dynamics like the PS2 games which are developed nowadays

 

You may want to get your facts straight. Third party developers have switched to making the PS3 the lead console because they have trouble porting the 360's code to the PS3. It's easier to port a game from the PS3 to the 360.



mai on 18 November 2008

The reason is that the 360 can't handle the performance of the PS3,that's why the PS3 is not used as the base platform...

Why not Wii? It's extremely underpowered comparing with PS3\X360, you contradicts yourself.



TheTruthHurts! on 18 November 2008
Darc Requiem said:
RED53DEVILS said:

Almost all the PS3 exclusives have gone multi-platform this gen cause the PS3 hasn't sold well.It is difficult and costs more money and time to develop games for the cell processor.Most of the games which are developed for both 360 and PS3 are first developed with 360 as the base platform and then are ported to the PS3 with no change.The reason is that the 360 can't handle the performance of the PS3,that's why the PS3 is not used as the base platform. If you look at the PS3 exclusives,they are much better than the multi platform PS3 games.Once the PS3 begins to sell more,the developers will then start to concentrate on it and the 360 versions will be then just a cut out of the PS3 version with less dynamics like the PS2 games which are developed nowadays


You may want to get your facts straight. Third party developers have switched to making the PS3 the lead console because they have trouble porting the 360's code to the PS3. It's easier to port a game from the PS3 to the 360.

          Well put Darc Requiem.

 



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twesterm on 18 November 2008
Darc Requiem said:
RED53DEVILS said:

Almost all the PS3 exclusives have gone multi-platform this gen cause the PS3 hasn't sold well.It is difficult and costs more money and time to develop games for the cell processor.Most of the games which are developed for both 360 and PS3 are first developed with 360 as the base platform and then are ported to the PS3 with no change.The reason is that the 360 can't handle the performance of the PS3,that's why the PS3 is not used as the base platform. If you look at the PS3 exclusives,they are much better than the multi platform PS3 games.Once the PS3 begins to sell more,the developers will then start to concentrate on it and the 360 versions will be then just a cut out of the PS3 version with less dynamics like the PS2 games which are developed nowadays

 

You may want to get your facts straight. Third party developers have switched to making the PS3 the lead console because they have trouble porting the 360's code to the PS3. It's easier to port a game from the PS3 to the 360.

 

This is correct



 

haxxiy on 18 November 2008

Yes... PS3 runs max at 2 Teraflops, X360 at 1 teraflop.



 

 

 

 

 

Pristine20 on 18 November 2008

They're not the same, 360 versions are better in most cases lol.

I won't be stupid enough to blame it on "inferior" ps3 hardware though.



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Million on 18 November 2008

@Twestern Noticed you're very Anti-PS3 not in the sense that you troll but you constantly oppose anything pro-ps3 or support anything anti PS3.

Tip : at least compliment the PS3 every now and then to appear less bias.

 

On topic the title made me lol.




twesterm on 18 November 2008
Million said:

@Twestern Noticed you're very Anti-PS3 not in the sense that you troll but you constantly oppose anything pro-ps3 or support anything anti PS3.

Tip : at least compliment the PS3 every now and then to appear less bias.

 

On topic the title made me lol.

 

What was anti-PS3 in that comment?  >_>

It's easier to develop for the PS3 first because it's easier to port from the PS3 to the 360.  Don't ask me why because that starts getting into territory I don't know a lot about, but I just know that's what we do and that's why making a PS3/360/PC game is a breeze.