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misteromar on 10 August 2007

"when you can do lot of things, you won't be good for any of them" (I don't know how it goes in english).

Jack of all trades and master of none.

I think is kinda what you meant, bud



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Legend11 on 10 August 2007

The new engine (and other cross platform engines) are good for Sony because it allows the PS3 to basically ride on the coat tails of the Xbox 360 and PC until it gets a big enough userbase to stand on it's own.

For example without Unreal Engine 3 it's probably likely that many companies (especially smaller developers) using it wouldn't have developed a PS3 version of their games since the installed base likely wouldn't have supported the costs of building the game from the ground up on that system.



WiteoutKing on 10 August 2007
Hus said:
Game_boy said:

Yes, the engine may be done or close to done, but won't it take time to make PS3 games of the quality you're assuming would "save" the console? Plus, who is going to invest that much money on a losing console, even if taht game would eventually "save" it.

 

LMAO Whos got MGS or FF13 ? theres is no higher quality then that.

Not to people who aren't fans of stealth or role-playing games.

I happen to be not much a fan of MGS.  I don't dislike it, I'm just not big on it. 



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