The PS3's marketshare would have to fall well below half of what the 360's is, in order to justify the shift from PS3 development to 360 development again. Remember it only costs ~%10 of the overall dev cost to port a HD game from one to the other, and you get better results (on both platforms, according to many sources), if you start with the PS3.

I don't think that could happen by the end of the generation -- even if the 360 continues to outsell the PS3 for the entire remainder of the gen.  It has nothing to do with the PS3, and everything to do with both HD platforms combined, ease-of-porting, and the end result -- thanks to the more rigid requirements of the PS3 also happening to yield gains on the 360, when adhered to.

Many 360 games, even released recently, only use 1 core, for the most part.  If they were engineered to operate in parallel to begin with, using all three cores would be, potentially, a big  benefit.

As an example, I'll throw out some random game loop concepts, to illustrate:

Game:  32 animated characters onscreen at once, bullets flying around, particle FX, big streaming physics environment, lots of music, sounds, etc., and of course, rendering.

Sample costs (in ms) per frame on a pretend 3.2 GHz PowerPC core ("core 0"):

• Game processing (32 characters + misc stuff): 4 ms
  
• character animation: 10 ms
  
• sound stuff: 2 ms
  
• streaming data: 1 ms
  
• particles: 3 ms
  
• raycasts (bullets, etc): 1 ms
  
• AI: 2 ms
  
• physics: 4 ms
  
• rendering prep (culling, shadows, etc. etc.): 15 ms
  

Fixed.

I would also add that considering how well multiplateform title (who said SFIV ?) sell well on the PS3 despise it is restricted userbase, you should have bring your brain  think a bit more before creating a thread ...

and +1 for Procrastinato

"""The PS3's marketshare would have to fall well below half of what the 360's is, in order to justify the shift from PS3 development to 360 development again. Remember it only costs ~%10 of the overall dev cost to port a HD game from one to the other, and you get better results (on both platforms, according to many sources), if you start with the PS3.

I don't think that could happen by the end of the generation -- even if the 360 continues to outsell the PS3 for the entire remainder of the gen.  It has nothing to do with the PS3, and everything to do with both HD platforms combined, ease-of-porting, and the end result -- thanks to the more rigid requirements of the PS3 also happening to yield gains on the 360, when adhered to."""

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He's obviously talking about the possibility that Sony goes bankrupt, which is a real possibility given:

- how long the recession will last (notice it keeps getting longer and longer even according to the most optimistic analysts)
- Sony's finances (high debt, not much cash and currently losing a lot of money)
- Sony's low resistance to recessions

His point is that he hopes Sony can turn the company around into profitability before they run out of cash, which will be very hard for Sony to do.

 do you really believe Sony is going bankrupt NJ5 ???

are now they have lost some money but is it really enought tokill them  ???

I dont know why but I have the impression that their situatino is not so bad ...

Certainly what they have lost so far is not nearly enough to kill them. They still have more than enough cash to operate, I'd be very surprised if they don't last for at least for another 18 months (also, companies don't immediately die after going bankrupt). That said I'm not sure they'll go bankrupt. It's a real possibility, some analysts have said so and it makes a lot of sense.

Here is how things may play out in the next few months/years. Maybe not all of these things will happen, but some certainly will.

- Sony continues to restructure (which takes time and doesn't cause immediate cash savings, for example every laid off employee gets severance pay)

- Sony's cash reserves start to dwindle, getting closer and closer to the minimum operating level (if you've read articles about GM/Chrysler this expression pops up a lot).

- Sony gets further downgraded by credit ratings agencies, causing some of Sony's creditors to recall their loans. This means Sony needs more cash to pay them off, causing further problems (see AIG for an example).

- A lot of declarations from Sony's execs such as "this recession is very long and very deep, but we're doing what we can blah blah". More restructuring, more layoffs etc.

- Sony tries to sell some assets to other companies, which is made harder by the recession (other companies want to save money too, and aren't looking to expand). They manage to sell some assets, but usually at lower prices than their current value. Still, this buys them some time by increasing their cash reserves.

By the way this is not exclusive to Sony. The things listed above will happen to tons of companies in the near/medium term. Heck it's already happening to many medium companies, and some big ones as well.

PS3 as lead system for future games at ES.

EA exec crosses fingers for Sony's future

Errr....I'm not following your correction to my OP.

Well, mine does work in parallel. It will even use GPU to help CPU in some calculations(Which you did forget btw. ;)). Otherwise excellent example. I see beer does have magical powers after all.

am i the only one who want's to ask this schofield where his brother is ?

or have i been watching too much prison break ?