The Big M's Matt Lee dishes on 360 vs. PS3 [UPDATE]

hey you messed that up bigtime you repeated the lines:
"The interview covers a wide range of topics but doesn't get truly interesting until Lee starts discussing the differences between Xbox 360 and the upcoming PS3. "

hurry and fix it and it can be our little secret

My first day as a blogger, and I'm already getting hot flashes.

I dont know how many times i can say it.

XNA is the key here and 360 has it and PS3 Does not.

No matter what these sony fanboys say.

those are the facts.

the Cell was bulit to crunch numbers not render graphics,

i just hope this will shut them up finaly.

if you think about it its really not that hard
360 has a 10 million console head start on the PS3 when it lanuches(hopefully) right now its at about 3-4 million. they average about 250,000 units a week, there about 20 weeks left till nov.
you can then extrapolate that they sell about 5 million more consoles that will put that number right below the goal of 10 million consoles

ok now when studios line up to make games and buy SDK for those games, since many of them make games for PC market as well(in most cases the plan this first)COD/DOOM/QUAKE/BF2 etc MS is then able to Leverage there XNA studio platform agianst that.

So your a studio your making your game for both PC and 360 and you also plan on making it maybe for PS3(hey why not). now the studio buys the XNA studio SDK and then can created basicly the same game code for both PC and 360(which is the key) becasue now the studio can release it for
A. the large market of the PC gamers.
and
B. to the 10 million of so 360 out there.
C. the cost to do so is greatly reduced becasue XNA is a common platform between them.

now the key is that if studios choose to make games using XNA and most will becasue its a easy to use platform. then ported over to PS3 is going to be hard. what that means is more exclusives for 360 and less for PS3,

the only PS3 games your going to see are games designed from the beginning with the PS3 in mind. and what studio would do that when the PC and 10 million consoles users starving for content are backing down your doors for the next gears of war.

agian but sony fanboys never need the facts to think their console is better.

i wan ta new hard drive 20gb is already full. I dint want to buy another 20gb but something around 100gb, or 80gb please make my wish come true before christmas MSFT. I dont care About the price.

Sense, it's not really your first day as a blogger in my mind. =)

I'd like to know how well the Cell could perform for games with only having a SINGLE core. Sure, the SPE's are there to help, but they still need to go through the core in order to be told what to do. That would seem to waste time in my mind; the core always handing out commands to it's mindless helpers.

The diagram helped emphasize his point on memory; I didn't realize that there were two separate 256MB sections of ram. The video chips are limited to 256MB at all times? And the System can only use 256MB of ram at a time?

I'm sure devs sure did a happy dance for unified memory in the 360 like he said...that means they could allocate a memory size to the system or video memory per need. In theory, they could go 384MB for graphics and 128MB for system or vice versa (not exactly, but to give you an idea).

"One thing to note, however, is that Japan is not necessarily the most important market for gaming these days. It is also not quite as large as the US and European markets. The Japanese market is very important to the Xbox 360 and we've got a whole bunch of great Japanese titles on the way from major Japanese developers.

Both the Japanese and US markets are reaching saturation at this point. The big battleground for us (and for everyone) is going to be Europe."

Great point here...

ok.........did every one forget that the ps3 isnt out yet
they could fix so many things by its launch
and about all this tech comparison
im not gonna trust anything on the internet
the only way ill belive it is wen i buy both 360 and ps3 and compare them myself
or if the worlds smartest person told me which one was better
so there **** everyone i hope the world blows up

Oh wow you read it on the internet...
It must be true...

Just cause some yahoo spills technobable does not make it truth.

Ever bought a computer?
1 Years worth of technology will make a big difference. This is why the XBOX was more powerful than the PS2.
The 360 has an ATI Video Card. ATI Sucks, every ATI I have had stinks for video games. ATI must fake their benchmarks.

I do like my 360 but come november when the PS3 hits, you'll see the difference.
Then we can all remember what a TOOL you sounded like spilling your "Knowledge" about XNA etc. etc.

XBOX Live = Patches R Us
There is an update to update your update...

Allow be to devour your comments for the dribble that they are..

Oh wow you read it on the internet...
It must be true...

Just cause some yahoo spills technobable does not make it truth.

some yahoo? did you read the article

Well, my dad worked for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and later Compaq. He got me started with my first programming in BASIC. I was seven years old at the time.
I have worked at Microsoft full-time for almost five years now. Before that, I was an intern at Microsoft for two summers, while I was at MIT. After I finished my master's degree in June 2001, I started in Microsoft Game Studios, working on a MMORPG called Mythica.

yea sounds like a real yahoo, almost like he has no idea what he's talking about and is just speaking from his ass... sounds familiar...

Ever bought a computer?
1 Years worth of technology will make a big difference. This is why the XBOX was more powerful than the PS2.

Another bonehead comment, you put them up and i'll knock them down.

idiot the PS3 hardware specs are and have been set in stone for the last two years how do you think a game studio can make a game optimized for it if Sony plans on changing the specs "over the next year" moronic...


The 360 has an ATI Video Card. ATI Sucks, every ATI I have had stinks for video games. ATI must fake their benchmarks.

well that’s because your cheap, see being one of the largest GPU manufactures in the world you offer products for all price points your crappy ATI card is because you bough a X300 PCI you cheap shit...

http://www.ati.com/technology/crossfire/

do you see this thing? are you devoid of any intelligence?

I do like my 360 but come november when the PS3 hits, you'll see the difference.

oh my what fodder...

yes with great hits like Tekken 6 and of course Riiiiiiidddgee Racer
your a douche bag and i doubt you own a 360 go back to your mom and whine some more after all how else are you going to afford you PS3


Then we can all remember what a TOOL you sounded like spilling your "Knowledge" about XNA etc. etc.

yea im the one thats going to come off looking like a tool...
maybe because i actually have a clue about what im talking about where as you shoot from the hip and only are left looking like a douche.


XBOX Live = Patches R Us
There is an update to update your update...

yea its such a bad idea to be able to fix a game after it's been release becasue the PC industry is totally wrong...right they dont do. What makes me laugh so hard about this moronic comment is that its such a desperate attempt to leverage something anything against the 360, when in reality SONY IS COPYING THIS EXACT FEATURE into their "HUB" system your really grasping at straws here Scotty boy..



Scott Krueger your a troll go to the PS3 fanboy site, im sure they could use the support.