Ghostbusters dev: Xbox 360 is holding us back
Of course, Microsoft fanboys with a conspiratorial bent are likely to pick up on Randel's casual mention that "Ghostbusters is the property of Sony Pictures." Sure, it's possible that Randel is just badmouthing the competition to get in good with the rights-holder on his current game. Just as it is also technically possible that the 3DO will suddenly make a huge comeback this year ...
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I guess I can add something about this story. Umm, who is this guy again? o_O
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If they can make the game running comparitively on both systems, golf claps all around. Let's wait to see what they can do.
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If this came from a developer at Infinity Ward, Epic, or Valve, this would mean a lot to me. Coming from an exec at Terminal Reality, not so much.
also, wasn't gabe talking more about investing in learning how to program for the ps3? less on the relative power of the systems?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFUw29U4J8
pretty much agreeing with what Randel said, if you are going exclusive and putting effort on it, then you can do more...
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I mean, really, would you expect to only pay $400 for something if it actually had a processor with 7 full cores?
And really, how can he speculate at how well it would run as a PS3 exclusive.
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I don't doubt that the objects on screen can double, but at what cost? Low quality textures perhaps? Good luck with those ram limitations.
It's really comparing apples to oranges, but ultimately they're still fruit. Microsoft just got an almost off-the-shelf processor that matches up performance-wise to something Sony spent millions developing.
How much of the Sony koolaid has this guy drank? Call me a retarded midget pornstar but seems to me that anyone with a 2 year degree in almost any hardware/software field can tell you that the cores in the PS3 are not like the cores in the 360.
Like the doob above me said, they are just fancy floating-point processors. Remember the DSP chips in the PS2? They are just like that, except with more memory and a bus controller. Read up before you start programming for the system. That is the best way I can explain them without going in to /geek mode.
I'm not putting down the PS3, it made me and a friend go halfs on it, but lets be real... It's not like Sony is giving us a chip with 7 PPC cores. Gaw...
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I was hyped with the Zootfly attempt as is(and still to this point, it was looking like a better game than TR's in-progress shots). But hey, it's still slightly early.
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What a goon.
Each console has 1 processor, the PS3 has 1 physical core and 7 spu so 7 threads, the 360 has 1 physical processor split into 3 cores each with 2 threads so 6 threads.
This guy is talking out of his rear end.
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"Randel told the site at a Sierra event last week. "The PlayStation 3 has seven processors and the 360 only has three, so seven versus three means you can do a lot more on the PS3.""
The dude doesn't go on to say that the seven processors are a bit underpowered compared to the three the 360 offers - they're SPUs.
It's pretty funny though.
"Note that the relationship between cores and threads is a common source of confusion. The PPE core is dual threaded and manifests in software as two independent threads of execution while each active SPE manifests as a single thread. In the PlayStation 3 configuration as described by Sony, the Cell processor provides nine independent threads of execution."
Please quit getting your info from the vast amounts of idiots on Joystiq. Non researched FUD is the most hilarious of all. Not as hilarious as the people who voted you up as a truth sayer.
LOL
Skeleton mages shouldn't be allowed to edit posts. And the way this dev' describes it, the PS3 sounds like it has 15x the "blast processing" the SEGA Genesis has. LoL
Repeat after me sony fanboys "B-R-I-B-E"
And they made BloodRayne games in the fist place.
I don't trust their opinion on anything but how to suck.
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The PS3 came out a whole year after the 360. Of course it's technically better. This years computers are faster and better than last years computers.
Of the three next gen consoles the 360 is the OLDEST. But don't tell that to the XBOTS.
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Saying this only weakens your argument. Had you stuck to just comparing the 360 and the PS3, your ridiculous "newer = better" argument might've at least held some water with the uninformed. But by saying "the three next gen consoles," you bring the Wii into play. So according to your logic, the Wii is technically superior to the Xbox 360. Don't get me wrong, I like my Wii, but I've played it enough to know it's not surpassing the 360 in terms of power anytime soon.
2. You said three next gen consoles.
3. Wii is newer and is a next gen console.
Anyway, we all know Wii is underpowered in graphics but had far better motion sensing capabilities than the Xbox360.
And second generation PS3 games are looking extremely nice, some better than third generation XBOX games. Look at games like GT5P, Heavenly Sword, Uncharted...those games look amazing.
Just sayin'.