Hatchetforce

First of all Assissin's Creed isn't a port to the PS3.

Second, look at this hands on of PS3 and 360 versions of CoD4.

http://www.dailygame.net/news/archives/006696.php

Especially note these remarks:

"The PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions all look surprisingly similar, but that's not due to one platform being the lead; Infinity Ward personally assured us that development occurred simultaneously on all three platforms, and that there wasn't a base system. With that said, the console similarities end when it comes to textures, lighting and resolutions, because those three areas make the PlayStation 3 version definitely excel over the Xbox 360 SKU."

So you see those days of beating up the PS3 are coming to an end.

Rather than rewrite my comments, I'll copy my own post from another forum:

You don't get much higher than Gabe Newell? You can't be serious. A company that has coninued to milk a several years old franchise with few upgrades to an already dated engine can hardly be said to be the pinnacle of gaming achievement and expertise.

I am a Steam subscriber and in that regard I have been pleased with their service. Digital transfer on the PC has lagged far too long and companies such as EA have yet to learn the best manner to handle not only the initial product, but updates to that same product as well. Valve has perfected this seamless interaction with the customer base.

However, their accomplishments end there. The Source engine was a hot item. The operative word being was. The tools for that engine are atrocious and quite frankly were it not for a scrappy mod community Half Life 2 would not have survived as long as it has. How many times in how many forms can they milk the same title over and over again? Portal? A stolen idea. Team Fortress? The same. I will watch the Incredbles thank you. For someone that made their fortune riding on John Carmack's back I am amazed at the arrogance of this fat clown.

As someone that bought the Xbox version of Half Life 2 in addition to the PC version I know Gabe Newell deserves little more than my middle finger. And now they are selling the same game...again. Pushing the innovation envelope means you set yourself up for potential failure. Something Valve is loathe to do. It protects the company but on the other hand it leaves them in hasbeenland and automatically slaps a fat piece of tape across an already fatter mouth.

Simply put, if Valve were producing cutting edge technology then they might have some right to sit in the backyard and bark. As it is the titles they have out are nothing as regards envelope pushing achievements and Gabe Newell should just shut his fat mouth. It is like listening to the World Pong champion complain that HALO 3 doesn't have good gameplay or that the environments in Heavenly Sword were not varied enough. There is no merit when the area in which you are complaining is one in which your company has chosen to sit on it's collective fat ass.

Guerrilla Games has well proven the merits of the Cell processor and the advantage of parallel processing. People like Newell, who isn't a programmer, and even John Carmack remarked there would be little advantage in the Cell. Such incorrect statements were founded upon a belief that intricate parallel processing could not be achieved to a degree required by advanced modern games. They were wrong. Hell, most people in the industry had similar views. It isn't a crime. Now Newell seems to have a hard time swallowing his errors.

Newell has a history of whining about anything that isn't Windows XP. Remember this from old lardass:

"I spoke to some people at Microsoft, and as I said, I can't point to a single feature in Vista that I care about that solves problems for us. At all. And I had the same conversation with the Xbox 360 guys. It's like Xbox 360 doesn't make my life any better, and in fact, it makes it a lot worse, as you're telling me I can't count on having a hard drive," said Newell.

Funny how you don't hear Mark Rein crying like this. But then again Mark is a great guy and doesn't fly into a diabetic rage every time he runs out of Ho Ho's and Snickers bars.

Too bad fat boy but here is how gaming works. You either get on a bullet train or you get flattened by it. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way. It matters little in the end. Valve will continue to produce mainly PC works and companies like Guerrilla, Epic, Bungie, Naughty Dog and others will push technology out where it belongs...into the hands of the players.

How many times are they going to publish predictions from this pinhead egoist Pachter? His record is worse than Miss Cleo. I wouldn't let Wedbush Morgan near my portfolio while he is an advisor.

According to this article, it is already happening for other titles:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=170214

I quote:

"Gearbox Software is one of a number of developers to already take advantage of a new PC-PS3 cross-platform online play solution that's been integrated into Unreal Engine 3."

The key word being ALREADY.

Damn KSe, you know very little about game development. Ther isn't a developer out there building a title that isn't for the Wii that wouldn't love more disc space. Uncompressed audio? A no brainer.

What is interesting is joystiq, well known 360 proponent that always carries Mark Rein's comments hasn't picked up this or his official response on the Epic forums.

How could anyone in their right mind say "I'll skip this based on a single review of a beta build. Oh by the way, I believe reviews because I have no reasoning capability of my own."

Sheer stupidity. Just goes to show you how many PS3 haters read this blog.

What the hell? Are people allowed just to make crap up now and everyone quotes it as news? Where is their source that Kojima or Konami has a new game in the MGS series coming. Last time I checked, guest does not equal new game.

This just in, Kojima has completed MGS5 and 6 already.

Tesley, Pachter has less than a 50% rating. Even the ones he gets, he doesn't actually often get.

Example, he says he correctly predicted the 360 price drop. But actually he predicted it would be announced at E3. It wasn't. Hell I can predict a price drop on everything as long as time frame is not requirement for correctness.

This guy is an idiot that admitted on camera to spinning the truth in favor of companies that pay him proper respect. Proper respect? He thinks he is Don Pachter from Sicily. He is an outsider and an admitted liar that adjusts facts to suit whomever sucks up to him that week. Don't we have enough suits screwing up the industry without adding to the already polluted gene pool?

@16, you are still my bitch onl;y now you are everyone elses here. You come onto a PS3 site to troll.

You can't put the words back into Peter Moore's mouth. Your god said them and now you are stuck with them. Ha ha ha. And HD DVD is going down. MS won't have a choice in the matter. They have to adopt Bluray. Now they are knocking 20 bucks off their worthless drive. Hey if they really wanted to screw you they would give you two of them. My fucking old VCR in the attic has more worth.