[PS3 Centraal] Deel 17 - Wachtend op de FEITEN!

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Cory Barlog was the Director of Animation for God of War, a game for the PlayStation 2 that has received extremely positive reviews.

In his latest blog entry, he specifically refers to an event taking place very soon:

"We got the word from on high that we need to present our game to Sony worldwide reps at this big conference next month..."

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Op maandag 23 januari 2006 08:47 schreef SocialDisorder het volgende:
bron: PS3Land.com
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interesting....

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And as for the PS2 vs PS3 development question. I was chatting to Michiel and he was telling me how crazy-easy it was compared to the PS2 and how much quicker things have been going for them. I will take his word on that.

Seb Downie - Lead Tester - Guerrilla Games

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Taking advantage of Cell's special powers isn't easy right now, though. "Instead of one potential problem, now you have seven," says Andy Sites, a producer for Sony Online Entertainment in San Diego who is working on a yet-to-be-announced PlayStation 3 project

While he states his game will take advantage of the chip's multiple processors, he admits it isn't easy. "It's very much a lot of fumbling around at this point," and a lot of "trial and error," to get something to work on the PS 3, says James Kosta, chief architect for BattleBorne Entertainment, a studio developing a game for both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. "It could take three or four generations of games (i.e., years) before we see anything taking advantage of the Cell's real potential."

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Mixed opinions from devs on Cell programming

Different developers are expressing opposing opinions on developing for the Cell processor.

Punch Jump is reporting that several developers believe it will be "three to four generations of games before the processor can be taken advantage of."

Microsoft's Xbox 360 launched in October 2005, and so developers will have had much more time to adjust to the new hardware. Sony could face problems trying to catch up if developers are struggling to utilise the Cell processor effectively.

"Instead of one potential problem, now you have seven," said Andy Sites, Sony Online Entertainment producer.

However, Seb Downie, Lead Tester for Guerrilla Games, has said quite the opposite. After many people asked about the differences in developing for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, Downie referred to a fellow developer:

"I was chatting to Michiel and he was telling me how crazy-easy it was compared to the PS2 and how much quicker things have been going for them."

In addition, Sony have put a lot of effort into providing middleware tools to make development easier. It's believed this is part of the reason Sony included the NVIDIA "RSX" graphics card. The Cell is said to be capable of handling graphics as well, but a GPU would be a lot more familiar to developers.

The Cell chip is a state-of-the-art processor built from ground-up by Sony, IBM and Toshiba. It features one main PowerPC core, and eight Synergistic Processing Elements, or mini-cores. The chip will form a major part of the PlayStation 3 hardware, but only seven SPEs will be active, in order to improve chip yield.

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Op dinsdag 24 januari 2006 14:27 schreef SocialDisorder het volgende:
maar hoe zit het nou met m'n fanboy-status? Staat die nog steeds?

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Op dinsdag 24 januari 2006 15:02 schreef peristilius het volgende:
Met 1 game kan je dat moeilijk representatief testen volgens mij.

Als ze de games nou 25% goedkoper maken kan ik 25% meer games kopen.

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Op dinsdag 24 januari 2006 15:02 schreef peristilius het volgende:
Met 1 game kan je dat moeilijk representatief testen volgens mij.

Als ze de games nou 25% goedkoper maken kan ik 25% meer games kopen.