Both Nick and Gavin have made vocal their displeasure at at the hyperbolic rhetoric thrown around by first party developers. It’s time for them to grit their teeth as yet another Sony-owned studio proudly proclaims that their game is “Only possible on PS3â€. The following is from an Ars Technica interview with Naughty Dog.
"I guarantee that this game couldn’t be working on XBox 360. It would be impossible. I’m 100 percent sure of this." Bold words indeed, from the mouth of Christophe Balestra, co-president of Naughty Dog , on their upcoming PS3 exclusive Uncharted 2. "First of all,†He continued “we fill the Blu-ray 100 percent, we have no room left on this one. We have 25GB of data; we’re using every single bit of it." That’s a lotta Gee Bees!
"You can play the entire game without loading. We don’t require an install. We’re doing all the post-processing effects on the SPUs [Synergistic Processing Units]. The quality of the depth of field we have, you can’t do that on the Xbox. "We’ve invested a lot of time maximising the power of the machine," he continued, starting to sound like a PS3 salesman. "That’s our job, to make the PS3 shine."
Uncharted 2 is indeed an incredibly tasty looking game and one of my most anticipated titles this year, but I was sure developers had reached the general consensus that both current-gen machines (Suck it, Wii) were, barring a few positives and negatives on either side, technically on par.
Source : Ars Technica
Last Updated: August 28, 2009
V@mp
August 28, 2009 at 08:34
Obviously it won’t work on a Xbox 360. Just like
no Xbox 360 game works on a PS3 console :silly:
darthdad
August 28, 2009 at 08:35
Surely he means in its current state it would not be able to run on the 360. I’m sure if they made it on multiple discs it would run just fine. 😉
WitWolfyZA
August 28, 2009 at 08:46
statements like this are only to state that Encharted will never go multiplat… Easy as that, unlike the Mass Effect rumors. So there we have it people Encharted will never be going multiplatform…. EVER
bboy
August 28, 2009 at 08:53
Well, ya – if you base your logic on the medium that the game is on then xbox 360 won’t work. Who cares? it’s like saying that an old-skool NES 8-bit game won’t run on the PS3 because it doesn’t have a cartridge slot!
He sounded very reputable until he mentioned that they using every bit!? Either it is deliberate, or it is an exaggeration, because the chance that they randomly finished dev and it fitted without a single BIT left on the disk is a little rich.
I think it is quite a feat that there are so many cross platform games, honestly – i’d expect this to be the norm if developers didn’t try so hard to actually get games working on both consoles.
Ozzy
August 28, 2009 at 08:58
wont work on the 360. period. :devil: 😆
easy
August 28, 2009 at 09:04
delving into uncharted territory their wolfy
‘encharting’ comment though 😉
easy
August 28, 2009 at 09:10
of course the guy is gonna plug all his worth for the ps3! he gets paid a crap load to make sure it can only work on a ps3.
it may irk some people, but you don’t sell a car by saying it runs like a tractor!
just ignore the pr speak, because proof is always in the pudding.
Geoff
August 28, 2009 at 09:13
I like pudding! :cheerful:
fallen_angel
August 28, 2009 at 09:43
what people tend to forget is that whenever you open your mouth to the media and say one thing they put it in a different way while putting it in ” ” even if what you said dont match what they put in those brackets. happened to me and its irritating as hell. websites know they going to get more hits by making snazzy headlines. I see no difference in this story and the other one the other day about Batman comparisons across the two platforms.
fallen_angel
August 28, 2009 at 09:44
you appear vey upset with M$
Ozzy
August 28, 2009 at 10:07
yes i am. for quite a while i thought they were the shit but not anymore. wish i could go into more detail and have a rant but im a bit tied up today. lets just say that sony is a great company to support in comaparison. m$ have had their chips with me.
Fox1
August 28, 2009 at 10:13
True. What sense would it make to put a game on multiple discs if it’s just as long as games that come with single discs on the 360?
Petrus
August 28, 2009 at 10:36
LOL and yet you can DL most PS3 games for under 10 gig…
Most are even able to fit on std DL disks…
My game uses 25 gig = really poor compression and streaming tech.
:alien:
janrik
August 28, 2009 at 10:46
Next Cliffy B will tell us Gears cannot be on PS3. Ever.
This thing just goes round and round.
Someone
August 28, 2009 at 10:48
This game sounds like its gona KILL the BD-lazer… 🙁
Ruslan
August 28, 2009 at 10:56
So Ozzy prefers companies who install rootkits from their music CD’s and have silly PR to showcase their games? You must have shares in Sony. :tongue:
Ozzy
August 28, 2009 at 11:20
ruslan, sa’s blog and forum terrorist. the main man with zero friends. how i pity you. but you do look so cute in that gimp suit m$ bought for you. twat. :devil:
janrik
August 28, 2009 at 11:37
Um… Ruslan has friend, buddy…
All giant corporations suck btw.
WitWolfyZA
August 28, 2009 at 11:38
didnt they say that already?
Boobs
August 28, 2009 at 11:44
And you are who exactly?
Boobs
August 28, 2009 at 11:45
Oh and Janrik also has friends.. :biggrin:
fred
August 28, 2009 at 12:26
I’d rather have it install to the hard drive too…. save the laser and bd drive.
Ruslan
August 28, 2009 at 12:41
I am impressed… you can spell PITY… but I guess it was Firefox’s spell checker which helped you out.
For your record MS isnt any better than Sony. I just find Sony’s PR machine a bit… odd at times? :blink: