Why Not Develop on The PS3?

[BROman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Striefer

Because the 360 is so limited in disk space, the ps3 has to suffer. I'm guessing if they developed the games on the ps3 first, it might be too much for the 360 when they port over; so they develop on the 360 first to save form that problem. It's not our fault the 360 has such hdd and game disk space limitations, so why should us ps3 owners suffer?

it is what it is. we're gonna get screwed on both ends b/c the ports from the 360 don't come close to taking advantage of the ps3's power, then when the next gen system comes out, ea will devote all of their resources to the new gen while we'll still be stuck w/ a 360 port. will ea ever actually develop a game for the ps3? i look at & play the show and can't help but wonder what could be.

[gogators]

Not to mention it is a hassle to develop on the PS3. There are major companies (one in particular Activision) has said they may stop development on the PS3 all together because of mainly the price of the machine and the difficulty of developing on the PS3. They said the sells of multiplatform games sucks compared to what they sell on the 360. I have both so I don't care, but the PS3 has amazing first party games in MLB: The Show, iNFAMOUS, Drake's Fortune, God of War. If EA could somehow match the quality of those games on a PS3, then by all means do it.

[Upallnight]

It is a known fact that it cost more and is much more of a hassle to code on the ps3 because of the cell processor not to mention it would make little sense for devs to put in all the extra money and time to make the ps3 the leading dev platform when the system is in last place.I personally have a ps3 and 360 and even a pos wii,the ps3 is by far the superior hardware,but as we have seen before in last gen(xbox was the strongest system by far but ps2 was the king) to this gen (ps3 is strongest,wii dominates),it's not how strong the actual hardware is that decides which is the best system.When it comes to games,if you put a gun to my head and I had to choose one without a second to think I would give up the ps3 and wii and keep the 360.

[Majoniak]

IMO the argument of "the ps3 is too hard to develop for" is such weak excuse. Do these people become game programmers and then just cease learning new things? You would think there would be at least one company outside of Sony, that would want to develop solely for the PS3, because the machine's potential is definetly there. I believe if someone committed the resources to do that, there would be a lot of money to be made.

[Bigdmo9999]

Its not like they can't dev on the PS3 and then port to the 360. Burnout Paradise was developed on the PS3 and ported to the 360. Pretty much the PS3 version would just be less compressed. The 360 version would be the one that is a little less quality, but I'm sure its not even noticeable.

[gogators]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majoniak

IMO the argument of "the ps3 is too hard to develop for" is such weak excuse. Do these people become game programmers and then just cease learning new things? You would think there would be at least one company outside of Sony, that would want to develop solely for the PS3, because the machine's potential is definetly there. I believe if someone committed the resources to do that, there would be a lot of money to be made.

I completely agree. Though I play the 360 more than the Wii and PS3, I still love the PS3 because of the first party titles. This is really just a moot point though. The reason the NCAA series has gone down is because of EA not the systems. The game should be better than last gen, but continually are not.

[cornbox]

Quote: Originally Posted by Solidice

dunno, i don't work at EA or Sony, so i have no idea how they structure their games. I've heard that Sony's basketball game was terrible(i never played it, just going by what people that have played it, said about it), so obviously not every game made on PS3 is automatically better because of Blu-ray. it still takes people to actually make the game great. look at what Madden did this year, and it's still developed on the 360. as for the stadiums over gear, i think that was more of dev time than disc space. also, there are plenty of PC games and games on 360 that are really great and still fit on 1 DVD disc. disc space is not the only factor when it comes to great games. it would be easier if the 360 did have more space, i'm not arguing that. and I never said the 360 had more internal memory, the PS3 and 360 both have 512mb of RAM, the difference is how it is used by each. right now, the 360 has more available to the developers than the PS3, but the PS3 is getting better with every update that now they are about the same. this is really the weak point of both systems, if these consoles had 1 gig of RAM, wow, we could have really epic games.

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1 gig of RAM would totaly change games on these systems

[Common]

Quote: Originally Posted by Solidice

dunno, i don't work at EA or Sony, so i have no idea how they structure their games. I've heard that Sony's basketball game was terrible(i never played it, just going by what people that have played it, said about it), so obviously not every game made on PS3 is automatically better because of Blu-ray. it still takes people to actually make the game great. look at what Madden did this year, and it's still developed on the 360. as for the stadiums over gear, i think that was more of dev time than disc space. also, there are plenty of PC games and games on 360 that are really great and still fit on 1 DVD disc. disc space is not the only factor when it comes to great games. it would be easier if the 360 did have more space, i'm not arguing that. and I never said the 360 had more internal memory, the PS3 and 360 both have 512mb of RAM, the difference is how it is used by each. right now, the 360 has more available to the developers than the PS3, but the PS3 is getting better with every update that now they are about the same. this is really the weak point of both systems, if these consoles had 1 gig of RAM, wow, we could have really epic games.

Sony's basketball title isn't good. However that's irrelevant as we've seen what can be done when a solid amount of effort is put into creating a great sports title.

As hard as they've tried to make Madden better, it still doesn't appear as if it can touch The Show. Amazing considering Madden's in it's "10" cycle, and The Show is still "09".

I honestly don't believe 1 gig of ram is necessary for an epic game. The PS3 and 360 have produced epic games, PS3 more so, but that's just my opinion. I'm not a tech expert or anything close, but from what I've seen, the Ps3 is the more capable system. Someone just needs to try developing on it.

[Common]

Quote: Originally Posted by gogators

I completely agree. Though I play the 360 more than the Wii and PS3, I still love the PS3 because of the first party titles. This is really just a moot point though. The reason the NCAA series has gone down is because of EA not the systems. The game should be better than last gen, but continually are not.

According to the devs, the systems or memory are the part of the reason the games are lacking. They can only put o much into the game.... their words, not my own.

[ak1knight]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majoniak

IMO the argument of "the ps3 is too hard to develop for" is such weak excuse. Do these people become game programmers and then just cease learning new things? You would think there would be at least one company outside of Sony, that would want to develop solely for the PS3, because the machine's potential is definetly there. I believe if someone committed the resources to do that, there would be a lot of money to be made.

Why learn something new when you don't have to? Nobody wants to develop for one system any more (except for first party of course) because you're basically cutting out half the market. You can see it when FFXIII and MGS are coming to 360. There's not money in non-multiplat because this gen's consoles have sold much worse than the PS2 did. When you're developing multi-plat why not use the easiest system to work with and then not have to compress everything or find out at the end that your game is too big?