PlayStation 3 harder to develop for? Nonsense, says GRAW team

**MIG-31** · Aug 17, 2007, 11:00 AM

Source: Gamesindustry
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The team responsible for one of Ubisoft's most acclaimed videogames – Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter – has told GamesIndustry.biz that developing titles for the PlayStation 3 is no harder than working on Microsoft's Xbox 360.

Despite analyst reports and internet chatter, the BAFTA-award winning team says it's just a case of developers getting up to speed with the new hardware, as Sony's console is earlier in it's lifecycle than Microsoft's Xbox 360.

calidan · Aug 17, 2007, 12:19 PM

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But it wasn't until the end of the PS2 cycle that we've seen the machine being pushed to its fullest,"

There are many systems that never reached its full potential. The Dreamcast, Saturn, and the Xbox to name a few. Nintendo and Sony are the only companies that have pushed their systems to the limit.

mike2h · Aug 17, 2007, 12:28 PM

i agree. was a shame about dreamcast, was definetly ahead of its time.

hohum · Aug 17, 2007, 05:06 PM

The comments I've read about the difficulty with PS3 suggest that it's not so much due to it being massively harder to program for, but that it has a distinct lack of memory when compared to the 360. According to what Carmack was saying recently... 360's dashboard takes up 32meg, leaving 480 meg for whatever else... whereas PS3 takes up 96meg for that dashboard-esque thing, leaving 160meg + a seperate 256meg only available for graphics use.

BlueMak · Aug 17, 2007, 07:18 PM

Don't they unload from memory when they are running games?

I remember the good old times when you could get a whole operating system on ROM of the computer (for example Atari ST). I am sure the technology has at least stayed the same to allow something similar for the dashboards :-p

mike2h · Aug 17, 2007, 08:47 PM

i agree with blue here. there is no reason to keep the dash board completely loaded while gaming & given sony's experience i doubt that they would.