Ex-Rock Band developer disses PS3
New rant predicts failure for Sony's beast
Jason Booth, a former developer of both Guitar Hero and Rock Band, who now works for Conduit Labs, has written a scathing blog entry predicting that the PlayStation 3 will lose the current hardware war.
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"Sony let their hardware be designed by a comity of business interests rather than a well thought out design that would serve the game development community" he railed, adding that PS3 apparently has "roughly half" the pixel pushing power of the 360 - and that first-party games will "continue to suck" while ports will never live up to their Xbox 360 counterparts.
He also believes that a "small number of PS3 only developers will optimize the hardware to do something cool".
He concluded: "This post might come across as a lot of Sony bashing, but it's just the reality from the trenches. Sony let their hardware be designed by a comity of business interests rather than a well thought out design that would serve the game development community. They are going to loose hard this round because of it, and I hope that in the next round they take lessons from this round and produce a more balanced and usable machine."
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The only reason he has said all of this crap is to get a load of publicity for his new business.
Kojima is not able to make MGS4 on the 360 because
it can not produce like the PS3 so that guy needs to stick it up his ass. Also, guys at Rockstar have complained about the 360 when it comes to GTA4 for the same reason. I believe Sony is thinking long term (or atleast should), two years from now, as these nex gen games become more powerful, PS3's potential will be filled. I am not a Sony fanboy, and I do like the 360. The Wii is going to win this console war anyway. -
A second party developer who is being paid MILLIONS by sony to keep his game exclusive to the ps3 says that? Hmm surely that isn't biased.
HAHA! EX-Developer...
First Party games suck?
I guess he means; Resistance, Ratchet & Clank, Heavenly Sword, Motorstorm, Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, Folklore, let alone the 3rd party exclusives; Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII Versus, Metal Gear Solid 4 and others...
Either this guy got a job at Microsoft Gaming Studio or is a lazy developer. Glad he's not developing any more PS3 games, or they would suck!!
i dont understand how he is saying that about ps3. xbox 360 in the future is going to have run out of disc space. 9gb isnot very much. when the demos are 1.5gb that might give you an idea why blu ray is so important. the 360 can not support ture 1080p with out the hdmi ports and the new ones that have them there is only 2 games that have native 1080p. If anyone hase played the game skate on both systems they will agree that it looks MUCH BETTER on the ps3 then on the 360. It makes the 360s look almost foggy.
ps3 has half the pixel push as the ps3, makes no sense?
haha look at you all desperatly trying to defend your PS3!!??, its a bit of hardware, anyone would think he'd just kicked your nan in!. thid guy makes games & knows a lot more than you all do, the problem with the PS3 is companys like Konami hav millions to spend on getting the most out of the PS3 & they get alot of attention from Sony. Where are smaller developers dont have these luxuries & there products end up looking sh*t in comparison, what you'll get on the PS3 is a wave of crap looking 3rd party games, a few dodgy ports & a couple of great looking exclusives a year. Sony didnt build the PS3 with games in mind & this is the problem....
@Hollywooda:
HAHA! Look at you trying to bash the PS3, still on the band-wagon?
And the "HD ready" 360's DVD9 and lack of HDD in all consoles is ready to take on the HD market, right? Get a clue, things change - either keep up with technology or get the F out.
A lot of developers are finding that instead of coasting along in the comfort zone they will have to earn their money for once and actually learn something new to get the best out of what is a very powerful system. Insomniac games are proving this with what are probably three of the ps3's top five titles Resistance, Warhawk and Ratchet, each game raising the bar on the last in a very short space of time.
Badly written, poorly spelt and unashamedly biased articles like this belittle the videogaming community portraying us as a bunch of squabbling children with nothing better to do than score points off each other over what system someone owns. Every system has a different audience and a finite lifespan and nobody should openly participate in console xenophobia. Life really is too short.
I am not a developer, and I am a fan off all 3 systems, I have all of them. The PS3 has some great looking games, Resistance, Motorstorm, Ratchet and Clank, etc....so in my opinion, it seems like developers that know what they are doing can make great looking games. Where as the average developers might need to go back to school to learn more. Complaining about the PS3 is wrong, other companies have made great looking games on the PS3 already.
It's soo sad how the Sony fanboys that is posting on here trying to defend their PS2.5 (aka PS3). I own both systems and while my PS3 collect dust I'm playing Gears and Halo 3 and oopps forget about small game called MASS EFFECT thats coming out. PS3 online sucks and the games look good but not as good as most of the 360 games that are out. I don't think the PS3 could even handle (graphics wise)360 games. Give me a call when Sony actually makes a title that I will play if not my PS3 is going on ebay.
I don't really undertstand this sentence:
"adding that PS3 apparently has "roughly half" the pixel pushing power of the PS3"
@nynja: At least the 360 has proven itself as a games console, & for all your whistles & bells on the PS3 the Wii is kicking its @rse!... so whats that tell you!?....i'll save you the pain of using your brain, "PEOPLE BUY GAMES CONSOLES, TO PLAY GAMES"....simple.
Wrong... look at Assassin's Creed.. developers straggled to fit on dvd9 (xbox360)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3) i dont think any 360 game would go to close this one (19GB)
@ Ula : wot the fcuks that got to do with anything??.... most of that comes down to lazy programming anyway & just because a game is a million gb doesnt mean it gonna be any good?
It would be easier to take this bitter fool seriously if he knew how to spell or use proper grammar. Seriously, this blog reads like a 12 year old fanboy on an internet forum.
I can be told all the numbers about how PS3 can't push as many pixels as 360 or whatever other rubbish specs people with agendas can dream up, but there's no getting away from the fact that on a purely technical/visual level, the likes of Uncharted or Ratchet and Clank Future are clearly just as impressive as anything I've seen running on the 360 and don't 'suck' in any way.
So long as I have eyes in my head, I'll believe them before I entertain any number spewing illiterate with an axe to grind, I can tell you.