Senior developers working on PlayStation 3 titles have told GamesIndustry.biz that reports of serious problems with the system's Cell and RSX hardware are "misleading and uninformed."
It's just a pointless measurement," one programmer told them. "Where's the context? How were these numbers measured? There are loads of different ways you can measure tri performance, and just putting up headline figures like that tells you nothing."
"In fact, the PlayStation 2 had better tri performance than the Xbox, on paper," he continued. "Everyone knows that the Xbox was more powerful at running real games, but if you just wanted to fill a screen with 2D, flat colour, unlit triangles, then the PS2 was much better at that, so it looked great in benchmarks. That just shows how meaningless this measurement is - it's really pointless."
However, particular scorn was heaped upon the claim that the Cell is being "hobbled" by slow memory access - based on a Devstation slide which shows Cell having only 16Mb/s read access to "Local Memory", compared to the 10-25Gb/s access figures for other component and memory types in the PS3.
"They've got the wrong end of the stick grasped firmly in both hands," said another source regarding this claim. "I'm not even sure if they're holding the right stick."
"I didn't see that slide at Devstation, but all the numbers add up," one coder said, "and it's a total non-issue. You never, ever need to access that memory from the Cell - I can think of some useful debugging things you might do with that access in the testing stage, but that's about it. In fact, on the PS2 you couldn't access that memory from the CPU at all, and it was never really a problem!"
Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.
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Huzaifah from eXputer: "Sleeping Dogs from the early 2010s is one of the best open-world games out there but in dire need of a resurgence."
You say "yet" as if it's even possible anymore. United Front Games is gone, along with anyone that made this game what it is
That’s what happens when games sell poorly. And I’ve seen people wonder why people cry when a game sells badly… this is your answer.
Majority of the time it's true but if a company/publisher is big (in terms of money), they can take a hit or 2. e.g. I am not worried about Rebirth sales as Square will make Remake 3 anyway but if FF 17 doesn't sell then Square might need to look for alternative. <-- my humble opinion
Oh okay, Activision owned True Crime, but when that didn’t sell as intended it was canceled. Six months later Square Enix bought the rights and changed the title to Sleeping Dogs.*
*As per Wikipedia
Sleeping Dogs was a sleeper hit back then. It was fantastic. It actually still is. Would love a sequel to this, or at least a revive of True Crime series.
Sony fans there's your answer from a developer not some non-imformed sony basher. The inquirer is the worst place to get news and the next person who post some of their news here should be banned.
No way the cell or gpu is broken and these developers would keep going about making games on it. They would lose way too much money and that's the truth
If you are nothing more the a 360 fan boy please quit viewing our topics. You have voted on just about every PS3 topic and if it's good news you put down on it, and if it's bad news you praise it. You are what made the previous site have so many problems. This is good news for the PS3 it proves that this was all just pointless information that someone tried to leak out and make Sony look bad. I'm glad this information was shown to be nothing important.
PAUL CERULA you need to really quit acting like a spoiled 360 fanboy and you can't stand the fact that the PS3 is doing an awesome job and will bring true next-gen gameplay. PS3 is #1
I think that is where all the 360 fans get there information "ps3 games are coming to the 360" from. Like FFXIII, DMC4, Assassin's Creed, UT2007 and so on, the list could go on forever if I continuse. LOL.
The topic saids Top developers slam PS3 broken allegations. Not one developers name or company name was brought up. All you read in that story is according to our sources, thats it. I would have loved to hear how Konami developers, Capcoms developers or maybe Square Enix developers, names come up, but nothing. I can't go on this story as well as the Inquire story. There is no proof that this occurred.
Boy its damn hard not to say I told you so!