Working with the PS3

MCV Writes: "As one of the UK's leading animation studios, that works across numerous media and entertainment platforms, our day to day business has been hugely affected by Sony's PS3. "

[LenHart]

that british devs are praising the power of the PS3

[Kazuo Hirai]

RROD

PLAY BEYOND

[drunkleg]

Give it up Ace, your busted.

[Mercutio]

Is amazing, say what you want, but after seeing Grand Tourismo 5 and KillZone 2. I can see why this guy says what he says.

[clintos59]

I mean if third party devs created an engine strictly just for the ps3 just like Insomniac and Naughty Dog has done, I can see games looking way better on the ps3 then the 360. Its the honest truth, no fanboy crap here, I let the games do the talking for me.

[reaferfore20]

Amazing. This artical is boring.

[Kazuo Hirai]

The Playstation 3 delivers the definitive HD experience for gamers and movie fans alike,and provides developers with the most powerful video game technology to date.

It saddens me that the competition is disappointing developers and gamers,it really does.

[SL1M DADDY]

Yet again you amaze me with your incite. So, how's Ken doing these days?

[SaiyanFury]

My question, is he really Hirai Kazuo-san?

[drunkleg]

I see the multiple account bandit is at it again. Maybe I should send an admin a list, and let those 30+ accounts go to waste. Think that's a good idea Ace?

[Guitarded]

the PS2 is the weakest console of last gen. It also saddens me that the PS3 is hampering developers with its stupid architecture that only devs with huge budgets and unusually long dev cycles can take advantage of all that supposed power. Metal Gear and GT5 make my point for me. I can see you are very sad.

[SL1M DADDY]

If this stuff actually "saddens" you then you sir, have some deep rooted issues you might want to take a look into. It's gaming, not world hunger.

[SUP3R]

After noticing every 3rd word in the article is PS3, I couldn't read it anymore.
I'm sure he's talking about stuff I already know anyway.

[Omegasyde]

"The PS3 is capable of such amazing graphic quality that throughout the whole games industry the bar on production values has been raised dramatically. This dramatic step forward in production values has pitted the games industry, and the PS3 as an entertainment format, directly against movies and television in the mainstream."

I believe this guy was paid. Probably with lap dances.

TO Phantom Disagree-ers: Try reading the article, the guys motivation for working with the ps3 is like hes being interviewed on painkillers and tequilia. Either that or someone is standing behind him with a gun.

[kindi_boy]

Can't agree more lmao!

[drunkleg]

Don't sweat the disagrees Omega. I've logged this guy(s) i.p. and he has over 30 accounts he's been using to promote sony and trash MS. You actually only have 4 legit disagrees so far. Isn't that right Hydrolex. I'm thinking sony might have them a little "gold farmer" company working this site. I've also traced the I.P. to PSU, and SPG. When I finally get some form of proof of payment, we'll have a very interesting story to read about here at N4G.

[nevimkdojsem2]

". I've logged this guy(s) i.p. and he has over 30 accounts he's been using to promote sony and trash MS."

There's no way to find out from which IP addresses posts and (dis)agrees come unless you have admin access rights to the webserver n4g.com is running on and can read its access log files. You have no idea about how TCP/IP and WWW protocols work, you wannabe hacker.

[drunkleg]

right on cue : )
I'll bet you wish you knew what I do for living.

[JoelR]

And I bet you know that it is illegal to hack for those IPs....
see you in Jail soonest if what you say is true.
And if you work for a ISP and are collecting the data that way - it's still illegal and grounds for immediate dismissal.
And if you worked for the Site - you would have banned his assests already and would not go around bragging about so called logging

SO SHUT THE HELL UP OR PUT UP AND GO TO JAIL

[drunkleg]

Don't you worry about me.

[LinuxGuru]

That was such a short, lame-ass little article, and it described nothing of what it is like to work with the PS3.

[SL1M DADDY]

In short, these words were used to describe what it is like to work with the PS3:

Amazing

Dramatic

Successful

Impressive

Quality

Convergence

Excited

All-encompasing

Entertainment

It is in these words used that we see how wonderful it was for this particular dev to work with the PS3.

[Guitarded]

far up Sonys butt this guy is.

[SL1M DADDY]

Well, that may be so but it was enough to pull you out of MS's butt long enough to post here... Right? Now, off you go, back into the colon of your beloved MS and don't miss the OPEN ZONE on your way there. --->

[RememberThe357]

Why else would he be kissing Sony's ass so much?

[Captain Tuttle]

Exactly. He's got a brown spot on the end of his nose there...

[InMyOpinion]

Axis Animation have worked with Sony since Killzone 1. They were also mentioned in the buzz surrounding the pre-rendered E3 2005 trailer of Killzone 2.

Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just that Axis might not have any references to than any of the other consoles.

[clintos59]

I am kind of tired of being yelled at by fanboys so yeah.

[Sir Ken Kutaragi]

Of Course!!! ;-P

[felidae]

i've been a huge PS3 fan(boy) but now i've to admit that i realized that the system svcks major a** compared to the xbox 360.

amazing graphics? .... ok, some games, like Uncharted, Heavenly Sword and Motorstorm are looking very good. but the rest is just meh.

every multiplatform game i know performs better on the 360, even GTA IV (on- and offline) i don't know why but it's just like that. i played through the whole game on PS3 and sometimes the framerate dropped below 20 where on the xbox 360 everything runs smooth and fine - why? i paid so much money for the PS3 just to get games that look and play much worse than on the xbox 360?

because of framerate problems and online lagging i sold my ps3 and got a 360 again.

Jericho, PES 2008, Condemned 2, Kane & Lynch, Dark Sector, Turok, The Darkness, EA's skate (OMG), NBA 2K 08, Assassin's Creed, GTA IV, Army Of Two and many many more.

all these games gave me a headache when playing them on the ps3 because 1. they got framerate problems, 2. the controls with the SIXAXIS are not nearly as good as with the 360 controller and 3. the online in some games svcked major a** over PSN.

here's a link to a framerate comparison of GTA IV on PS3 and 360 - so go and see for yourself. it may be nitpicking but if it hinders the gameplay ...

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

[spectyre]

You've played all those games on both systems? I thing you have bigger problems beside which console to pick.

Back on topic: This guy is definately in the Sony camp. Any cross platform dev would never single out a console, no matter what his opinion is.(unless you work at Valve)

[nevimkdojsem2]

"Jericho, Kane & Lynch, Dark Sector, Turok, The Darkness, EA's skate (OMG), NBA 2K 08, Assassin's Creed, Army Of Two.... "

I regret you for having to play those games... I wouldn't play them on any platform even if they paid me for that. You must be either unemployed, have bad taste or an inclination towards masochism.

[KatanaSteel]

Did you fall down and smack your silly little head? To tell the absolute truth, the Xbox 360 is in no way superior to the PS3. Anybody who can say the 360 has more potential, power, etc is living in a fantasy world. As for your list of games, they were created by some of the laziest devs on the planet, and obviously they're going to prefer to developer a game for an architecture they're already acquainted with, the 360's being somewhat similar to a PC's.

But if you want to miss out on R2, K2, FFXIII/Versus, GT5, MGS4, LBP, and the many other PS3 exclusives then go right ahead.

[Vino]

Well to me I'm not really impressed with the Ps3, and the xbox360, their's only a few games that I want on them, graphics don't impress me anymore because the only thing I wanted was next-gen gameplay mechanics. I want to buy a ps3 and a 360 this year but with all this my console is better than yours policy by Sony and Microsoft a part of me I'm not buying into what they say anymore. Anyhow when I get a ps3 and a 360 this year I plan to never come back on a game forum.

[Says you]

Own engine is actually better then buying one but then again alot of developers would buy engines instead of trying to create one witness the power of Killzone 2 Resistance 2 and idontcare those test mean nothing they probably didn't even take the test they just probably made up numbers and you say the XBox 360 GTA IV is running smooth yeah right!.

[RAM MAGNUMS]

that was the hugest lie I ever heard of. If its true, this guy has to be the biggest follower. the extremist case of a.d.d in idontcares logic.
He would have to believe in all the hype everytime sometthing was printed to be trading back & forth consoles to play what he thought was better at the time.
Whats even funnier is that when he tries to trade his xbox 360 again for a ps3, it might just rrod right in the store! OOoooops.
He must have a special suitcase to be lugging consoles all the time.
GTA framerate better on xbox 360? Are you insane? I bet you though it was smooth on call f duty 4 too?
you just got smashed right there. LOL ar your comment.

[tk]

Sounds more like and advert than news...

[LinuxGuru]

I don't like descriptive words.

Talk about animation. Talk about lighting. Talk about how the PS3 enables serious acceleration of these elements of a game engine.

Don't tell me ooooh wowwww AWESOME teh PS3 is AMZING!

It's wonderful, great, superb, fantastic....

but what makes it so?

[AuToFiRE]

the PS3 is a beautiful piece of engineering