Devs Problems: Games use 30% Sony PS3’s Power & 60% Xbox 360’s
Filed under: News | By: Daniel
Posted on: November 6, 2007 | 52 Comments
As we featured a really good comment the other day that was a little more on the 360’s side about Devs Problems and the lack of memory on Sony PS3, plus storage on Xbox 360.
We thought we should feature some news about games apparently using up to 30% of the Sony PS3’s Power and 60% of Xbox 360’s.
David Taylor makes this claim and even backs it up with some sources to where he got that information from.
Here is what David Taylor said:
And even though no one has a clue who this person is or if what they say holds any truth his claims will be repeated all over the place as fact by retarded 360 fanboys.
Devs who have worked on the PS3 such as naughty dog are saying they have only used 30% of the PS3s power.
According to the devs Motorstorm apparently only uses between 15% and 20% of potential:
See ps3.qj.net Under the hood of MotorStorm
EA said in December they were using 20% of the PS3s power:
See kotaku.com EA Games Use 20 Percent of PS3’s Power
On the other hand the developers of lost Planet said last year they were using 60% of the 360s power:
See the news on xbox365.com
This guy is just another hater hiding behind pseudo made up science and anonymity. There are no memory size problems at all with the PS3 if you know how to code for it. It has exactly the same amount of memory as the 360. In fact there is less of a strain on the PS3s memory because it can cache to the hard drive. Why do all these so called experts always forget about that?
The FACT remains that the PS3 is more powerful which is why Microsoft will not allow the 360 to essentially be bench marked against it in Folding@home. PS3 games are already at the same graphical level as the 360.
This statement really sums up what an idiot this guy is:
“All it will take is one REALLY good game, yet to come, on the PS3, with exceptional graphics and very heavy scripting, and it will absolutely bring that machine to its knees.”
Really? What like Ratchet & Clank did? Its also funny how Oblivion which is one of the most technically demanding games on any platform runs better on the PS3 than the 360.
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Folding@home is very good example. Why don’t M$ let Xbox 360 get on the Standford network to help humanity? Put 360 on folding@home, this will settle the argument “PS3vs360″ once for all.
Just DO IT!!! M$
because folding@home is BREAKING PS3’s. Every single solitary person I know that uses or used f@h has sent, or is sending their PS3 in for repairs or has sent it in more than once… since UNINSTALLING the program my PS3 has it has run better and then it did on launch day. The PS3 is great for crunching numbers, but please don’t confuse the two.
Oblivion on my PS3 is better graphically and quicker loading than my PC and 360.
I like all my consoles but you just cant compare PS3 to a 360 - the PS3 whoops its ass and its only been out for like 8-9 months! PS3 is a power machine, if my 360 tried to play R&C it would burn up and go to the ring of death cemetery
Its NOT about power!! Hasnt the Wii taught us anything yet?? ITs about the games!! THe most powerful console has never won a console war ever! The one with the best games did! Neo Geo, Jaguar, 3do, CDI, and even xbox 1. Lair is best looking game so far and it sucks and Nintendogs is the ugliest ever and has now outsold Grand theft auto 3!!!
First off folding home has nothing to do with gaming. Second Rachet and Clank isn’t selling like crazy in fact Ace Combat 6 had a better opening. Third even after a price drop, bundles, and even a 40 gig sku the PS3 is still getting beat by the 360 in world wide sales. The memory constraint is a real issue and in fact has been the main culprit as to why most 360 - PS3 ports suck. Think about this why would it be easier to tranfer code from a “Superior” console to a weaker one? Its simple the 360 has MORE MEMORY or at least has memory set up to be used how developers want it to be versus the segragation found on the PS3. I also doubt one good game on the PS3 will stand against a whole shitload of good games on the 360 it hasn’t so far.
At last. Someone writing something worthwhile reading. I can’t wait for MGS, Killzone 2 and Little Big Planet. Then PS3 will be definitely worth having. I already think it is however, Warhawk is the best multilayer game out there..
And to eugene:
The wii is not doing better because it has good games. Many of my friends say they haven’t bought a new wii game for ages.. coz there’s none out!! The wii sells well because it’s made the market accessible to different markets, people who wouldn’t think of playing a games console before. Although in my opinion it’s just another way of pressing a button!
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If Cell offered any real performance IBM would have used it in P, I, and Z series servers. They dont.
Apple who was offered the option of Cell would have taken it. They didn’t. In fact it’s pretty clear to all that Cell offers about the same performance as a high end PPC G4 or a low end G5. Both of these are obsolete in terms of being competitive to current CPU’s used in desktop PC’s and servers. Cell is quite zippy for a video game console - but don’t talk it up any further.
So in summary, COD4 on PS3, running at 1080p uses 30% of the PS3’s power (despite being out a year less than the 360), and the 360 version of COD4 runsd 720p** and uses 60% of the power.
**Talking native resolutions here, COD4 on the 360 can be displayed at 1080p, due the to 720p upscaler chip in the 360, but it’s no alterntive for REAL resolution.
In the last generation, Xbox was more powerful and had more “potential” than PS2, (and so was GameCube,) but all those power and potential did not help Xbox (nor GameCube) win the console war in last gen.
Why?
Because PS2 reigned supreme in the software department amongst the last gen consoles. Xbox might have few killer apps, (Halo and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic come to mind,) but PS2 undeniably had many, many times more better titles than Xbox had.
For this generation, Sony (and their fans) can keep on telling people how much power and potential PS3 has over Xbox 360, but all that power is not going to matter much - when Xbox 360 has so many more great titles. It’s just like how all the power and potential Xbox (or GameCube) had did not matter in the end.
People don’t buy a console to play the CPU or drive. They buy the console to play games.
Let’s take a look at the number of total and great titles Xbox 360 and PS3 have, and compare their libraries:
http://www.metacritic.com/games/xbox360/scores/
http://www.metacritic.com/games/ps3/scores/
Xbox 360 has THREE TIMES more titles than PS3 (i.e., 290 vs 96 at the time of writing this) and over TWO-AND-HALF TIMES more “green” titles (128 vs 49, green means good or okay games.)
Xbox 360 has 10 titles that rank 90% or over; over half of them are exclusives. PS3 has… one, which is not even an exclusive - the one title PS3 has that’s over 90% is also on Xbox 360 as well. PS3 still does not have a single exclusive that score 90% or above at Metacritic.
Don’t tell me that all those games do not matter, but somehow Cell, Blu-ray and “potential” do. I’m a gamer, and games matter to me. Cell, Blu-ray, and “potential” do not. I can’t play potential.
Next year, PS3 will have MGS4 and FFXIII, two very big titles. But that’s next year. And just as Halo and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic could not save Xbox from PS2, I wouldn’t count on a couple of big titles to make too much difference.
And if those two titles do turn out to be great system sellers, then gamers should get a PS3, NEXT YEAR, when the prices of PS3 will definitely go down (as they always do as time passes.)
Hmm, though it could be similar with COD4, he actually didn’t say anything about COD4. It is more a comparison about Uncharted Ps3 vs. Lost Planet 360.
I know that the PS3 are really more powerfull
that the X360, but what matter is the Games.
what afraid me is that the ?X360 has a poor lineup for 2008, and the PS3 and Wii still
really strong in this year…
The 3rl are past now, but the resolution of this
problem come too late, and now the PS3 and Wii
are too strong..
Good look for Mic, he will need this.