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PS3′s inFAMOUS: Not possible on Xbox 360 says employee

PS3′s inFAMOUS: Not possible on Xbox 360 says employee

By: Alan Ng | May 14, 2009 | 55 Comments

It has been reported that one of the employees from Sucker Punch, the development team behind PS3 exclusive inFAMOUS has said that the game is only possbile on the Playstation 3.

As reported from theGamerAccess, the comments came in a video titled ‘The Tech behind inFAMOUS’, where developers sat down and discussed the game.

The employee from Sucker Punch said that they had used the PS3′s hardware to their advantage and stated that the ”PS3 is really the only place we could have made this.

What do you think of these claims? If you’ve had a chance to sample the inFAMOUS demo, you might have a better idea on what they are getting at here. Take a look at the video though, over at GA and let us know what your opinions are.

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  • secondknight

    die xbox die ha ha
    ps3 all the way

  • words

    Not sure any of us said that.

  • dave

    Yawn yawn yawn, more childish BS. How many times have we heard this about exclusives only to see them ported some time later. They say this shit to butter up ps3 owners so they buy the game. The game does look great but to say it would not be possible on the x360 is stupid. The 1 and only development advantage the ps3 has over the x360 is the disc size and even that is very easily overcome.

  • Carling

    dave. are u talking about file and data compression? u do no that the game want look as good wen compressed and it will push the xbox hardware more. u will lose sound and visual. they just 1 way they can do this and that is install data 2 a harddrive but then the xbox 360 has core no harddrive. i think thats 2 thing the ps3 has over the xbox. am a pc gamer just like the ps3 as well free online loving it. is that now 3 things? lol

  • MadAsHell

    I’m getting tired of these only possbile on (incert console name here) claims by devs, they are clearly an advertising tool designed to get the fanboys to do their work for them.

    Having seen the demo, i’m not sure i would buy this game on either console, it just seemed boring & generic to me but i’ll reserve full judgment for when i get the chance to play the demo for myself.

    I know i am fortunate in being able to own both PS3 & Xbox360 but i still don’t know why those with only one feel the need to appear superior in some way by their choice of console, i guess it must be a form of overcompensating for something.

  • lou

    i love both consoles, but killzone 2 and infamous, i dont think 360 could pull off . one of the biggest problems is bluray, 360 does not have the space, next is ps3 has 8 processors running at 3.2 each, 360 has 3@ 3.2, also the ps3 has more memory and a better graphics card running at 550 htz compared to 360 @500, there are other specs that the ps3 just smacks the 360, the 360 is a good system, however sony lookes to the future when they built there system , so much no one could develop on it for a while, there was quiet a learning curve. the last few sony exclusives from sony , you can really see a big difference in graphics and smooth game play vs. 360

  • lou

    boy you really get the 360 fan boys going with this, i dont care who makes the system, if yamaha or apple, made the system, if one is better its better. ps3 was made to last , that is why microsoft is releasing a new xbox around 2012 with bluray, the 360 is maxed out with what it can do, we have for the most part seen the most it can do, which is good, the new halo 3 may look better , i hope , they may of learned a few new tricks, i just love good games, dont give a shit if phillips makes it, just bring the good games, all fan boys are missing out , if you limit yourself to one system , you are missing out, both sony and microsoft have great games, put your pepe away and just play

  • dave

    You just put it on more than one disc. Its not the end of the world for gods sake, unless you are too lazy to get up and change the disc.

  • lou

    yah i really want to get up put multiple discs in , wait for load time, and all that fun stuff, and there is more, the 360 DOES NOT HAVE THE BALLS . microsoft tried to put blu ray on the current 360 and was shot down, they are working a deal for there new system , for god sakes

  • Joey

    Lol Lou before you make judgements about which one is better, I have both systems by the way. the Cell processor is faster then the 360 but the graphics card is slower on the ps3 then it is on the 360. You should look at some of the specs. mhz doesnt always been faster chips. and as for 3.2 ghz x 8 lol thats wrong too its 8 processors but 7 are dedicated smaller processors running at a slower speed then 3.2 and a main processor running at 3.2 lol dude do your homework. Fanboys are so oldschool now. Lets jusr praise both companies for coming out with sick games. enough said.

  • lou

    hay big guy, i also own both systems, and have game developers in the family, actually, sony is using 7 processors and has not even tapped the 8 th. i have done my homework maybe you should take another look, and look carfully. im a game fan boy, there are things i like and dislike about both systems, the ps3 is faster and has more you can do programming wise. it is what it is. take a look at the full picture. if you need real system specs on both systems ill be glad to email them to you.

  • Bandolero

    Well you’ve heard it a lot from developer from 360 camp in which none of the games that they claim they could do none have been done on 360 they mentioned K2 and mgs4 now infamous the proof is that ps3 exclusives are totally better and more technical that’s that plus what do people saying these thing get out of NOTHING bottom line ps3 is better and 360 is showing age after 4 years that is sad. Every title ps3 has release the 360 fanboys or camp has always post stupid articles that 360 can do it who cares? People could be so ignorant sometimes.

  • Bandolero

    If you think it’s only multiple discs keep dreaming there is more than just the disc quantity on hardware deference..

  • hittm4n

    could you please learn some basic English… you know, things like grammar beyond that of a first grade education before posting on the internet? I mean, I was considering reading your post until about 12 words in when my comprehension cortex punched me in the face for making it process such a sentence. I sorely hope that you are not an adequate reflection of the entire PS3 fan base, or there is little hope for any halfway decent debates.

  • Dan

    Yes the online is free for ps3 owners like myself, but xbox live is far better. As an xbox owner also i know. Plus it only costs £40/$60 a year! With what my ps3 costed me i could by and xbox then run xbox live for a few years! But this is a great PS3 exclusive :) Having said that I generally prefer the games on the xbox to be honest. I wish they just released a universal console that had the advantages of both put together, and the choice of controller type… would make life SO much easier.

  • Slippy Sloppy

    I’m sorry but this is complete bull, I’ve got the game it looks like it could have been done on the Wii. The graphics would be unacceptable on the 360 and doesn’t displaying anything the PS2 or Gamecube didn’t on Spider-Man 2. It’s great how the city expands and decays but the lo resolution and jaggies look horrible and are unacceptable for a 1st party game and on a machine that endlessly boasts how powerful it is.

  • Random Bystander

    Microsift and Sony, I love them both , but because of Childish difrences and the greed for money wont ever make a system that you are refering to. I must admit it would be the best and so many people would buy it, but no, they would never agree to that.

  • Random Bystandard

    Hey hey hey. lets not be cruel. I will admit that my friends father works at sony, the sports games and he said not to buy the PS3 and to get the 360 because the blue ray is so “slow” they need to put the same info onto the games disc multiple times just to increase the load times. even if they have 3 PS3′s, they are the earlier versions and they are the better ones.

  • kreem

    I’ve played the demo and there is NOTHING in that game that the 360 couldn’t do and more. The game looks like garbage and the gameplay is equally poor. The 360 is a much better machine than the ps3 (I own both – thats my opinion) – you can install FULL games to the 360′s hard drive – can’t do that with the ps3 can you? Nope – stuck with slooooow transfers from the bluray drive.

  • andrew

    lou the ps3 has 512mb and 96mb is used by the operating system so that leaves 416mb (224mb to the gpu and 192mb to the cpu) for game developers, the 360 has 512mb and 32mb is used by the operating system so that leaves 480mb (240mb to the gpu and 240mb to the cpu) for game developers, scientists have proven that the 360s gpu is better than the ps3s gpu, they found the RSX to be cloced at 500mhz not 550mhz plus it has no edram while the 360s gpu has 10mb edram so you tell me which is better now.

  • Anonymous

    Nice game.
    Both are nice consoles.The differences compensates for their exclusive games.

    I only play sports game on 360, nd they dont come as exclusive so im fine.

  • Dan

    Wow Lou you must feel like a tard. Xbox with bluray. Yeah i dont think so. Microsoft doesnt care if you need to change discs. Their console performs better. Also you need to check your developer sources regarding the ps3 only using 7 cores. Anything with more then 1 core should always be using every core that is available. If you have 8 cores and are using 7 then what the hell is the 8th doing. Rather the OS should and would be smart enough to decrease the amount of work each cpu is doing, offload some of those processes onto the 8th core so it is all equal and overall save heat in the process. Which we all know heat is what slows down a cpu. Btw the 360 has the PS3 beat with less hardware specs and a cheaper price. Your beloved 6x bluray really only tacked on 300 to the price for nothing more then the ability to watch semi sharp dvds and save your fatass time from standing up and walking over to the console to insert a new disc. Forgetting Final Fantasy on the PS2 or PS1. You had to change discs 4 times.

  • Dan

    i am really disseminated that inFamous wont work on any other console because I’m sure that if you could get it to work on the Xbox 360 system then you would get your moneys worth i would also like to say that inFamous is one of the best games i have played

  • Cory

    It really sucks how the infamous videogame will not be able to be on Xbox 360. But im thinking about buying a ps3 becuase i think ps3 does acturally have better graphics than the Xbox 360 truely. I must say though theinfamous game looks SO AWSOME! Theres a 360 game that is just like parkour i think its called something runner and now that infamouse has come out ive been drawing the character non-stop.

  • http://www.youtube.com Brooks

    This is one of those questions that bring out the childish behavoir in people. Everybody who’s a 360 fanboy typically says the PS3 games look like trash, and PS3 fanboys say the same back. I honestly don’t care in the slightest. But this questions makes me curious on so many fronts. inFamous, in my personal opinion, would look terrible graphics wise on the 360. Unless it used the rendering engine Gears used, it would look awful. Not because the 360 is the 360, but because everything on the 360 is insanely bright 90% of the time. When I played Mirror’s Edge at my friends house, I was nearly blind. A comparison video I watched prooved this to not be his TV. I see the 360 running this yes, do I see it doing well at all? No.

  • secondknight hater

    screw you. 360 is awesome.

  • ETBalls

    They are only saying that it can not be put on xbox 360 so that they can make more money on the PS3. Both consoles are really good, but as an xbox fan, I would say they put it on xbox.

  • secondknight hater fan

    Hellz yes!

    It’s not the graphics, it’s the game (though of course you won’t buy it if it looks like it should be on a PS1).

    Xbox has good graphics and has Halo…’nuff said.

  • Pyromaniac

    I am so tired of people arguing which console is better. In my opinion its great to have both I love my ps3 and I love my 360 they both have some pretty awesome games. I wouldnt really say I like one more then the other it just depends if I want to play Killzone or Halo. They are both great consoles and I will continue to enjoy them BOTH for years to come. So just go buy both and stop complaining/ranting.

  • Cooldaddy66

    I know a few people on here have said there’s nothing on Infamous that couldn’t be done on the Xbox 360, but that is untrue.
    Far more data can be put on Blu-Ray without compression and compromising loading times.

    As for online gaming, I do believe the 360 has the edge. On the downside though, you DO have to pay for it and PSN is rapidly getting better.

    I own both consoles and I think they’re both great, but Sony had a long term strategy with the PS3 and I think it will eventually come out on top. But until they bring out brilliant titles like G.O.W.2 for the PS3, I’ll remain loyal to both consoles. :)

  • Jim Profit

    Man, they must pay these guys alot of money to kiss that much ass. Acting as if the game is that advanced where only the PS3 can handle it.

    I’m not going to sit here and praise Microsoft when the only exclusives they have that are any good (or rather WERE good.) are Gears of War, Halo, and Mass Effect. (Yes it was on the PC, but PCs are a non-threat) There’s only so many times a first person shooter can be interesting though..

    There’s a reason most games are on all systems, so that fans can play the games they want, and the creators get paid. Isn’t that the main thing? But ofcourse companies want their product to have the edge. PS3 might have blue ray dvd, but I don’t want a dvd player, I want kickass videogames. Wii has (had) that motion sensor controller. Uninterested. It’s just a spin on their old gaming glove idea anyway. 360 supposedly had the backing of a multi-billion dollar company to produce the best games, especialy for internet capabilities considering it’s motherfucking microsoft.

    Libertarians fail capitalism forever. It isn’t about the best product. They only do something amazing when they have too so they don’t go broke. Capitalism is all about seeing how far you can get doing the bare minimum.

  • Maximo

    Nobody can win an argument over what console is best, i know i have had both…i’ve just parted with my 360 because someone stole my account and took money from me after they migrated my xbox live over to their machine….real secure huh!

    After going through 3 machines in 3 years i think its safe to say for money ps3 lasts longer, ok its costly but your getting a blu-ray player aswell. The games are just as good as the xbox but if your as picky as me and you want to spend £40 on a game that demonstrates the full potential of the console then i’m sorry to let you xbox fans down but you can’t get better than gears and it don’t cut the mustard against PS3′s mgs4.

  • Maximo

    P.S My apologies after what I wrote yesterday….I jinxed myself…got home (had my ps3 8 days) switched it on to get the red screen of death!

    I guess every console has issues…maybe sony and microsoft should redesign their current consoles and test them more extensively for bugs both software and hardware related.

  • lou_is_stupid

    wow lou…are you retarded?
    if you knew there were only 7 processors why did you originally say there were 8, and then come out and say they haven’t even tried tapping the 8th?

    shut up ps3 fanboy

    both consoles are good…youre just mad that microsoft is systematically picking off your “exclusives”

    ahem *gta, final fantasy, etec. etc.*

    also dont bother commenting back…because no matter what you say…you won’t win the argument

    sadly thats just how it works, i win. you lose.

    p.s. youre also mad that we have the most played online game

  • Lou_is_Stupid_ is_Stupider

    wow maybe your the one who’s retarted… Last I checked GTA was never a exclusive.. Infact what was it originally on… hmm lets see ohh COMPUTER. And im sorry, your wrong, xbox doesnt have the most played online game, computer does :)

  • Lol

    Andrew, i highly doubt “SCIENTISTS” have proven that.. In fact it probably hasnt been proven. The xbox is good but its not built to last long.. Look at anything Microsoft makes, it’s built to be replaced and fast.

  • VidKnowItAll

    Technically Speeking the PS3 has One Core Count em One core and 7 Spe’s (Threads) The 360 has Three Cores and 6(Threads) And as a PC Programmer That technically speaking makes the 360 more capable of pooshing more data to the screen. Sony is just trying to make themselves sound “Bigger,” and for the most part it is working to the public. Think about this though, What company do you think sony has to thank to even be running their PC’s and computers, Thats right Microsoft. Let me tell you I will shoot myself the day sony becomes more popular than them.

  • Ronnie Sacco

    As much as I’d love to get InFamous, I’m not going to go out of my way just to get a PS3 when I already have a 360. I’ve seen the PS3, it’s cool and all but can I play Halo, NO!! Prototype is just about the same as Infamous, just different powers. If I could find a real cheap PS3, I might buy it.

  • Ronnie Sacco

    man that suck. I thought my 360 broke once but it just turned out that the system came unplugged. LOL.

  • dood

    I’m pretty sure the smarty smart people who built the machines are ‘scientists’. They might not use beakers or eye droppers filled with strange green liquids but fo sho these guys are building technology with SCIENCE. So I’m pretty sure scientists have proven something. I’m not sure what. But theres enough nerdy scientist game boys out there. So chillax.

  • Tk

    I want it on the xbox so bad. i playied on my friends ps3 and omg.. WANT WANT WANT

  • Billy

    bo these xbox 360 fanboys are absolutely determined to make there console look good.. first thing i don’t give a damn how consoles microsoft sells if they release another console they are forfeiting this gen.. and second you determined 360 fanboys refuse to own up to the fact that the playstation 3 is the superior console killzone 2 and uncharted 2 is just not technically possible on 360 the 360 uses a standard dvd drive and has inferior hardware don’t believe me just look at the exclusive’s from both systems and multi console games don’t count because devs half ass the ps3 version of the game most of the time.. bottom line is xbox 360 is a giant hype machine but the hype is turning into reality the ps3 is the better machine no matter how desperately people want the 360 to be the best console

  • Stephen

    Speaking from a mobile game developer… (myself)

    unless they mean disc size the claim that this couldn’t be made on the xbox is just stupid the graphics on inFamous at nothing special.

    However tech specs aside the ps3 is being used to the max and is producing the best games (UNCHARTED) who cares what the tech spec are like If there isn’t a game that takes advantage. Even tho I’m pretty sur ps rule on tech specs.

    My pc is 8 times better than these consoles but is there a game that looks better than uncharted no way.

  • billy is right but also very WRONG!!!!!!!!!

    Billy you are right that PS3 is the superior system when it comes to technology. and PS3 definately has some great games out, but c’mon, dont you think its a little weird how 360 is superior in a lot of other areas reagardless of technology. So it doesnt have blu-ray, why is it that its a far more popular system still. I’ll tell you. because you payed heaps for your PS3 and you dont want to own up the fact that you didnt get your moneys worth in comparison to the 360. it has a better range of games and its online system (although it isnt free) is far better. plus the controler is far more suited to 1st person shooters which a majority of good games are being released as.

  • Pryce

    I have 360, don’t care how good or fast! I want infamous, and can’t get it! Ps3 please Santa! Nobody give a shit about speed or that crap! Which console has the best games is best! Dremcast vs PS2 is proof

  • big kev

    ha ha people who say the ps3 is the better console are crazy. ive got both nd the loading times on games and the online quality of games on the ps3 are pathetic compared to the 360s ive not managed to have a lag free game on the ps3 and when i play online on the 360 its only the odd time where i get ridiculous lag. the only game on the ps3 which i thought looked great was uncharted 2 where many 360 exclusives have looked impressive ie gears of war 2, mass effect (when that crazy shading problem aint happening) forza motorsport. also ive had my 360 since the day of its release and its only broken once and that was my own fault

  • Redazrael

    Seriously, why the rivalry? Why can't they both be good? I don't have a PS3; I have a 360, and trust me, I get a lot more play time out of that than I ever would on the PS3. But that doesn't mean the PS3 is *bad*.

  • Redazrael

    Even if it would look horrible on the Xbox 360, I care more about storyline and gameplay than the state of the graphics. Do I like things to look absolutely gorgeous? Hell yes. Will it kill me if they're not perfect? No, of course not. There's a reason I'm capable of playing PS1 games and the like without flinching. It's because they're good games on their own.

    I am extremely disappointed that inFAMOUS won't be available on any other platform, though. I desperately want to play it, because it looks like such a damn good game. I won't buy a PS3 just to play version-exclusive games, however; I don't have the money, and even if I did, I just plain wouldn't get much use out of the PS3. The PS3 looks like a perfectly good system (I can't say for certain, as I've never used one myself), but I really prefer the Xbox 360 in general.

  • Redazrael

    (continued from previous comment)

    I've always thought that the very concept of exclusive games was a load of crap, anyway. Make the game for all consoles; to do otherwise isn't fair. I know that sounds immature, but if you're going to make these things for people to enjoy, it seems counter-productive to alienate a good chunk of the target audience.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rstan58 Rowan Stanley

    truth is its not the 360 that sucks iTS MICROSOFT if the 360 was made buy apple or toshiba it would be better as it wouldnt be as faulty like rrod of other faults i have both and i much prefer the ps3 n halo suck serioully whats so good aqbout it?

  • hiom

    not cool why dont they make it for xbox306 its almost the same as the ps3

  • Dannofication

    Your right the 360 would be able to handle it its all about how much they work with the system

  • Dannofication

    I've seen a game go down and infamous 1 could of went down the same way on the 360 it would've used up 75% of its power and infamous 2 would use up almost 90% so it can work on the 360 and I love the PS3.

  • Zack

    uuuuuuugghhhh. I dont even have a ps3. my parents bought me infamous but they didnt know it was for ps3. fml

  • Jcanimal

    you guys are either stubborn or just plane dumb unless you made the game you cant make a claim on what system it would work for stupid ps3 just has more advanced technology put into the system. xbox probably does try harder on its games but without fixing the system (which they’ve tried and failed many times) it doesn’t help alright picture this without any games out for both systems the ps3 would dominate mainly because it doesn’t brake as much and is just a higher quality piece as for you guys if he says it wont work for xbox it wont work for xbox stop being so dang stubborn and open your eyes