MonkeyMajiks
11-08-2007, 08:19 AM
Taken from Kotaku.
IO's Morten Heiberg says:
It's a new platform for us. It's our first PS3 game. It's a challenging platform to develop on, but it's also one that has a lot of potential that's just waiting to be unlocked as people get to know it better and as developers get more skilled at utilizing the machine.
and goes on to say,
It's a very different approach. The code ends up being rather different than it is on the Xbox and the PC. You can start with something that's pretty much the same and then you try to run it on the PS3 and it doesn't run very well. Then you start to optimize it and optimize it and you get further away from where you started but you really start to unlock some of the potential of the PS3... Well obviously it's something that requires a bit of resources and special effort, which costs money. But on the other hand it's something that I think most developers are rather keen on getting into because it's a new fresh system and it's an interesting architecture. Development wise it's fun. It brings back a lot of memories from college and university. In many ways it's a fun architecture to work on but definitely one that's also going to cost you some money because you need to write special purpose code for it.
I like the fact, that firstly we aren't getting a shoddy port for the PS3 Kane and Lynch looks to be a great game.
Secondly, it's really great to see a multi platform developer not complaining about the PS3 architecture, getting stuck in and excited about the additional functionality that the PS3 offers. We don't hear about dev's complaining
"Stupid 360 users, why should we add achievements to a game? What a load of hassle that is"
Because it's fun, a great idea, and increases the replayability. It's a no-brainer, make game better for a few weeks extra dev, sell more copies....
Why this logic doesn't apply to EA and their sub-par, PS3 ports with bad bad bad frame rate issue, i don't know....:rolleyes:
IO's Morten Heiberg says:
It's a new platform for us. It's our first PS3 game. It's a challenging platform to develop on, but it's also one that has a lot of potential that's just waiting to be unlocked as people get to know it better and as developers get more skilled at utilizing the machine.
and goes on to say,
It's a very different approach. The code ends up being rather different than it is on the Xbox and the PC. You can start with something that's pretty much the same and then you try to run it on the PS3 and it doesn't run very well. Then you start to optimize it and optimize it and you get further away from where you started but you really start to unlock some of the potential of the PS3... Well obviously it's something that requires a bit of resources and special effort, which costs money. But on the other hand it's something that I think most developers are rather keen on getting into because it's a new fresh system and it's an interesting architecture. Development wise it's fun. It brings back a lot of memories from college and university. In many ways it's a fun architecture to work on but definitely one that's also going to cost you some money because you need to write special purpose code for it.
I like the fact, that firstly we aren't getting a shoddy port for the PS3 Kane and Lynch looks to be a great game.
Secondly, it's really great to see a multi platform developer not complaining about the PS3 architecture, getting stuck in and excited about the additional functionality that the PS3 offers. We don't hear about dev's complaining
"Stupid 360 users, why should we add achievements to a game? What a load of hassle that is"
Because it's fun, a great idea, and increases the replayability. It's a no-brainer, make game better for a few weeks extra dev, sell more copies....
Why this logic doesn't apply to EA and their sub-par, PS3 ports with bad bad bad frame rate issue, i don't know....:rolleyes: