Xbox 360 vs. PS3 Spec Analysis

Perfect Stu · 05-24-2005, 11:04 PM

it's not so much the processor as the development language

personally, I would trust the word of someone who has actually worked on a PS3 game (even in a press conference to build hype) over yourself, who hasnt. it's no offense, it just seems like proper logic

but that's only what I believe at this point and time...we'll know the truth in just over a year when we start to see multiplatform next-gen games

gekko · 05-24-2005, 11:38 PM

The development language is the same. Libraries are different.

Who has worked on a PS3 game? I've yet to see anyone.

Null · 05-25-2005, 09:10 AM

While mark rein doesnt program the games, he does follow along and have a very good understanding of them, he is very close with the people who do make the games at epic, hes a frequent poster on the epic message boards and explains much of that stuff along with the actual programers.

it may or may not be AS well off as he claims, but i dont think he's too far off in his comments.

well just have to wait and see what developers are saying in the first year of release tho to see how easy it is to program the games.

MuGen · 05-25-2005, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by gekko

The development language is the same. Libraries are different.

Who has worked on a PS3 game? I've yet to see anyone.

The GPU is accessed and programmed with OpenGL and XML, an open-source language widely used today and is widely favored by many programmers.

The CELL is accessed using C++ calculating language.

It doesn' t matter which processor is more widely known. It's the way they access it in terms of coding. Cell has been confirmed to be running on C++ programming....

Dyne · 05-25-2005, 02:38 PM

That's annoying. Here Universities did the paradigm shift from C++ to Java, and now people are still going to be using C++ in the future.

Null · 05-25-2005, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

That's annoying. Here Universities did the paradigm shift from C++ to Java, and now people are still going to be using C++ in the future.

Java was never going to replace C++, only thing good about java is that it runs on all the different platforms, but it was never better then C++ for anything, Java actually runs like 10 times slower then C++.

gekko · 05-26-2005, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Sony

It doesn' t matter which processor is more widely known. It's the way they access it in terms of coding. Cell has been confirmed to be running on C++ programming....

It doesn't? Sure does.

Like I said before, it's not the coding, it's the libraries. The different way that the processors handle and display information, the different way they store information into memory. It changes between systems. If you want to get good performance, you need to rework the engine to work with that specific hardware.

If it worked like you say, porting a game would be no different than putting the game on a different disc. It's not that simple.

The processor doesn't read C++ either. Programming languages are designed to be a modified form of English, and then you compile it, put it in machine code.