PS3 launch info
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Black Dragon37
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Fingers crossed for the "worldwide released before summer" rumour. 
randycat99
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You didn't answer the question. (what you did, was divert with a different "talking point")
No it won't. It takes 2 years minimum to produce anything even remotely advanced these days. If PS3 launches in the spring of 06, that's only about 6 months "headstart".shred5 said:
You also don't factor in that those 6 months won't be lost to PS3 developers. That's 6 months extra to polish PS3 launch games that x360 devs didn't have. Your entire post reeks of lack of vision and/or bias.
mckmas8808
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<nu>faust said:
I applude you nu. It's good to see someone admit they were wrong. Not enough of that these days.
well the thing got me confused was contradicting comments from different dev sources.(of couse unreliable nature of videogame media helps too ) Acccording to some sources, devs like bizarre got started to get their xbox 360 beta kits right after E3 and then there were reports of developers still not getting their 360 beta kits untill late summer. Plus the way that media uses the term "dev kits" is far from being clear. According to a recent cvg report, Rockstar got their ps3 dev kits and started working on their ps3 project as late as august but its not clear what they mean by dev kits, are they beta kit?s, are they alpha?,why would rockstar wait to get their hand on beta kits to start their projects?i simply don't know.
From what i know microsoft has already started to roll out their final dev kits and sony is supposed to supply the dev with the reference tools around december. So that still gives ms an at least 3 months of advantage. As i said before since there are so many contradicting&confusing reports out there im not sure about the time table. I'd aprreciate of somebody with reliable info shares it with us.
From what i know microsoft has already started to roll out their final dev kits and sony is supposed to supply the dev with the reference tools around december. So that still gives ms an at least 3 months of advantage. As i said before since there are so many contradicting&confusing reports out there im not sure about the time table. I'd aprreciate of somebody with reliable info shares it with us.
mckmas8808
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<nu>faust said:
Again nu that is just not correct. The way I understand it what PS3 devs are getting in December is what Xbox360 devs received at the end of the summer. The 3 full months to program on final kits. If the PS3 is released in March then it would be the same amount of time for both devs on both sides (ie about 3 months).
And what R* received last August was what Square, Konami, and Guerrilla received Alpha kits. Sony didn't have beta out last year.
Hope this clears it up...<nu>faust said:
http://media.ps3.ign.com/articles/635/635630/imgs_1.html
What's important here is that PS3 devkits have had Cell and a GPU similar to RSX in its first devkit since as early as the beginning of this year while Xbox 360 devkits got the CPU and the GPU that have the same characteristics as the real console only a couple months ago. In PS3's case everything except for VRAM bandwidth is promised to improve but for Xbox 360 it's not as simple as that. For example, general-purpose CPU performance declined in a Xbox 360 beta kit.
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