PS3 is Not More Powerful than Xbox 360, says Ex-Harmonix Dev

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Sony has said that the PlayStation 3 has more power than Microsoft's Xbox 360, but that it requires a bit of patience and legwork to leverage that power. Jason Booth, a former developer from Harmonix, just doesn't see it happening. He thinks game designers are trying to match PS3 games to 360 games at best.

Jason Booth, a former Turbine and Harmonix developer who has worked on both Guitar Hero games and Rock Band, has posted some interesting comments on his blog regarding "PS3 misconceptions and spin."

http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=17934

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The original blog post is well worth a read:

http://jbooth.blogspot.com/2007/10/ps3-misconceptions-and-spin.html

The last paragraph is especially telling:

Sony let their hardware be designed by a comity of business interests rather than a well thought out design that would serve the game development community. They are going to loose hard this round because of it, and I hope that in the next round they take lessons from this round and produce a more balanced and usable machine.

[Chewy]

looks like quad core with gpu's on die are going to have to lift gaming to the next level

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Even the current GeForce 8800 series are "next-gen" compared to the 7800 equivalent GPU in the PS3, it's just that as usual with game consoles, there's a lot of dedicated hardware and hardware optimization to make them perform better than seemingly equivalent PCs.

To be honest, I find it hard to imagine what the next generation of games will look like - they already look pretty good to me. I guess photo realism is the eventual goal, although some games show that stylised graphics beats realism anytime (and not just games, animated features from Pixar for example).

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The Unreal Engine has some challenges with Sony's system--you'll see with other developers--it's kind of a little late in the game with Epic, which is unfortunate.

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The challenge with the PS3 is getting the access controller right and it's also got less memory to use, the memory is cut.

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