"PlayStation 3 is going to eat up huge amounts of content. We need 50GB of storage on a disc in order to really bring those games to life. There's no way
Xbox 360 can compete because they're only using DVD."
This comes on the back of Bill Gate's comments directly challenging the PS3 release.
'The day Sony launches [the new PlayStation], and they walk right into Halo 3.'
This all seems to be a bit much for the game developers with Gabe Newell, the Founder and Managing Director of Valve, who has come out this week sheading some darkness on the light of the new consoles.
Technologically, I think every game developer should be terrified of the next generation of processors. Your existing code, you can just throw it away. It's not going to be helpful in creating next generation game titles.
Most of the problems of getting these systems running on these multicore processors are not solved. They are doctoral theses, not known implementation problems. So it's not even clear that over the lifespan of these next generation systems that they will be solved problems. The amount of time it takes to get a good multicore engine running, the Xbox 360 might not even be on the market any longer. That should scare the crap out of everybody.
Maybe it will be end of the giant consoles as we know it with the humble revolution rising from the ashes with it's plethora of downloadable back catalogue.
Unlikely I know but nothing a Big Nintendo Fan hasn't drempt of already...
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There was a good discussion about the complexity of the new systems on the Geek Speak Radio podcast a few weeks back. They talked about how developers were complaining because they couldn't do it the old way and how much work they would have to do. Some say that they have been spoilt over the last few years with current technology and that it's time to get over being lazy. It was quite interesting
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