PS3 owners rejoice?

[noxibox]

I despise multiplatform releases, as the programmers have to cater to the lowest common denominator and one console always suffers.

There is no reason to be targeting a lowest common denominator. Unless you're a purely exclusive developer like Naughty Dog you would have separate programming teams each working on the version for their platform. Even Naughty Dog could go non-exclusive without compromising quality. You don't necessarily have to release simultaneously.

If programmers really were catering to the lowest common denominator they'd develop for DS, then do a quick and dirty dump to every other platform.

Ports are especially bad when the game was originally developed for one system and then ported as an afterthought to make some quick cash.

Not really the same thing. Ports are perfectly fine when done correctly.

If a company generally does sloppy ports are they really likely to be typically putting any real effort even if they were only releasing exclusively for a single platform?

 

[sabagamma]

am I the only one that is crying here? I mean, how the FSCK AM I GONNA AFFORD THOSE GAMES????????????? I mean, I gotta save cash for about 1 game every 2 months, I don't get much cash to take home and slash with, and I usually spend it on booze

lol... I believe the bank manager might get a call form me

Gotta agree with you about game prices. I guess we have to bail out MS' poor quality (RROD) and the Sony's format wars (BR).

 

[feo]

UK, January 4, 2008 - Sony's great white hope - the quite wonderful looking LittleBigPlanet - looks nearer to finding its way into our homes, with Sony insiders confirming they are working to get the game out in the UK for this September.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/843/843540p1.html

Oh well, there goes the April date. At least this piece of news is from a reputable source so late Q3 early Q4 looks likely to be the release date.

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

There is no reason to be targeting a lowest common denominator. Unless you're a purely exclusive developer like Naughty Dog you would have separate programming teams each working on the version for their platform. Even Naughty Dog could go non-exclusive without compromising quality. You don't necessarily have to release simultaneously.

Precisely. My own thoughts about the limits of each console aside, current games should be running fine on both PS3 and 360. Call of Duty 4 is one good example of how having 2 separate dev teams each working on a version results in the game running fine on the both consoles as opposed to porting one to the other. Of course the assumption is that poor performance of some non-exclusives on the PS3 is a result of a poor port...but nobody can say for sure