The Video Game Revue

PS3 Performance Critiqued

I stumbled across the following post (from a game developer's blog) about the PS3's hardware:

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

A lot of what he is saying is new to me. In brief,

- The Xbox 360 has significantly better fill rate than the PS3.
- The PS3 Blu-Ray drive is slower to load data off of a Blu-Ray disc than the 360's DVD drive is to load data off of a DVD.
- Multi-threading game code to take advantage of the cell processor is challenging for game developers.

The general point that he's trying to make is that the common belief that the PS3 has much better hardware than the Xbox 360 is, in his opinion, misguided. I have to admit, I still have some trouble letting go of the idea that the PS3 is easily more powerful. :) But then, I haven't seen a PS3 game yet that looks much better than the best looking Xbox 360 games.

posted by Parappa @ 4:10 PM