Sony PS3 Developer Says “The 360 Is Better”
Posted by Sean Fallon on January 13, 2006
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PS3 developer Josh Robertson had some interesting things to say recently about his product - the kinds of things that get a man fired.
The original article, which has recently been removed, was posted on Down In Front. Obviously, the controversial nature of his comments got it pulled - but the foks at DNRS managed to save some of the best parts of the article. Here is what Josh had to say:
“Well my immediate impression of the PS3 is… where is it? Seriously, where is it? They have a case, a controller and a dev kit. But the system still doesn’t even exist. So what is there to say? We received one of 5 PS3 dev kits in the United States some time ago. Several companies in the US as well as companies over seas were given the daunting task of creating a demo in less than 9 weeks on a first generation dev kit.
Now I’ll be honest with you. What most companies do is fake the entire demo. I mean they come up with some great visuals and neat tricks and scripted events. In the end however, its not a real time demo and its not running ON the actual box. We were the only company to my knowledge that showed something that ran it live on the box. Even then it was a scripted event. You could not pause the camera and fly around the scene.”
Wow. Killzone anyone? But wait, keep reading -we’re not even at the best part…
“Now I’ve spoken with people who are on the technical side of the PS3. I’ve also talked with people on the technical side of the XBOX 360. The consistent comment I am hearing from people on my end is, “The XBOX 360 is better”. They are saying that it is capable of just doing more.”
The game that we are creating for a launch title is a “just get it out” title in my opinion. It doesn’t look next generation. I don’t see how anyone could debate otherwise. (…) To be fair, this is a business. Sometimes you have to treat it as a business and not make the best title you can. The best title you can make usually costs 20-40million dollars/3 start overs and 4 years of your life. You just cant do that every time out. Its impossible.
In closing, I started of VERY excited about the PS3. I was very confident that it was going to just destroy the XBOX 360 just on the name SONY alone. The more time that goes by the more I am becoming doubtful. Everything I’ve developed or seen developed has yet to be “next gen”. The poly counts are not really any higher, im not seeing sub surface scattering, im not seeing much HDR lighting. (or they are faking it and not really doing it), I’m not seeing next gen fluid dynamics or object dynamics. I suspect that you’ll be able to have more dynamic objects in a scene than before. But im not seeing games doing this yet. We dont have a controller, there is no network code and there is no box. Its still the size of a normal PC.
This article originally ran in November - but Josh recently added more information:
“We are still getting the ps3 in a huge silver cpu case. No controller yet. absolutely NO netowork code has been written. In fact I’m pretty sure that the company i work for is gonna be the one responsible to port our network code for it.
Not sure how this thing is gonna make it out any time soon. It may be closer to 2007 or christmas of 06 before this thing sees the light of day. We’ll see.”
If you are wondering whether or not this is valid information - you are not alone. DNRS contacted the owner of the review site who confirmed that Josh is, in fact, who he says he is.
Personally, I was a little skeptical - but there is a profile of Josh Robertson on Sony Entertainment’s PlanetSide Station.com, which certainly raises some eyebrows.
Either way, you can bet Microsoft execs are grinning from ear to ear.
Source: DNRS
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