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 Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 13:20 Post subject: [PS3] Naughty Dog: PS3 Running at Only 30-40% |
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The PlayStation 3 has churned out some great-looking games, but Naughty Dog co-lead designer Richard Lemarchand says Sony's Edge toolset will unlock the true potential of the Cell processor.
"There’s a set of tools called Edge that were developed on the Naughty Dog premises, actually, by a group of very, very senior games programmer, some from Naughty Dog and some from elsewhere," Lemarchand told ThreeSpeech.
"...That’s why we think we’re probably only using 30 or 40 percent of the power of the PS3 right now, and there’s this great, untapped potential."
Lemarchand called the tools "low-level libraries" and said they are available for free to third-party developers. Naughty Dog is the developer of the sharp-looking Uncharted: Drake's fortune, and is a Sony first-party studio.
Sony Computer Entertainment announced the Edge toolset in early 2007, which was developed in a partnership between WWS Europe Advanced Technology Group, WWS America ICE team and WWS America Tools and Technology group.
"Rather than overarching engine, these teams have chosen to create specialized systems that demonstrate best practices of SPU and RSX utilization," Sony said at the time.
The Cell is made up of a PowerPC core, supplemented by eight SPEs (Synergistic Processing Units).
This architecture has been described by developers as "exotic," and more difficult to develop for than more traditional hardware.
But Edge tools could make the development process considerably easier for developers, according to Lemarchand. "[Third-party developers] are going to be able to use them in their own ways, to get more and more and more out of the PS3 over the years."
http://www.edge-online.com/news/naughty-dog-ps3-running-only-30-40
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 14:11 Post subject: |
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I don't know about that 30%, but I do believe that the PS3 has much more potential than what we have seen. You just need to compare the first PS2 games to what the latest look like, i.e. God of War 3 or FF12, those look nearly like PS3 games on a lower resolution.
There is much more to come. The only problem is if developers will use that power or will just make more 360 comversions...
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 16:59 Post subject: |
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i will say only this that the PS3 like it was said in the article doesn't have its own game engine , xbox 360 has Unreal 3 and now 3,5+ engine , the PS3 has none specific made for this console engine ... forcing others to re-write the unreal 3 game based engine onto PS3 with sometimes terrible consequences
Now "Naughty Dog" fights "Id" for the creation of the PS3 based engine so that in the future those company's could life from the revenue this engine makes - but who will win ID's "Rage" or Doggys "new games" we will see , like they say the most famous game wins the engine battle
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Bigperm
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 17:50 Post subject: |
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Blah, blah, blah.
Will this shit ever stop.
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 18:12 Post subject: |
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lol same old shit "ps3 its so much powerfull,you will see en maybe 5 o 10 years..."
I buy a console to play now not in 5 years...
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 08:27 Post subject: |
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plenty on games on the PS3
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 09:01 Post subject: |
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Too bad they can't use the other 60-70% because the Cell is not a viable processor for routine tasks.
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SuTuRa
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 14:01 Post subject: |
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Naughty Dog is a first-party sony developer, why would they say something different??
What I believe is what is out and ready to play.
And if the problem is indeed the lack of an engine that makes use of all the technology in the cell processor,
sony should have done their homework and made it available for the developers long time ago.
This just shows another bad bet from sony...
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 16:14 Post subject: |
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I never understood this shit than why don't Naughty Dogs make a game that utilizes 90% of the ps3 and looks 25x better than any xbox360 game. Oh I know why, because they are full of shit.
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Ispep
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 16:56 Post subject: |
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Give them a chance, their first PS3 title was pretty awesome on many different levels - especially graphically. No visible loading, highly cinematic characters and great gameplay to boot. Regarding the percentages I don't think anyone should take it at face value, clearly, but it's a given that as a platform matures - and developers with it - that the titles eke more and more out of the potential of said platform. I don't see any controversy there.
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