Post by: Kairon on November 01, 2005, 03:05:22 PM
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I'm thinking this means that PS3 development is somewhere along the way... just not with real "final" dev kits till now. Although they say that the X360's dev tools were released last summer (Summer 2004) I'm betting that they mean preliminary tools, as I recall the final 360 dev kits being out more around this springtime (Spring 2005? Can anyone confirm or refute?).
Particularly of interest is Enterbrain's President (Enterbrain appears to be a mainly Japanese smaller RPG developer) statement that "We are unlikely to see games exhibiting a level only PS3 can achieve until the end of 2007." But then again, maybe the more established companies have a better grip on the hardware than he does.
Comparatively, we can still speculate as to the state of dev kits for the Revolution. Merrick recently claimed that third parties had development hardware, but at what stage? Link! The Rev dev kit materials are surely beyond the "Use a GC dev kit stage" and third parties almost certainly now have the controllers in their hands (Especially with so many of them speaking out about it from Japan). But the dev tools they have may or may not be final yet.
Still, if the PS3 dev kits are finalized (though they may not be) and Rev dev kits are not yet finalized, the Rev could still conceivably have games before the PS3 does because of Nintendo's own in-house development teams being privy to this information long ago, as well as the fact that developing on the PS3's completely from scratch Cell Processor with 9 cores may take devs longer to figure out rather than the much more dev and small game friendly Revolution hardware.
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Post by: Djunknown on November 01, 2005, 04:54:53 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on November 01, 2005, 08:01:26 PM
Enterbrain is famous for their ____ Maker toolsets. RPG Maker, Fighter Maker, Shmup Maker, etc. I wish they'd make international versions of those.
The Cell isn't a completely new architecture, it's a modified PowerPC. Sure, you won't be able to harness its power completely with just PPC tools but it'll be enough for a game.
Post by: Bill Aurion on November 01, 2005, 08:02:55 PM
Post by: Galford on November 01, 2005, 08:40:50 PM
Everytime Ken K opens his mouth he sounds like he's on crack.
PS - Bill, where do you get your avatars?
Post by: nitsu niflheim on November 02, 2005, 05:14:28 AM
Post by: Arbok on November 02, 2005, 05:32:15 AM
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Originally posted by: Galford
PS - Bill, where do you get your avatars?
That question gets asked so often that it probably should be simply added to the forum's rules to avoid further confusion at this point...
Post by: couchmonkey on November 02, 2005, 05:34:17 AM
Post by: BigJim on November 02, 2005, 06:42:23 AM
My EALA friend wondered if Spring was legit. Hearing this even now really makes you wonder.
Post by: KDR_11k on November 02, 2005, 09:05:58 AM
Post by: BigJim on November 02, 2005, 11:35:47 AM
It got to the point where, I guess as a "favor", EA brought in people to do their laundry for them since they didn't even have time to do basic things like that at home anymore. They'd also pay for catering, which is fine but living on pizza and the other assorted crap food they offered isn't great either.
Nowadays he's enjoying himself, working on an original 360 game.
Post by: Bill Aurion on November 02, 2005, 01:14:47 PM
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Originally posted by: Galford
PS - Bill, where do you get your avatars?
I basically take art that I like and crop it down to avatar size...Places like 4chan, 6chan, and Hongfire, which do also have hentai, so I guess kirby killer is half-right...But my current pic came out of the "Cute/Anime" section, I promise...
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Originally posted by: Arbok
That question gets asked so often that it probably should be simply added to the forum's rules to avoid further confusion at this point...
Ahahaha...
Post by: KDR_11k on November 03, 2005, 04:08:02 AM
That's par during crunchtime, an employer that won't even buy you pizza and caffeine would be lower than dirt even by game industry standards.
Post by: Galford on November 03, 2005, 04:49:07 PM
Now I know why.
Oh, yah, down with EA.
