360-PS3 Ridge Racer Differences

Enough with the excuse about developers having final PS3 hardware for too short a time to get used to programming SPE's.

Developers have had Cell based kits for almost 2 years now. Even though those processors ran at a slower 2.7 ghz, an SPE is an SPE. These kits also have 2 6800 video cards in SLI, and represented 70% of PS3's final specs. The kits were just a less powerful version of final hardware, and don't have any huge programming differences. Anything that ran on an early PS3 dev kit would simply run and look better on final hardware.

Xbox 360 developers worked with 2 single thread G5's and and a non-unified ATI graphics card until late August, 2005. These kits represented 30% of the finale hardwares power, and had some big programming differences.

Going from 2 cores and 2 threads to 3 cores and 6 threads is a much bigger task than going from 7 SPE's at 2.7ghz to 7 SPE's at 3.2ghz. One the GPU side, going from 2 cards in SLI to one chip probably took no work at all. Going from non-unified shaders and no eDRAM to a system that supports those features probably takes a bit more of a learning curve.

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I think that most of these differences can be explained by picture brightness, which is easily adjustable. The missing cruise ship in the PS3 version is replaced with a sailboat, which is what the bridge in now open for.

The textures in the PS3 version are horrible, with the water looking like NES Zelda renders.

by ronhoward

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I have re-read the Kotaku article. I didn't find it to be racist in the least. I know what veiled racism looks like... it's my minor right now in college, and I've taken several courses about racism in general. I had a professor who spoke at length about phantom racism, the idea that people are inherently racist even when they train themselves 'not' to be. I don't see any of those signs there. I'm not saying this is hard-hitting, full of truthiness journalism. It's a first-hand account of what happened, the viewpoint of one person. Nowhere do I see an attempt to call the article journalism in that form. Some blog on the internet isn't (and shouldn't) up to the standards of the BBC, USA Today et al. The BBC could use a lesson in some investigative journalism at times, but I don't think attacking Mr. Ashcraft or Kotaku as a whole is the right way to do it.

by Big John

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I REALLY think people are overestimating how much they can resell a PS3 for on eBay. I see interviews were people expect to make up to a $2,000 profit! With soooo many that are going to end up on eBay, and a decent chance that stores might get more stock in within a week after launch, I doubt most PS3s will sell for more than $1,000 (total). So those camping out, doing the math that they are going to make enough money to justify the hours spent there....they are probably gonna get shafted. The hours spent will probably yeild less profit than a minimum wage job.

by AlteredBeast

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What these kids don't realize is that if life was a video game, nobody would play it. Seriously, you can't skip the scenes you've seen a thousand times already, if you die once you can't play anymore, and there isn't even a way to get %100 completion.

by SolCutter

Nine Months Pregnant, In Line For PlayStation

I have this fear the child will be named SIXAXIS.

by Imaria

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