Comments on: Building A Better Xbox

By: FredFredrickson

FredFredrickson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:08:34 +0000

Well, you said the blog was biased, so I thought you were talking about me, since this is my blog.

But I beg to differ, the PS3 is not more powerful than the Xbox. Its video hardware is inferior, and it has less RAM. The CPU is in the PS3 is slightly better, and you are right – the way it is set up makes it hard to code for… that’s a bad thing.

Proprietary technology is not a good thing, because programmers don’t want to waste their time getting in-depth with a CPU that they’ll never be able to use the experience for elsewhere… This is why ports for PS3 usually aren’t very good – there’s no point in paying someone to spend a lot more time to do a job that SHOULD have been easy in the first place.

Look back into history at the 3DFX line of video cards, and you’ll see what I mean. They tried to make the industry move towards their type of GPU programming (Glide), had some success, but ultimately failed because the rest of the industry already used more universal formats, OpenGL and DirectX.

By: GREY.FOXX

GREY.FOXX — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:54:11 +0000

wasn’t talking to you fred but the ps3 is more powerful harder to code for yes but developers shouldn’t be lazy and i have a 360 but to say its doing well isn’t all the way correct it came out a year earlier and the other systems did better than xbox did in its first year also 2008 all there is to look for is gears of war 2 and i wasn’t pertaining to you just the guy up top who said ps3 only has 3-4 good games thats a lie but a whole new system when we only got gears and all that money spent come on 3 years thats B$ psn : MOE-GUNZ-JACKSON gamer tag : BADD N3WZ

By: FredFredrickson

FredFredrickson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:21:30 +0000

Er… where did I say the PS3 has no games?

The only superior hardware the PS3 has inside is the Blue-ray player. Its video card is inferior, it has less ram, and the CPU structure is so foreign to programmers, it’s hard for them to put practical knowledge into coding for it. That’s not bias, that’s fact. Look it up if you don’t believe me.

We’ll see how it all ends up, but right now I’m happy with the 360 – and that doesn’t (and shouldn’t) make me an anti-Sony zealot.

By: GREY.FOXX

GREY.FOXX — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:38:21 +0000

WOW this blog is bias we spent $300 plus the controllers, RROD,XBOX LIVE, and much more and all we get is 3 years and stop lieing ppl xbox only has gears and halo (sucks) ps3 has no games? uncharted heavenly sword GT motorstorm UT3 warhawk MGS4 resistance 1 & 2 killzone 2 LBP socom plus more M$ only have them 2 bioshock went multiplatform mass effect may go as well but except MGS4 all the best games have been multiplatform and don’t forget that 1 year headstart M$ got im no fanboy im just a realist and ps3 has a superior hardware and lineup M$ should create more games and new ideas 3 year lifespan sucks psn : MOE-GUNZ-JACKSON gamer tag : BADD N3WZ ( RROD at the moment )

By: FredFredrickson

FredFredrickson — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:36:57 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly, xygthop. I love the library of games that the 360 has to offer, and there are really only 1 or 2 games (excluding all the first party Nintendo games, since those will never go to other consoles, of course) which I wish would have come out for Xbox. It’s good stuff.

By: xygthop3

xygthop3 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:19:35 +0000

Ah yes the mighty 360, I’m not a ‘fanboy’ of any perticular gaming console but I belive that MS are on the right track with the xbox consoles. Sure they have made some bad choices like the HD-DVD drive and not having a HDD built into every system which causes game developers to program for the consoles without the HDD, which in turn somewhat lowers the game experiance for HDD owners, (poping models and textures in GTA4 anyone?).
But with a solid service like xbox live and a simple yet effective dashboard, this really makes the 360 something worth using every day.

The main reason I bought an orgianl xbox was because of the fact it was a PC in a box and could be easily modifiyed to suit my needs with HDD space and Homebrew software, which really make the xbox my console of choice. With the 360 lacking in the homebrew department and me with the need to modifiy things and sometimes destroy them I’m not as impressed with the 360.

One thing that the xbox/360 has going for it is the libary of games it has over any other next gen consoles. PS3 has only 4-5 games worth playing? but is great if you want an expensive blu-ray player. And the Wii is only good when you have friends over to play some party games or it works very well as a door stop.

360 should be everyones choice in a console if you actually want to play serious games and not watch movies or hit you mates in the face with your controller.

Great read Fred.