I'll just dig this up, and vote for the Xbox 360...
Actually considered getting the PS3 too, until I got a look into development on both of them (as one of those side projects that steal time from this place
).
The PS3. Is. A. Nightmare.
It has a
lot of potential, but I'm fearing more and more that this potential will
never be fulfilled. The development ought to be easy enough, considering most of the development kit is non-proprietary and open source, and a programmer will know a lot of the technology beforehand.
I certainly prefer Sony's choice of development model in this way. But debugging (i.e. "fixing problems") is an insanely complex task on a piece of hardware like this.
"Ideally", 50% of the time spent on a project for the PS3 would be spent on trying to make the final game actually work. That's "ideally" as in, "if we don't want problems with the game, or inferior quality", not "ideally" as in, "that's how it should be".
Of course, actually getting the full development kit for creating a game still costs quite a bit - sadly, Sony had to drop the price of that 50% recently, because not enough companies are buying it. In other words, too few companies are actually developing anything for the PS3 at the moment. It's simply too much of a risk, since the complexity means more bugs when the title is released -
if it's ever released, that is.
Again, this is
not the developer support department at SCEA's fault - they're doing everything they can to cater to the developer. The PS3 is just a piece of problematic hardware. Obviously in terms of "more advanced" but also in terms of "dubious design". They can't help that.
At the moment, the superior graphics and features compared to the Xbox 360 have been largely theoretical. In quite a few games, the PS3 version has been inferior to the X360 version. Not due to the X360 having more power, but simply due to it taking way too much time to wrench the power out of the PS3.
As for the problems with the Xbox 360 for end users, they certainly exist. I've never encountered them (had about 5 freezes in 2 years, nothing else). But problems are far from rare - but then, it's not hard to get that fixed. The X360 is certainly not the most advanced of the two, but as it looks right now, I'd be careful with buying the PS3
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This post has been edited by Kaneda: Nov 25 2007, 02:09 AM
