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More On PS3 and Xbox 2
News for nerds writes "The BBC has news about the next-generation game consoles, with comments from various third parties. According to Rory Armes, studio general manager of EA in Europe, they have already received the development kits from Microsoft, but not yet from Sony and Nintendo. He assumes Sony's PlayStation 3 will have a little more under the hood and be more cost-efficient than Microsoft's Xbox 2. Gerhard Florin, head of EA in Europe, remarks 'PS3 will provide graphics indistinguishable from movies.' Spider-Man 2 or Toy Story 2, that's the problem."
...anyone else read that article like a Sony love-fest?... Just wondering...
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They'll do the same thing they always do - half the product at twice the price. Something with the functionality of the PSX, with a pricetag of around $400. Oh, but it will come in a WHITE CASE! Now that would be worth paying extra for.
If Apple came out with an iGame or something else as "cutesy" named, there would be a line 2 miles long at every Apple store around the world. Why? Because there are too many people out there that will buy anything with an Apple logo on it even though it's overpriced and doesn't work quite as well as similarly priced equipment. But it's white and chrome! MUST HAVE IT!
Uhm .. Gaming on a Mac? What's that?
Development on OS X is great.
If you say so. Development on OSX is frustrating because of one thing. There is virtually zero documentation.
APIs are half-published. Example code is poorly written. And Apple prevents google from indexing their developer site so finding the little information that *is* published is a pain in the ass.
Developers coming from MS (with their tons and tons of documentation on MSDN) are going to be pounding their heads against the wall and finally giving up.
Uhhh... what about the iAnus port on the back? It smells bad but is always wet and tight.