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More On PS3 and Xbox 2

Posted by michael on from the controllers-now-twice-the-size dept.

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."

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  1. Its simple by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nintendo is not an American company. It is not traded on the American exchanges like Sony and Microsoft are. Press about Nintendo is not as useful to the people who actually get "gaming" news from the MSM, except to give perspective compared to Sony and Microsoft, and yes in the American market it is relatively doom and gloom for Nintendo. This is all logical and matter-of-course.

    And for a little perspective on rushing things... The GBA and Xbox both came out in 2001. The NDS is already out. Nintendo is the one complaining about the pace of the console cycle. This does not make sense. I'm just saying.

  2. Re:i remember... by c0rN_g0aT · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually Nintendo released that the GC could do 6 to 12 million polygons per second when it was actually capable of 20+. They gave the real world specs for the GC.
    Sony and M$ are the liars.

    http://www.segatech.com/gamecube/overview/

  3. Re:Watch Nintendo, not Apple by Kenshin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Halo was orignally a Mac game, meant to showcase OSX, before Microsoft bought Bungie.

    --

    Does it make you happy you're so strange?

  4. Re:iGame by michaeldot · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.

    I rarely do this on Slashdot, but I'm calling pure BULLSHIT on this one.

    The interactive documentation built into Xcode is a pure delight. Double-click on a Cocoa/Carbon/QuickTime/Java method or function call and you get an instant lookup to extremely comprehensive documentation.

    Every method in the class, full description of all params, cross-referencing to related methods, historical notes on version compatibility.

    As to its highly organized and fully up to date web site documentation: Apple *uses* Google for its web site searches. It is fast and efficient.

    Google does index Apple dev. I've many times found links to just the right posting in an Apple hosted Cocoa/Carbon/OpenGL mailing list or other article simply by entering the function name in the Google search box.

    In short, you simply don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you're just innocently ignorant, but I really don't know what people like you gain from contributing such misinformation. You've made at least one Mac OS X developer mighty annoyed at the fiction you're trying to spread.

    The fact that you've been moderated +5 Interesting shows that the people who have mod points today are as clueless as you. Don't think I'll bother to read any more of /. today.