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Factor 5 To Be PS3 Exclusive

Posted by Zonk on from the no-more-rogue-leader dept.

1up.com is reporting that Rogue Leader and Rogue Squadron developer Factor 5 has signed an exclusivity deal with Sony and the PlayStation 3 console. From the article: "Factor 5 has already played with Microsoft's Xbox 360, but said the PlayStation 3's 3.2GHz Cell chip offered more processing power over the other hardware options. The added power, allowing for a more realistic gaming experience, fueled the company's decision. Factor 5 made no comment on Nintendo's Revolution in the story."

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  1. Not surprising. by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Factor 5 has historically gravitated towards the console with the highest specs. They are a very technologically oriented company, and their previous choices of platform has always been the one with the best technology. SNES, N64, and GCN.

    SNES because it had great music capability, and high colour depth. It was a little slower than the Genesis, but more capable in other ways. It resulted in a better LOOKING picture than the Genesis.

    N64 because it was quite obviously more powerful than the PSX in every way. End of story.

    GCN because it's the most technologically powerful console of this generation. (Xbox fans, if you want to dispute this, please provide evidence beyond clock speeds (and an explanation of unified memory, and why it doesn't hinder Xbox's performance). And perhaps an actual Xbox game that provides better graphics (polys, effects, AI) than Rogue Squadron III).

    1. Re:Not surprising. by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "SNES because it had great music capability, and high colour depth. It was a little slower than the Genesis, but more capable in other ways. It resulted in a better LOOKING picture than the Genesis."

      It's sort of like comparing a 300 mhz PC with a 3DFX card to a 600mhz PC running games only in software mode.

      "Xbox fans, if you want to dispute this, please provide evidence beyond clock speeds"

      I'm a Nintendo zealot. To me, Nintendo can do no wrong. However, the graphics on the XBOX are often better than they are on the GameCube. The XBOX tends to do more shadow work than the GameCube.

      This isn't to say that the GameCube couldn't pull the same effects off, but the fact that game developers aren't taking advantage of it makes the spec discussion pretty academic.

      In defense of the GameCube, it also came out $100 cheaper than the XBOX did without being sold at a loss. Go Nintendo.

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      "Derp de derp."
  2. Re:Just The First Of Many Developers Dumping The 3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Cell is harder to develop"

    Bzzztt!

    The 360 is turning out to be a nightmare to code for. Being stuck with DirectX and a multi-threaded environment is a fucking disaster. I don't even want to think what it's going to be like when, maybe even if, the real 360 dev hardware arrives. Hand tuning code for three in order cores. Yeeech!

    Cell is j u s t f u c k i n g a m a z i n g. I doubt Factor 5 will be the only console developer to come right out and say they are not even going to bother with the 360 difficult to program, weak, and tiny installed base compared to the PS3 which is a fucking dream come true for any graphics coder combined with the enormous installed base that will be out there over the next five years.

    It is funny as hell watching the entire Dreamcast/Xbox/x86 fanboy community collectively wet their pants over the PS3. It can't really be that good...

    Oh god, it is...