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Highlights from GDCE
Gamasutra has been reporting all week from the Game Developer's Conference Europe, and they've got plenty of interesting wrap-up materials to peruse. Developing for the PS3 covers some of the expectations developers should have when dealing with the cell processor, the PSP 2005 Overview takes a look back at the performance of Sony's handheld, and The Game Design Mashup: What do Grannies Play? takes a lighter look at the development process. From the mashup article: "The theme for the Game Design Mash-up was particularly apt in a development age highly concerned with diversity - devise a game for Granny. Robin laid down the rules of engagement and asked some important first questions: the audience is mainstream, casual, female and gray. How do we reach them? Who is your Grandma? What would she play?"
Now this is truly news for nerds.
The developer's comments on the PSP hardware were great. Not much has been reported (at least from what I've seen) about the actual power of the hardware and the differences between a PSP and a PS2. Interesting how the CPU is roughly 1/3 of the power of a PS2 along with the memory bus being about half as fast. While the DS is nowhere near as powerful, it is interesting to see that the PSP is not quite the PS2 in your hands that sony wants you to believe. An interesting read for sure.
Note to Zonk: Keep more news like this coming. It is a whole lot more interesting than the typical PSP vs. DS vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3 crap we've been hearing about for months, and quit linking to 1up every single day for chrissakes! If someone wants to read 1up they can easily browse over to their site.
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