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Oblivion Confirmed for PS3 Launch
1up reports that Elder Scroll IV: Oblivion will be a PlayStation 3 launch title. From the article: "Yes, the rumors are true: Oblivion is heading to PlayStation 3, and an upcoming cover story in Official PlayStation Magazine has the exclusive first look. Here's what we know so far. The game will introduce a new faction to the Oblivion world, one that's available right at the beginning called Knights of the Nine and described by the developers as 'the good Dark Brotherhood.' The goal here is to become the Divine Crusader (think part warrior, part priest), and the quest features new locations, characters, armor and weapons."
It would be interesting to see how well Oblivion runs on a PS3 in comparison to a PC or Xbox 360. Is the PS3 really that much better than an Xbox 360? This would show. On some settings Oblivion can humble a Quad SLI setup (usually max settings outdoors), so it won't be a case of the PS3 maxing out Oblivion. I wonder whether it will come on a Blu Ray disc or a DVD because it clearly doesn't need the Blu Ray's capacity. That Blu Ray drive sure is worth the extra cost. Maybe a lot of pre-rendered video will be thrown on for fun.
This is only for people who are completely devoted to the Playstation brand. Anyone else who wanted it, already owns it.
I'm getting sick of reading "the PS3 is harder to program for" from people who've never written code on it.
You do realize the PS3 dev kids come with a huge number of SDKs including massive middleware options for physics, 3D rendering, audio, etc. and a great toolchain? It may not be as idiot-friendly as MS's tools (something Microsoft has always been good at -- their tools that is), but its very thorough. Its not like Bethseda had to sit down and write Cell assembly all day every day. The Unreal engine is available for use (although I doubt they used that), the same tree engine they use on the XBox360 is available, movie codecs are already written, etc.
Sure, optimizing for the low levels of a PS3 engine would be more challenging perhaps than the simpler XBox360 core, most of this can be written in high level languages and compiled easily (with GCC no less) to work quite well out of the box. Go read some real developper information on what Sony provides with a dev kit. The major complaint was that the dev kits weren't as plentiful as hoped -- which indicates that quite a few companies wanted them.
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Why? Even PS3 and Sony haters should want the system to be moderately successful - because otherwise there is no competition. And as the FUD about the PS3 (way too much of it generated by the talking heads at Sony making off-the-cuff remarks and guesses) begins to clear up and actual information begins to solidify, it looks like the system will actually be viable.
Yeah - I was wondering how long it would take for a comment to manage to turn what is essentially good news for the PS3 into a negative. And the very first comment does.
At least this time it was a joke.
The game's section motto should be "Trolling Nerds. Sony Sucks! Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Disliking Sony and the PS3 is fine. Everyone is allowed to have an opinion.
Making things up about the PS3, casting everything about it in a negative light, and generally flaming anyone who's interested in anything PS3 related is not OK.
The worst so far has to be this comment, responding to the annoucement that Sony will be selling games at $60 and not the $100 previously (erroneously) reported. His response? "But they'll charge $40 for the content!"
This comment is only slightly better (again, first comment in a thread about Sony). Sony explains why they believe the PS3 need extra storage. First response: "bah, I don't want FMV!" Never mind the fact that never was it said that additional storage was needed for FMV.
Seriously, I'm hardly a Sony fan, but I'm sick and tired of the trolling. Dislike Sony all you like, but stop making things up about them.