Maybe you're supposed to make entire levels fit in RAM? Perfect, except now you're limitting yourself to a few dozen megabytes per level
Quite true. You'd be amazed at how far a dozen megabytes can go. And not necessarily the whole level, but just next few chunks that the player can go.
The real issue is that this isn't something being sprung on developers at the last moment, it's something they all read in the specs and have planned for from the beginning.
It's not really even more complex. You just can't have the unlimited availability of movement like in GTA. And it'll obviously be no problem for something like GT4.
Does anyone realize there is absolutely nothing new here of any substance? Some nitwit at TGS reporting that demo builds (read: months old) aren't done, and that some other launch titles aren't showing?!
FUD about battery life "problems". Sony has said from day 1 that developers shouldn't stream content. This should be obvious to everybody!
The real issue here is that Sony just isn't saying anything. See, the media gets nervous when there is no news... since that's their job. So they have to make up the news. Except that Sony has done an excellent job about keeping their secrets, so this is what we get. Rumors and hunches.
Trust me, you'll know more when Sony marketing deems it exactly the right moment.
I worked with one of the guys that did Halo, and he said that most of the guys that did the original had left. I guess when MS bought them, a lot of the people were under contract to stick around for x years/months, and many left when that was up.
Now, I'm sure Halo 2 will be an amazing game. But to imply that it's been done by mostly the same people as Halo is simply false.
You know, maybe the/. editor was just trying not to link directly to the school's project page from the article summary and slashdot it to hell. Anyway, who cares? You can easily tell from the summary whether it's worth a click, and if you're bitching about the 20 seconds it took to read the summary...
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Quite true. You'd be amazed at how far a dozen megabytes can go. And not necessarily the whole level, but just next few chunks that the player can go.
The real issue is that this isn't something being sprung on developers at the last moment, it's something they all read in the specs and have planned for from the beginning.
It's not really even more complex. You just can't have the unlimited availability of movement like in GTA. And it'll obviously be no problem for something like GT4.
FUD about battery life "problems". Sony has said from day 1 that developers shouldn't stream content. This should be obvious to everybody!
The real issue here is that Sony just isn't saying anything. See, the media gets nervous when there is no news... since that's their job. So they have to make up the news. Except that Sony has done an excellent job about keeping their secrets, so this is what we get. Rumors and hunches.
Trust me, you'll know more when Sony marketing deems it exactly the right moment.
Now, I'm sure Halo 2 will be an amazing game. But to imply that it's been done by mostly the same people as Halo is simply false.
Well you must be really mad you read this!
Wow!