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Mikael · 01-24-2007, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Osnabrueck

I don't think that's a given by any means.

The formula by which consoles do battle has changed from what we dealt with in the past. Graphic performance is definitely why the SNES eventually surpassed the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, good 3D titles is what gave the PlayStation the jump on the Sega Saturn and a lack of horsepower is why the Sega Dreamcast eventually captulated in the face of the XBox and PS2.

But now we've hit the wall of deminishing returns on what our consoles can do, and what kind of response it gets out of us. No doubt, the PS3 has the potential to deliver astonighing graphics - but maybe astonishing graphics are becoming passé. Sure, I can see chunks of brain flying out of a zombies skull when I blast it with my assult rifle, but the overall effect isn't terribly different from same zombie game ported onto the 360 or Wii.

I could be wrong, but this time around massive processing horsepower could be the least important component in the gaming equation. The PS3 will up the ante with more sophisticated environments, but then again, so will programmers finesse better performance out of the 360 and Wii.

It's going to be very even with 360 vs. PS3 for the first year at least. But I believe that later on when the developers can get the most out of the PS3 there will be a more visible difference. This is what they say on cnn.com:

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The key thing to know about the Cell is that it has the juice to run a new class of gameplay physics that will allow developers to create spectacular effects and eventually provide a whole new depth of realism to games. Paired with PlayStation 3's RSX Reality Synthesizer graphics-processing unit, a gargantuan 550MHz, 300-million-transistor graphics chip based on Nvidia's GeForce 7800 GTX graphics technology, and you're looking at a very high-end PC. The only problem, of course, is that it'll take developers years to learn to take full advantage of all that processing power and truly deliver on the graphical promise of the system. The same, of course, is true for the Xbox 360, but we suspect from our talks with developers that the PS3 may ultimately be declared the more powerful system. (Say what you will about increasing development times and rising costs for producing video games, but Blu-ray's 25GB to 50GB storage capacity--as opposed to 8.5GB for the Xbox 360's DVD drive--does give developers the chance to create huge games).