Matt i am sorry but ure a dick, u said the GPU is more powerful in the xbox 360 which is something that was pulled out of ure ass right? The memory iss the same only that it is harder to develop for because it is split in some awkward way. This does not mean ps3 is better only means that matt pulled crap from his ass (prolly reading IGN which never get anything right ).
500,000 games sold to make a profit is a guestimate for the first games, once devs know
what they are doing it costs a lot less. The PS2 had the hardest coding needed known to man but after a few months they got the hang of it.

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The beta 360 and PS3 units are only 3 months apart. Remember the PS3 was supposed to launch in April and Sony tried to make the 2005 X-mas window.
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Come on, learn something, devs got a dev machine which is a computer which emulates the general idea of how the ps3 works, as later shown everything was pre rendered as they had no working model at this time. The debug unit was created around 5 months before, and this was only given to the larger companies like Bandai Namco and EA.

And for people saying Gears of War is worse than Motorstorm, this is also a pile of bullshit, go look at Gears of War in real life on a hd dvd and u will know what i mean. The first game i expect for the ps3 to be better than GoW will come in a year.

Developers ported existeing games for PS2 and Xbox to 360 to take advantage of the launch period where there isn’t a lot of games, hence big sales for old gen games.

The beta 360 and PS3 units are only 3 months apart. Remember the PS3 was supposed to launch in April and Sony tried to make the 2005 X-mas window.

One HUGE reason I am holding back from a PS3 purchase is many engineers are coming out (now that the PS3 can be tested) and saying that the 360 is a much more powerful GAMING machine. Their is almost no doubt in the industry that the 360 has the best GPU. If you don’t know the GPU is what puts graphics on your screen. The 360 also has more memory. The problem with the Cell is that it is almost impossible to finalize a game for. Seperating the game code into the SPUs is such a hard task that no developer will get the grasp of it without Sony releasing software to assist them. Even then that is a stretch.

Gears of War is the most beautiful game on any system right now. Yes that includes PC. To downplay Gears of War is an insult to any developer. Everyone can see how great the game is on so many levels and if you can’t you are blinded by Fanboyish dreams.

If many estimates about development costs are correct the PS3 is in a heap of trouble. 8.5 million dollars for a crappy launch game like Blade Storm (I am pretty sure) for such a poor scoring game are sad. If this keeps up the PS3 will lose even more exclusives like Metal Gear Soild, Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry and many other 3rd party developers who will go to the greener pastures. 500,000 games sold to make a profit would bankrupt so many developers.

In my honest and informed opinion the PS3 is an over reaching and under planned system. Sony is going to have to work their addes off to make the PS3 a hit and I really doubt they will do that. They think they are walking into “their” market and that is not how it works. Price will affect consumer spending and games will affect consumer spending. Both of these are strongly in the 360 camp.

Stop sucking each other off and look outside of Sonys world. Most of you are missing out out great gaming because you won’t buy a 360 or Wii. I own both and couldn’t be happier with my purchases. 360 right now has the better ports and Wii is so very different.

As I have said so many times on this forum. The PS3 needs to sell me. I am not sold because of my PS1/2 ownership.