Last gen PS2 was the leading platform and graphical updates were given to the Xbox 1 version of games.

If the PS3 is the leading platform given the tools for this gen games should look identical or whichever way developers want to do things.

The thing is I was very hyped by the ATi XENOS in the Xbox 360 but I all I have seen are frame rate issues, screen tearing in early games, lots of jaggies, the boasting for the XENOS was leaded by its abilities on paper yet am not seeing this ability in games as comparing the PS3's games like say GTA 4 is about on par with the 360 version there is no great huge difference at all.

So we could put fanboism aside for once and just say its all equal in respective of what developers can do with this gens hardware.

It doesnt matter which console is the leading console because if games are still taking a bit longer to come out on the PS3 there will be a delay either way and I am not saying that in a bad way.

However saying this Valve are not so keen on developing for the PS3 at all from what I read the other day on N4G...Personally I think its stupid for any developer to turn around and not make for a particular platform considering both machines are more than capable.

It's not about what developers can do, it's what they think is worth it. They're going to look the same because it's easier, or because developers are used to developing for one system, so the same technology/concepts will be used on other systems.

If the weaker system is more popular, it will hold the rest back.

I dont think weaker system applies in this case though, both machines are more than capable as we have seen well graphically thus far.

Doesn't always work that way, if the 360 isn't capable of some of the things the devs have put into the PS3 version of the game, the 360 version will look "worse" or at best "different" if other effects are put in to compensate. Same goes for the other way around of course.

The "easier to dev for PS3 first" approach is one I've mostly seen with regard to the engine programming, not just the graphics. It's more to do with the CPU and memory usage from what I understand.


Who are you and what have you done with SS4? :-)


Valve are, at heart, a PC house. They will be much more familiar and happy with the dev environment for the 360 since it's almost exactly the same as for the PC. From comments I've seen online and in, for example, develop magazine, developers are split pretty even over which console they prefer to code on.


Agreed. There is no reason to make anything exclusive other than financial incentives, laziness or being owned by either Microsoft or Sony.