Mass Effect on PS3: "It has to" says analyst


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whats with all the complaining that it would take more work to go multi-platform? of F'n course, thats what i gotta say, what do people expect? no work between all consoles/pcs? come on. Yes, currently, it's "harder" to write for the ps3, but thats simply because its newer, seems to me developers haven't had much an incentive to do so, doesn't mean they can't and its not do-able, because it so is. Microsoft didn't write MS Office, then think that Office for Mac OsX should be cake. They have a whole dedicated team, to a platform that has a much much smaller percentage of the market share. I understand why developers would put ps3 development on the back burner, but it doesn't mean a great (yes, great) port isn't do-able.

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whats with all the complaining that it would take more work to go multi-platform? of F'n course, thats what i gotta say, what do people expect? no work between all consoles/pcs? come on. Yes, currently, it's "harder" to write for the ps3, but thats simply because its newer, seems to me developers haven't had much an incentive to do so, doesn't mean they can't and its not do-able, because it so is. Microsoft didn't write MS Office, then think that Office for Mac OsX should be cake. They have a whole dedicated team, to a platform that has a much much smaller percentage of the market share. I understand why developers would put ps3 development on the back burner, but it doesn't mean a great (yes, great) port isn't do-able.

The problem is at what cost? That's what the bottom line is. If a port means having a whole team basically rewrite the game from scratch it might not make financial sense. It would make more sense to port it over to the PC, which is probably what would happen. Less cost, larger installed user base, a quick return on the investement.

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Porting to the PC definitely makes sense. But even then it could be a bad port.

And would it really require an entire rewrite? I would understand that the chances of this go up the closer developers get to pushing a hardware's limits, which to me doesn't feel like its there yet, or close to being there. If in fact it reaches the point where it may not be good financial sense, then are we left with the chicken/egg scenario? Which i never really understood myself, how do developers decide to go after a user base that hasn't really expanded? or how does the console makers get the devs to back them up when they're only starting out.

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I think porting from 360 to PC is pretty straightforward. As for the rewrite, from what has been shown so far the ports from 360 to PS3 have suffered. The only games that have looked good are the ones written specifically for the PS3 so if it's a good port you want logic dictates it would take a start from scratch. Now, these are all my opinions and I'm no dev...

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As in content wise or technically?

On the technical side their engine already suffers badly from texture popping and load times. It will probably be the same on the PC if the game comes out - Which I think it will, KOTOR did.

I think texture popping is the least of our worries. While it does happen alot in ME, it only really is noticeable in sudden camera angle changing, since ME's engine wasn't designed for that kind of rapid angle change.

I am all for going multiplat, but I would wait until the game quality rises for non-exclusive PS3 titles.

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I call EA and BIOWARE and one of them said there have info about the merge in early jan 2008.To be honest at this point I dont care if its multiplatform as long as the xbox 360 get the special version of it because it techinally a exculsive but not anymore because of EA taking over bioware.I wouldnt mind if it went on the xbox 360 then came to ps3 after a year or two after being on xbox 360 for mass effect two and three.Like I siad we should hear info soon from one of these companys wont say whichone but again we find out in early jan according to one of the two companys I talk to about the merge and how it effect one another not the games but the merge of the two companys.On the game aspect the person I was talking to was hinting we may not know till E3 where mass effect two and three will end up.

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