Mark Rein: PS3 “in better place for launch” than 360

In an interview, Epic Games head Mark Rein stated that the Playstation 3 has a better spot for launch than the Xbox 360 had. Sony has taken efforts to get PS3 devkits out to developers as soon as possible, and you may remember from an earlier article that there are already 10,000 kits out there.

Developers were already working with final PS3 hardware around E3, whereas Microsoft did not ship development kits until very late before the launch of the Xbox 360. So at the end, Sony’s delays have been good for something.

Furthermore, as he’s the head of a company with a leading position in online gaming, he sees the introduction of Live Anywhere as a little worrisome because Microsoft is interfering with the customer relationships of other companies, which usually have their own online servers and technologies and are now supposed to comply with Microsoft’s “closed system“. As a gamer, however, Rein thinks it’s a very cool idea which will eventually lead to a “renaissance of PC gaming“.

Rein also talks about optimising Gears Of War, stating that at E3 the game only ran on a single thread. With the new Gemini multi-threaded renderer technology Epic is implementing, framerates will improve, making the game more fluid – something UT 2007, in development for PS3, could also benefit from.

Via Eurogamer

In an interview, Epic Games head Mark Rein stated that the Playstation 3 has a better spot for launch than the Xbox 360 had. Sony has taken efforts to get PS3 devkits out to developers as soon as possible, and you may remember from an earlier article that there are already 10,000 kits out there.

Developers were already working with final PS3 hardware around E3, whereas Microsoft did not ship development kits until very late before the launch of the Xbox 360. So at the end, Sony’s delays have been good for something.

Furthermore, as he’s the head of a company with a leading position in online gaming, he sees the introduction of Live Anywhere as a little worrisome because Microsoft is interfering with the customer relationships of other companies, which usually have their own online servers and technologies and are now supposed to comply with Microsoft’s “closed system“. As a gamer, however, Rein thinks it’s a very cool idea which will eventually lead to a “renaissance of PC gaming“.

Rein also talks about optimising Gears Of War, stating that at E3 the game only ran on a single thread. With the new Gemini multi-threaded renderer technology Epic is implementing, framerates will improve, making the game more fluid – something UT 2007, in development for PS3, could also benefit from.

Via Eurogamer