Former Harmonix dev gives his opinion about the PS3

For PS3 fans and game console news followers, developers ranting about the PS3 is already old news, and Jack Tretton also had to comment about the trend in an interview with N’Gai Croal. This time Jason Booth, a former game developer from Harmonix, posted a rather lengthy (and heated) blog post about what he believes are the top misconceptions about the PS3.

He starts off with the allegedly false belief that “The PS3 is more graphically advanced than the 360.” Booth then explains that the fill rate of the PS3 is slower compared to the Xbox 360’s, and had to use lower resolutions to achieve the same effect as Microsoft‘s Xbox 360 console.

Booth also mentioned about the downsides of the Cell processor as well as Blu-ray. He mentioned that even if the Cell is powerful in theory, it’s overall performance does not work out that way in reality. As for the Blu-ray, he explained that retrieving data from Blu-ray is considerably slower than DVD, despite the larger capacity.

Certainly an interesting game developer’s point of view about the PS3, which inevitably adds fodder to the console wars. Of course, it’s better to read his thoughts with an open mind rather to use it as weapon against other console supporters.

Read Jason Booth’s blog post in the Read link!

For PS3 fans and game console news followers, developers ranting about the PS3 is already old news, and Jack Tretton also had to comment about the trend in an interview with N’Gai Croal. This time Jason Booth, a former game developer from Harmonix, posted a rather lengthy (and heated) blog post about what he believes are the top misconceptions about the PS3.

He starts off with the allegedly false belief that “The PS3 is more graphically advanced than the 360.” Booth then explains that the fill rate of the PS3 is slower compared to the Xbox 360’s, and had to use lower resolutions to achieve the same effect as Microsoft‘s Xbox 360 console.

Booth also mentioned about the downsides of the Cell processor as well as Blu-ray. He mentioned that even if the Cell is powerful in theory, it’s overall performance does not work out that way in reality. As for the Blu-ray, he explained that retrieving data from Blu-ray is considerably slower than DVD, despite the larger capacity.

Certainly an interesting game developer’s point of view about the PS3, which inevitably adds fodder to the console wars. Of course, it’s better to read his thoughts with an open mind rather to use it as weapon against other console supporters.

Read Jason Booth’s blog post in the Read link!