Power of Cell Processor 'Limitless,' says 'Lair' Dev

[Kbu Chan]

EA agrees with Factor 5, saying currently the PS3 is running at about 2 out of 10.

[Advocate]

well that UT3 shot looks pretty damn cool.

edit after reading the entire article: Wouldn't be surprised if Epic pulled UT3 from PS3 after those comments. And I know he said UT3 will be released on PS3. I'm saying after he got off the phone and talked to Cliff B and shareholders. They make the decision to pull it.

[Advocate]

Everyone that was in this thread should look at the new one where Epic's Mark Rein responds.

[AaronChance]

I can only assume Gears was the only Unreal game this guy has ever seen. The very first Unreal had pretty large outdoor environments with a pretty impressive level of detail for the time. However, the scale doesn't change in the way Lair does, so it's really not very comparible.

[gamevet]

He continued, "The PS3 is all about streamlining about the two different memory pools. They are separate. You don't have to do tiling because you don't have an embedded frame buffer. All of these advantages of the PS3 turn into disadvantages if you don't start making your game on the PS3. Hence the griping. If you create first on the PS3, it is pretty easy to port it to the 360. A lot of companies coming on board now will probably start on the PS3 and move to the 360. The lucky thing for us is we didn't have to think about the 360 at all."

I don't think he was necessarily dissin on the Unreal 3 Engine. They probably had to design an engine that did more streaming of textures and such, to take advantage of the way the PS3 hardware works.

Looking back at Halo 2, when you swooped down towards the ground or a canyon wall, you'd see the textures jump from blurry, to more realistic. While a simular event(for the most part) in Rogue Squadron 2, didn't have an abrupt change like that. I'm sure Factor 5 doesn't want this same thing happening with Lair.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

well that UT3 shot looks pretty damn cool.

edit after reading the entire article: Wouldn't be surprised if Epic pulled UT3 from PS3 after those comments. And I know he said UT3 will be released on PS3. I'm saying after he got off the phone and talked to Cliff B and shareholders. They make the decision to pull it.

Uh... Factor 5 =/= Sony.