well we all knew from E3 07 that Harmonix was all over M$'s nuts!!

That's interesting, and he puts up some very good points. The only rebuttle I have is what he said about Blu-Ray. I'd rather have a slow-loading experience than a fast-one that also tailors a VERY LOUD CONSOLE. Seriously, it's so loud I'm scared it'll break, plus the excess heat is contributing to the failure rate as well. I'm still am a firm believer that Blu-Ray is the Next-Gen storage medium. Trying to keep an almost 10 year old format is stupid. If we apply that logic, cassette tapes would still be around.

Harmonix = M$ Cabana Boy

Not good points really.
I doubt Rock Band even tried to do good utilization of the SPUs and all PS3 hardware; he is basing it in his "VAST" experience with the PS3.  Also, about Blu-Ray, while this is probably true, he forgot about the HDD in all PS3s which by the way allows games to store data locally for easy access.  I know that, he as a "GOOD" developer should too.

Regardless of what is said, so far the proof is in the pudding. PS3 games have run slower and in some cases have had lower resolution textures than competing 360 games. Until the PS3 proves that this is a developer issue and that the hardware itself is not flawed, people will continue to choose the 360 over the PS3...no matter how many times they drop the price. The bottom line is not that people think the PS3 is expensive. They think that the PS3 is inferior and overpriced. So far they are right.

After playing Madden 08 on PS3 and 360, people don't ask "Why is EA lazy?" they ask "Why does the PS3 cost more when it's not even as good as a 360?"

whats going on with the xbot type comments?

w/e i love my ps3 i im completely confident in its superiority over 360 or wii this guys just mad he went from employee to former employee

deppends on the dev's if u get difficoult math question u can ignore it and say its hard or use 10 hour on it and make ure other 100 questions easyer.

what this dude is saying is no doubt, brd capacity is more even if it is 2x faster then dvd reading from point 0-last takes some time and if u wanna use info on them middle you should find tech, and about the slower yadayada, if you wanna overcome that u gotta push something here and something there, it should really be fun to push that wall and find a big hole behind u can put lots of things.

besides the game his talking about dont need 4gb songs and gameplay there is not much really, with the effects behind u cant possibly ask for much shadow/lightning effects just extreme effects.

there is no such thing as lazy dev's just dev's that don't like to explore, the more reason for them to quit.

its truely hard to work and not get anywhere but the second u get inn, its worth every sec maybe they should try it

@se7enthsign,
haven't you seen R&C?... that just proves it all the way both for the graphics and loading times; I've never seen anything so crystal clear.  What about Lair?  although some didn't like the game play, you cannot deny the graphics are superb with no annoying loading time.

This dude is posting his opinion all over the amazon.com message boards! What is this guys deal? Is he being paid to talk crap about PS3? Get a life man!

Look at games like R&CF:TOD och Killzone2. That is some good-looking graphics to say the least! To say that PS3 is weaker than 360 is just so idiotic!

I think alot of this is just Xbox propaganda - but I will say we need more great games and Sony needs to stop "f"ing things up ie: Warhawk update, R&C glitch,EOJ copy card cheat, and they need to do ALOT more to help 3rd party devs so the ports are better. Nothing more frustrating than a better Xbox version!!

wow, stop the hating dude. Will this ps3 hating ever stop.

Honestly, I can give 2 s**ts less about what some herb loser M$ employee has to say.

I have been gaming for 21years. To all you little kids on here listen clearly.

Buy Games. Don't worry about anything graphical. PS1 PS2 have proven themselves. PS3 will too.

Also if there is a game you enjoy, like LAIR, if you read all the articles about it being bad, just rent it. If you enjoy it, than buy it.

Also all i want to know is when does HAZE come out.

I seen CALL OF DUTY 4, I truely believe HAZE is way better. Graphic wise, and even play mode, the things you can do is sick, dont believe me, check out www.gametrailers.com they have sick videos of it.

Also i have pre-ordered Assassin's Creed, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and HAZE. just they guy at bestbuy didn't give me an exact date for HAZE.

ALSO I DONT BUY FROM EB GAMES OR GAMESTOP. They suck

Also I pre-ordered a PS3 Dual Shock 3. Play-asia is out of stock. But i got my from California.

www.japanvideogames.com

thats where i got mine.

I wonder how much Microsoft paid Jason Booth to say this?

And why would they get some random guy from a crappy development team to say something like this? Would it not be better to get someone with a little power to say it?

psn id: gingo.... hmmm yeah so infinity ward were lying when they said Call of Duty 4 looked better on the ps3, NO!!!!!! dont be stupid whoever you are not many people say the graphics on xbox are better anyway and that doesn't really matter because look at the ps2 and xbox, xbox had superior graphics but got absolutely mauled

I will some it up in a few words

HE HAS A BEARD!

No main reason TO rubbish PS3 he gets thousands of hits on his blog plenty of evidence on the net that the PS3 can do what it claims, R&C,MGS4,GT5,KZ2 I mean did Naughty Dog NOT say 30-50% power useage for uncharted!15-20% of power used in MOTORSTORM and has it not been said that UT3 AND COD4 will be better on PS3 than 360 AS FOR Blu-Ray WHAT ABOUT GTA 4 was dvd for 360 to cramped for storage the guy is an @55 the more he writes the bigger an @55 he becomes!!!!!!!!!

Rob

I have just as much confidence in my ps3 as anyone else but too many people are saying to much crap about the system and sony has yet to prove anyone wrong...with all the delays ( i mean alot of delays) , developers saying how difficult it is to develop a game with the ps3 and games not on par with the 360s. Im starting to get really pissed off.....I think we deserve some official answers from sony and soon

.If sony has developed a system that is inferior to the xbox 360, and they have been charging way more all this time, this guy is either full of crap. or we have all been screwed.

If what he said was true, then how come microsoft hasn't been bringing up these points before?

I know a few developers and they are saying the same thing as this guy, that the PS3 is hard to develop for and blah blah, but they are saying that the hardware does have streignths just like the 360.  But they are also saying that Blu Ray with a 2X speed drive is slow.  All this means nothing to me, what I need right now are exclusive high powered games!!!!

Motorstorm does take to long to load.  Sadly, since I dont play around, I sold the game because of this.  Got way to anoying.  But the game itself is sick!  Shows what the PS3 is capable of once developers get into gear.

Does anyone take into consideration that the ps3 is NEW ground bracking technology, the cell engine and blue ray.  OFC its harder to use its f8kn new! I rather have a system that devs are having problems using at first because its advance than a system that has almost out dated technology that will be obsolete in 2-3 years.  I buy things that last longer and are superior ps3 wins both cases.  The reason why we have lower frame rates are from crappy ports, which is due to lazy devs.  Just because something works good on 1 system doenst mean u can just bring it to another system and it will run exactly the same.  I think win Unreal Tournament 3 comes out it will show how obsolete the 360 will become in 2-3 years.  Also this guy is a former dev for a reason go get a f8kn life.

former Harmonix developer!!! so he got fired or something, and he is obviously mad

And thats why he is a FORMER Harmonix dev.

he is just a crappy developer that needs to vent on his failures.  Rock band... wow who gives a crap.  He probably gave up on developing for the ps3 cause he doesnt know how.  what a lame blog post.  f'n ms supporter.

Next, I would like him to explain how games like Gran Turismo 5 (the demo alone is amazing), MGS4, and Killzone 2 are done...I can wait

Then why others are not doing it.

Well how can i beleive somethng like that when Oblivion loads faster on the PS3, and i hear COD4 performs better on the PS3, and with game like killzone 2 being possible on the PS3.  Dude the games that you made need not much power from either system, and you are used to making games on the 360, so let the pro talk about, stop acting like if gamers were ignorant even though some of them are.

to be completely honest, I believe the guy to an extent. however, I also think it's just a matter of time and patience. The ps3 is a great machine, but doesn't appear to be devoloper friendly. The only reason I haven't bought an xbox, is because they're are only two games I really want that are exclusive. (and it is LOUD!) Anyway, I just hope Sony comes out with more tools to help the devolopers that are "lazy" or just may not have enough time to make great games.

@13 Teekenlord - yeah when they start delivering! Ive had the system since day one , over a year now and Im still waiting!               

@18 I agree we need some official answers fron SONY-I too am getting fed up!                                                                            

this guy sound very bitter

What I don't understand is why all these former devs are always attack the PS3 like it caused them to lose their job? :E

Remember he's an ex-employee, his work would have involved around PS2 and maybe 360, he's probably only had a glance at the PS3's hardware? I looked at his blog and there are 152 comments many saying how he doesn't know what he's talking about and they try to explain what this and that means.

and we all know the high level of technical expertise to expect from harmonix. Seriously the only people who are critizing the PS3 are people that suck at making console games. Survival of the fittest guys, you can't keep up, you'll get left in the dust.

You all are fools. The reason why developers make a easy copy for the 360 first and delay the ps3 is because they are lazy.

The architect who made the CELL (he isn't from sony) said "the reason why 360 games are better because the developers are too lazy to work with the cell, it's just easy to work with the 360 and port to PS3.

As for other devs. That's why UBISOFT wanted ASSASSINS CREED to be PS3 EXCLUSIVE.

DEVS LOVE THE PS3. Just wait till ONE NONE LAZY DEVELOPMENT TEAM (ala Naughty Dog, Slant Six, Factor 5, Insomniac) crack up every possiblity for the PS3 to make the sickest games ever.

They already are with Resistance (all that explosion with no lag right on release of the PS3

Ratchet & Clank (everything about it)

Uncharted (seems to be from what i read all over the internet one of the sickest games to come out this year)

LAIR (hated in the USA loved in JAPAN, regardless you cannot deny its breathtaking beauty of visuals).

SO GET OVER IT. SONY WAS, IS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE KING OF GAMING (took over nintendo's crown, nintendo is just warming the chair until our return in 2008)

SONY KICKS B(_)TT in 2007

Resistance: Fall Of Man - Brand New Exclusive Game At Launch Date of PS3 (new title)

Motorstorm - Best Visual Racer to Date

LAIR - Visually a beautiful game (only problem is the controls which can be patched fixed)

HEAVENLY SWORD - ABSOLUTELY A MUST HAVE (mix of Sega's Shinmu and Dynasty Warriors combo mash)

WARHAWK - Must have - I have flight SIMS. But boy does this make me love em

UNCHARTED - I have it pre-ordered (enough said)

HAZE - From what i have read it looks to be visually a masterpiece. The gameplay i watched at gametrailers made me pre-order it 2 days ago. For me its this before CALL OF DUTY

TIME CRISIS - Finally the return of the gunco

Assassin's Creed is a MULTI Meaning STILL LOVES PS3

SONY RETURNS IN 2008

SOCOM

God Of War

Metal Gear Solid 

Final Fantasy

Killzone

The Agency

Little Big Planet

Grand Turismo

Eight Days

Afrika

GTAIV (its multi meaning STILL LOVES PS3)

Resident Evil 5 (still loves PS3)

Devil May Cry (Like the other two above they were born on PS3, so they are staying with PS3 also..multi)

L.A. Noire (still only labeled for PS3)

The Getaway

Plus many other titles in the works, including that ROCKSTAR ALL NEW PS3 EXCLUSIVE.

So now for you guys to know, the main reason people talk mass s**t about SONY PS3, is because M$ needs to ruin SONY on FALSE FACTS and BAD SPOTLIGHT (anyone good can look bad in the wrong light, and vice versa)....before it explodes with games and flys off the shelf,

Why do you think M$ had a jump start on NEXT GEN GRAPHICS AND LOVE TO MAKE BIG DEALS ABOUT GAMES GOING MULTI????

ANSER: because they DO NOT HAVE any good games BESIDES halo and gears of war, and because since they have no games, they needed a reason to sell systems, hence all the talk ABOUT GRAPHICS and not a list of atleast 20 BRAND NEW XBOX EXCLUSIVES

O.k After a wile people get realy anouying with the " PS3 sucks, The ps3 is a crapy console." The truth is, there just mad because they couldn't wait for the ps3 to come out so they got a 360. There just mad because the ps3 is better in EVERY way possable. There just mad because there use of microsoft giving them realy cheap and crapy tools for realy cheap and crapy hardware for realy cheap and crapy games. There not use to realy good hardware and a challenge, thats why people like halo so much, because its not challenging. There just mad. It is always the smallest minds (and the dumbeist) that fall for microsofts tricks. Think about it for a xbox 360 elite it cost 499$ pluse 170$ for the hd dvd you have to pay 70 $ a year for xbox live. And don't forget the games and other cheap hardware you wanna get for the 360.  Over time that adds up to over 1400$ With the ps3 you pay 500$ for the 60 gig and thats all you have to pay for. The internet is free, Blu-ray comes with the system, and wireless internet conectivity or Wi-Fi! Thats up to about 500$ so, which one is more expensive? And as graphics are conserned the ps3 wins! 

I think he is bitter cause he got turned down for team Konami and Free Radical...lol...no for real though....After seeing uncharted, Heavenly Sword, and Liar, R&C game of great production value, within the first year of the PS3 , he cant tell me @#$%, he needs some better evidence to support his claim, cause right now the PS3 is looking dam good.
And what if the blu-ray is "slow", thank God for the included hard drive huh. Real devs dont make excuses, they man up and showcase their skills. I mean thats what they get paid for right
 

lol@first comment :D

Can he PROVE what's he's saying.

Go to h*ll and go suck on Bill Gate's balls again.

I I I I I I I I need a hot towel man, A HOT BALOO MAN, NOW. IWANT TO BE FAMOUS IN THIS NETWORK. POST SOME COMMENTS NOW FOOLS, pretty please with cheese on top

SInce he said getting data off of blu ray takes twice as long than the 360 dvd drive then um why are most rpgs for the 360 3 discs and 4 discs. Like if mistwalker completed lost oddessy for ps3 it would fit on 1 disc no problem. But since its a microsoft backed and owned internal studio its not coming to the ps3 and the ps3 doesnt need it.

right all of us pubic dont agree with  this! ha! ha!                 

He is just bashing... that is all.  The only rebuttal is in what Sony has coming up....but that is the kicker...they are not here yet.  Sure they have a couple of good games that start to show what the PS3 is capable of...but until Sony helps release the "flood" of quality games... people are going to believe anything people say when they don't know anything about the system.  I personally believe EA especially has MS's interests up their behinds and purposely put out bad ports so crap like this can feed the fodder of xbots such as this guy.  It does say he is a former employee...probably got fired for not being able to comprehend the PS3's architecture and now is just trying to get attention.

The funny thing about that is how many 360 games run at 1080p right now? How about halo 2.5? It ran at 640p because of lighting? And that's what he's trying to attack the PS3 about? Get a life, man, and stop advertising for M$ for a blowjobb from Bill Gates.

You Guys ARE VERY FUNNY

PS3 ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

dont think i need to say anything....already been said in almost every comment above..

except...Jason Booth just got OWNEDDD!!!!!

Has he ever heard of streaming? Last time I checked Resistance and Rachet and Clank have faster loading times than Halo3. And after what I saw from Killzone 2 this guy can go get fired from another game company. I will admit Graphically the 360 has a slight edge, but its soon to change. Until then I like playing both systems and people like this guy and Gabe Newell are just hidebound idiots.

THE WORD "FORMER" says it all...... what if his buddies who still have a job love the PS3 arcitecture?...... besides, i havn't even heard yet that rockband is on 360, is it?..... we don't hear about the devs that like the PS3, cuz there busy WORKING.... M$ has made is so easy to SH!t out games, devs are losing the whole point of making games...... i miss the days when gaming was art......

well this has got people fired up.  At this stage it is difficult to assess which system is truely superior, the facts are the Xboxes Xenon GPU (ATI) is more advanced than the PS3s RSX (Nvidia), how much the Cell processor can compensate for the difference is unknown.  The PS3 with it's Cell CPU should be more powerful (AI & physics), but currently developers say they find it easier to access the 360s 3 cores than PS3s 7(accessable) cores.  So it becomes a question of not just raw power, but how much power can be utilised simultaneosly.  MS will release quieter/more reliable SKUs in time as chip fabrication moves to smaller processes, but in the end the games will do the talking.  This is the longest I've sat on the fence before jumping into the next gen, maybe the physical immersion experience may help to decide too, if visually there isn't enough to seperate the systems... I hope DS3 uses real force feedback/touchsense, rather than basic rumble, as reported.

Umm, the processor doesen't have to make up for anything. It's just the way the PS3 was made.

This is an argument from almost a year and a half ago. I don't even know if these specs are still right. It's kinda like how some developers complain that they can't understand the PS3's ram architecture but the makers of Killzone 2 said that the levels are well over 2 Gb each and it doesen't even load once throughout the level. You just gotta know how to work the PS3.

ps3 is by far the winner  !!

Just  click to see this article and all you will be sure about it(you will find all the technicall aspects you need).

http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=22858

the above thread is by a bunch of kids on a PS3 forum discussing how good the PS3 is compared to other platforms.  Comparing console PSUs to PCs is just rediculous!  Console PSUs are HEAVILY stripped down versions of PC PSUs don't even try to compare, you'd be lucky if both 360 and PS3 PSU get anywhere close to the computational capabilities of a Pentium 3, never mind their modern PC counterparts (why do you think consoles are relatively so much cheaper?)... like I said, ultimately let the games do the talking.  Arguments about resolution are pointless as the Xenon can perform better at 1080p than the RSX, and besides most HDTVs can upscale so you wouldn't see the difference anyway.  Ultimately, the games will decide the winner not a bunch of whining fanboys worried about the future of the platform they commited to.

This crap was debunked months ago. for all the supposed speed increase of dvdp you still loose it in decompressing the "enormous" amounts of compression you need to fit it on a DVD.

Undoubtedly there'll be someone more knowledgable than me to come along later and call BS on everything this dork has to say, after all If he's a former employee of Harmonx it has to be for a reason seeing as the aquisition by MTV would more then likely make the company capable of HOLDING ON TO employees rather than booting them out. He's probably just some disgruntaled 'Hole who M$ paid to talk for them.

He's probably mad because he got fired, and he cant program worth sh!t so they fired him so as far as i'm consered he a idiot, get a job you fu*k tard, and one you dont obviously suck at, and one that you can actually do. Because Rock band is nowhere near the most impressinve lookin game i've ever seen, dumb SSA.

I think he might be right about the blu-ray and dvd thing blu-ray good for movies but maybe not as good for games as old fashion dvd but ps3 graphics look sharper and more detailed compared to the 360 thats a fact

What an idiot!! Way to bring back all of the old and proven wrong "facts" about the PS3. Funny how all of the PS3 exclusives, look better than all the 360 exclusives. Those devs must have figured out what you couldnt.

I think we all knew that Xenon is better in some aspects. That's because Cell more than picks up the slack. And I was under the impression that RSX was designed from the ground up to be an absolute shader monster, so I dunno.

How can this guy say what can and can't be done on a ps3? Has he mastered the architecture? I'm glad that people are struggling with the PS3 architecture. If they are having lots of trouble and still producing games like R&C, Uncharted, GT5 etc, that means the console has somewhere to go as devs become more familiar. I mean, look at the first ps2 games, then shadows of the collosus, killzone or god of war 2. Whereas the 360 might not really have that much more power to be unlocked.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA What a loser...pissing against the wind...after some dev's have already come up with killer games, with killer graphics...stupid, jobless turd, who must be living in social security

this guy is retarded. why do people always talk shti about the ps3? its better than the 360. he probably cant afford a ps3 anyway

I can sum this guy opinion in one sentence. Developers can be fanboys too! He seems very good about knocking PS3 weakness in theory but the strengths where no where to be found. You mean tell there's not one good thing about PS3. Alot of people seems to kissing the ground M$ walks on. Most are praying that PS3 stays right where it is, last. The Nation is in love with 360 so even if PS3 doing something better they'll put it under the microscope and find something to knock it for. Case point this guy opinion. 360 are blowing up left an right but nobody talks about that but PS3 never had a problem. "Oh PS3 doesn't have enough ram per SPE" I'm sticking with Sony and I like their in house team so I saying for myself screw this guy opinion.

What a d0uchebag

I love how the article starts with "Former employee." Maybe if he spent more time at his job trying to learn instead of crying about things being to hard maybe he would still have a job and understand more about programming instead of just complaining.

@Alpha and @Daz

You are correct, these are issues talked about back in 2005 that were all proven to be wrong. Well, except the Blu Ray part. Now, I'm getting into this. This is what I call flat out BS on. The makers of MGS4 are saying they are having a hard time fitting MGS4 on 50Gb. Okay so, if I were to do that on DVD, that would make.... 6 Dvds minimum required. No developer is EVER going to do that. It would be suicide for your game. Secondly, if any developer found that they needed a DVD for faster loading times (please, someone is really reaching here) then they still have all rights to create their game on a DVD. THAT'S RIGHT. THE PS3 ACTUALLY PLAYS DVDS GUYS, AND HAS ALL RIGHT TO LOAD UP A GAME ON THEM. THATS WHY IT READS PS2 AND PS1 GAMES. So if Blu Ray was some kind of problem, (which it is actually the best thing to come to gaming in many generations) then the developer would simply make it on a fcking DVD. Simple as that. Reported as a fanboy maybe payed off by M$. He brought issues up that were disproven back in 2005. Case closed guys, have a good one!

I cannot believe it: a developer who has only worked on simple games (RockBand, GuitarHero), that will run perfectly if no hardware acceleration was used - whines about things he could have never experienced himself.

His whine about BD being 2x slower than DVD is a bit exaggerated. BD will always read at 9MB/s, while DVD will read 8MB/s up to 16MB/s (depending on physically where in the DVD the data is).  DVD will read at 16MB/s _only_ the outer cyllinder. For devs, having BD's constant read-speed is good. Anyway, HDD cache can be used, too :)  . 

"Games have to run at lower resolution". Ha! Anyone heard of a 1080p x360 game? I've only heard of 640p games:  Halo3, PerfectDarkZero, PGR2. This is not HD! What does 640p look like?  Take a 720p image, and scissor-out a 440x440 rectangle - that's it! Haha. You see jaggies everywhere in 640p, ruins the game.

Actually the only game I saw to run on 640p on PS3 is THPS:ProvingGround. Yet another ugly port, they simply forgot to return it to 720p for the PS3 (since it runs at 640p on x360). Meanwhile, Skate runs perfectly in 1080p, and there are no framerate drops (but you need to tweak its HDD cache first ^^ ).

I remain skeptical if Booth will ever get his hands on a serious project. Maybe that's why he was chosen by Microsoft to start spitting nonsense around.

That guy is clearly "Not Smarter Than A 5th Grader!" Just because he's PS3 Challenged doesn't mean things can't be done! He's forgetting that the PS3 drive speed is only running @ x2 and the BD's are also running @ slow speed due to it's new technology, it's the same case of when DVD's first arrived and was loading and running slow on computers because they were new! I'm sure developers from Konami, Sony, Polyphony,etc, beg to differ from his lame excuse! Meh!

"suggesting the pubic share a number of misconceptions on a hardware level when comparing it to the Xbox 360. "

Lolzers, and thats all I have to say XD

Devs are scared because the PS3 will make the lazy ones obsolete. Think about it, if you dont learn how to use the new stuff, your stick to the old stuff. If the old stuff goes away because its useless, what happens to you?? lol

I am a very patient gamer and all the exclusive PS3 games have looked way better then the 3rd party creations. The PS3 is a solid piece of machinery which has the potiential to blow away the 360 because of its specs (Cell processor, Blu Ray, etc) Sony is giving away free Dev kits so imagine how the games are gonna look and play, especially if these games are made from studios who give a s**t about their craft enough to stick with it...

Lol..this guy who with Rock Band "not a next gen graphic game"..is bashing on a ps3...nice...learn how to spell blu ray...right their shows how unknowledge you are.

Who cares about this guy opinnion. He problably tested the plastic guitars at harmonix.

Jason Booth, a former employee at Rock Band developer Harmonix.

It says "Fromer" so he must be pissed of  for loosing his job maybe?

They can talk,they are all bunch of talkers,the can keeeep talking tell they  blow.

HAHAHAHAH.

devs talk crap about both systems all the time so who decided this guy was important.  Especially since he doesn't even develop games anymore.  I got one thing to say to him "You Dont Matter!"  This is why you blogged this.  One day it was raining on you box that you now sleep in(former employee) and you realized you dont matter so you went to the public library and blogged crap about the ps3.  Seriously he gives bj's for crack now.  I'm dissapointed in mike Harandence the author of this for even posting this crap.  Your mother should be ashamed of you.

se7enthsign, people dont think the ps3 is inferior. The only ones that do are xbots. And that's complete bull.  Only reason 360's are selling better is because devs are lazy and dont want to learn a new platform when they get paid by microsoft to code explusively for their system.  Enough said.

It is correct that Bluray is slow - it transfers about 1/3 less Megabytes per second compared with DVD. It's a serious problem that keeps Bluray out of commercial storage automation products.

He does say thats its OK for playing movies but he is only pointing out that as a data storage medium its not very good. Data storage devices need good I/O and throughput of atleast 160Mb/s whereas Bluray can only manage beytween 40 - 50Mb/s and has poor I/O and bugger all cache.

But as for the CPU & GPU is it 5% better or 5% worst...who cares? They have different characteristics so one will have better floating point ... the other superior memory bandwidth... give a bit take a bit... so what? We are not out here buying consoles and racing them, we are buying consoles for playing games.

This is why its stupid running articals like that one on PSU ran a week or two ago titled "Eight PS3's = One Super Computer" the story tried to imply that somehow PS3 is equal to a Supercomputer... You know what - its not. and nor is Xbox 360 and nor is a PC with two quad cores & SLI. Comparing a PS3 with a relic Cray 2 (built 20 years ago) is dumb for two reasons: (1) Anyone who knows anything about tech is going to laugh at such lame BS - these stories are made up for chumps. (2) It tries to hype up PS3 specs & raises the expectation that PS3 has to somehow live up to (and naturally can't).

Be happy with what you have - dont compare benchmarks and just judge the performance of PS3 (or Xbox or Wii or PC or whatever you have) by how much you enjoy using it. Judge by your satisfaction - not specs. Otherwise you will always be dissapointed.

I think that this is the reason this guy is a FORMER employee.

hang on a second, when i played oblivion on ps3 it had a longer draw distance than on 360 so this guy is full of crap.

Sorry, but I played both versions of Jericho and the PS3 one wins hands down even with the framerate issues. The x360 has a higher fps but the aliasing was pretty bad, and the bloom was WAY overdone just like every other 360 game. And the Mercury Steam engine used in Jericho is the best I have ever played. The physics, god-rays, particles, textures, animations, all positively top notch. Also, Rockstar and Ubisoft already stated numerous times that DVD9 has reached its limit. So it doesnt matter how fast it is if you cant fit your game on it now does it Mr. Smarty Pants? I am really glad this reject is not making games anymore. Leave it to the professionals. pwnd.

this guy is an idiot......was the xbox ever used as a super computer????? NO!!!! the ps3 is still in its early stages.........if anyone can remember 360 graphics sucked when it first came out. they were compared to sum of the best xbox games....the old xbox. developers jus need to get around to using the technology for the ps3 wel.

Is this guy a game developper? What was the last game he worked on for the ps3? Well he can say what ever he likes, in about by newt year 2008 or 2009, we shall start getting the reminding the crirics about their staements when developpers start to unlock the hidden or undiscovered abilities of the ps3.Please PSU.com keep this news in your archieves well so that we shall remind 'SIR J BOOTH'  of this incidence.

Guys there is nothing to unlock - there is no hidden computing power buried in "the cell CPU" Programmers will fully understand what they have to work with but the nack is designing the code to fit best within the architecture. There are limitations mostly to keep the die size down to 90nm and transister count down to keep it cooler and keep costs down. Cell is a modified PPC with a simple VMX equal to the Altivec unit in a PPC G4. Anyone who has worked on Apple Powermac G4's will have an idea. The SPU's are not as powerful as full cores so programmers have to be careful how they use them because they can handle 2 instructions at a time, have their own local memory (this is good) but they are tied together by a shared 512k cache so without a better VMX it is certainly no match for a PPC G5 with double precision.

If Cell was as powerful as some of you guys think it is then IBM would be using it in "P" series servers and Apple would have used it. At the same time Cell is a heap better than any past console CPU and is in broad terms at worst equal to the PPC in Xbox 360 and in some area's potentially better in other area's not as good.

My feeling is games need to be explicitly optimized for the Cell, rather than using the compiler do it. Porting from the Xbox PPC to the Cell version wont do PS3 any favors. Programmers will have exploited the Xenon's 3 x 64 bit PPC cores on the Xbox 360 and these wont easily translate to Cell. So we need games to be developed on Cell but for this to happen Sony needs to attract publishers and assist them financialy until the market size of PS3 is about the same as Xbox 360. Publishers are in business for profit and not charity so if the market of PS3 users is less than 6 million and Xbox 360 is greater than 12 million - what do you expect from them? Sony has to make it worth their while.

A) He sounds like a disgruntled ex-employee.

B) He doesn't seem intelligent enough to program for an Atari 2600, let alone a PS3.

C) His lack of intelligence is probably what got him fired in the first place.

D) Sounds like someone needs to rinse the sand out of his vag!na.

LOL @ MechaDaddy

And as for TheCleaner

Okay mate, I'll go. You say there are no "hidden power" to unlock on the cell? Well, when games are using 17 percent of the cell power, I think we still have about 73 percent still to go just to get to where the games are using as much on the 360s processor. Ya, that's right, Halo 3 has to run in 640p because they couldn't have it in 720p because the dam thing was maxed out. The sad thing is, having the PS3 using 17 percent of the power, most games still look better than on the 360. So I'd say we have a LOOOOONG way to go before we actually unlock the cell's power like you believe we can't Just take a look at this site.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=170864

Killzone 2, which is still VERY early in the PS3's life, is the best looking game they have ever seen.

And that's just the dam demo!

man what a total reject

thats a load of bull! lol

As mentioned above I remember Microsoft releasing an article a couple of years back trying to say how the ps3 architecture was not good for gaming.  Well everyone soon found out that everything in that article was absolute BS an now this guy is saying the same crap again.  As for the Blu-ray thing, sure DVD's have faster read speeds but that not going to help if developers cant fit the game onto the disk to start with, secondly whats stopping sony from updating the ps3's blu-ray drive's firmware to increase read speed.  Its a waste of time writing about crap like this.  Again as mentioned above Halo 3 was supposed to show off what the 360 can really do, all I can say is what a dissapointment.

His points are far from valid, first being that 24 PS3 titles run at 1080p and only 2 XBox titles run at 1080p.  Hmm... wonder which system is higher-def!!  Secondly, the PS3s voilet-blue ray diode can read 90 MB of information a second, so it can read through an ENTIRE XBox game in a little under 2 minutes.  Ouch, I sure hope I can't burn through a game that quick... my PS3 might slow down!!!  If anyone has any doubts about PS3 and blu-ray technology... go pick up a copy of Ratchet & Clank Future, every XBox owner will have a PS3 once they see games like this!!!

boo hoo the nasty man said nasty things about my PS3!! he must an idiot who dosen't know what he's talking about how dare he insult my PS3, i mean no one on this site  ever says anything bad about the 360!

come on guys get over it and just enjoy the games, thats why we spend all this money on consoles in the first place. its not a pi$$ing match to see who's machine is the best.

this is what i call a Xbot

This man is a total numnut, i just wanna say that the PS3 is using 3x speed when playing blue-ray discs because blue-ray discs have very tight packed data than the DVDs. this guy must have been payed by M$ to say this and he couldn't have seen this: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6125087/index.html?type=tech or then he never played a PS3.....can't wait for GTA IV!!!!

PSN ID: CDT_boss