Former Harmonix developer shoots down PS3 tech in rant

[wraggster]

A former developer at Harmonix, the team behind the hotly anticipated Rock Band, had some choice words against Sony's PS3 in his personal blog. His outrage comes as the most recent in many public outcries against Sony's next generation machine. He tackles so-called "misconceptions" that PS3 fans seem to have. Firstly, he says that the graphics capabilities of the machine have been misconstrued. "Fill rate is one of the primary ways to measure graphics performance - in essence, it's a number describing how many pixel operations you can perform. The fill rate on the PS3 is significantly slower than on the 360, meaning that games either have to run at lower resolution or use simpler shader effects to achieve the same performance ... And I'm not talking about small differences here, we're talking roughly half the pixel pushing power."

In regards to Blu-ray, the developer criticized the lower read speeds of the medium. "Great for watching movies, but not so great for games. Getting data off the Blu-ray drive takes about twice as long as it does to get the same data off the 360's DVD drive. That translates into longer load times."

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/10/26/harmonix-developer-shoots-down-ps3-tech-in-rant/

[iniquitous_beast]

"Getting data off the Blu-ray drive takes about twice as long as it does to get the same data off the 360's DVD drive. That translates into longer load times."

Two Words - Swap File. Ps3 games don't need to suffer long load times, due to the standard hard drive. Oblivion on PS3 uses 4.5 gigabytes of hard drive space for data storage. Thus, Oblivion on Ps3 loads just as quickly as the PC version does. This guy is just another guy who would rather whine than take the extra time to make things run right.