Bugbearin seuraava peli on Flat-Out

Vielä kun tulisi rataeditori tuohon ja mahdollisuus tehdä 'stuntteja' niinkuin muinaisessa Stunts / 4d sports drivingissä, tuo voisi olla aika täyttymys. Mutta taidan uneksia turhaa tuollaisesta pelistä..

-Eipä se paljon tunnu loistavan, kun vertaillaan XBox / PS2 pelejä. Kun samasta pelistä on tullut versio molemmille alustoille, on XBox versio aina ollut parempi (parempi framerate, paremmat äänet, paremmat tekstuurit, laajemmat kentät / extra kentät...).

Samoin pelintekijät aina kiittelevät XBoxin helppoa ohjelmoitavuutta ja MS:n tukea pelintekijöille, yksi asia mistä Sonya taas aina moititaan. Ja Sonyn "hienot" ominaisuudet ovat hyvin vaikeita käyttää:

Lähde: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1561&p...

There is no doubt that the NV2A GPU is much more powerful than Sony's Graphics Synthesizer which is the graphics processor contained within the Playstation 2. The GS does not feature any of the pixel or vertex shading capabilities of the NV2A and it derives most of its power from extreme parallelism. While the NV2A has four parallel pixel pipelines, the GS has a total of 16. Not only does that waste die space on the chip itself making it more expensive to manufacture, but it also places all bets on each pipeline being fed regularly with data in order to extract the most performance out of the processor. The GS also has no T&L unit which means that the host CPU handles all of the transform and lighting calculations whereas in the Xbox, the 733MHz host CPU can be freed up from any T&L and vertex setup calculations.

Ja lisää:

The power of the two VUs exists in the proper use of them as serial counterparts in handling the T&L calculations necessary during 3D rendering, but with the PS2 being relatively new architecture and dramatically different from what most developers had seen in the past, getting the most out of the host CPU was quite difficult. This is where the majority of the learning curve for developers came from when dealing with the PS2, especially considering that the PS2 shipped to developers without any C libraries. Writing assembly to control the interaction between these two units and the rest of the CPU is not an easy task to say the least and led to many frustrated PS2 developers. Internally to the CPU, the VUs and the rest of the CPU are connected by 128-bit pathways meaning that moving data around the CPU from VU to VU isn't done as easily as possible.

The culmination of all of this is that PS2 games have been branded as being very aliased and poor in image quality mostly because of the lower resolution and lower detail levels that game developers are forced to use for textures combined with the usual aliasing issues.

We've already discussed the merits of the Xbox GPU as it is undoubtedly the most powerful GPU on the market today. It's a tried and true solution that is a direct derivative of the NV20/NV25 cores and is given twice the memory bandwidth of the PS2's GS.

Ja tässä vielä pari pelintekijöiden mietettä (peli: Deathrow):

Lähde: http://www.teamxbox.com/article.php?id=455&p=2...

Q:Why did you choose to make Deathrow for Microsoft's console and no one else’s?

Rodrigo C: Like I said before, no other console can do the stuff the Xbox is capable of. It's not only the graphics but lots of other stuff as well. Like the 64 Megs of unified memory that we can decide exactly where we want to use those Megs and allowing us to have 1024x1024 textures on the bodies of the characters and 512x512 on the faces. The hard drive allows us to stream the characters from it. Or the whole streaming of the sound making us have more and better sound than any game before. If I'm not mistaken we stream more sound than what the Xbox has in memory. So we are extremely happy with the Xbox hardware and we have just scratched the surface of what the Xbox is capable of.

ja toinen (suomalaisten Transworld Snowboarding):

Lähde: http://www.teamxbox.com/article.php?id=453&t=i

Q: With consoles, a lot is made of the "Big Three" manufacturers. Why did you feel the Xbox was the best of the three to develop for?

Harri T: Xbox's got the best hardware and tools. That was the main reason.

Ei liene enempää epäselvyyksiä... :)

Mutta ei se niitä pelejä helpommin konvertoitaviksi tee, ps2:sen arkkitehtuuri on totaalisen erilainen kuin pcllä. Xboxille konvertoiminen on naurettavan helppoa kun pc-xbox konversioon ei tarvi tehdä saman directx-rajapinnan takia juurikaan muutoksia.

Missä mielessä parempi? Edustavamman näköinen, tehokkaampi ja kauniimpikin ehkä, mutta ei varmasti käytännöllisempi.

myydäänkö niitä jossain samaan hintaan???
minnekäs laitoinkaan visani....

Mobile Celeron 733MHz, muistia taisi olla 64Megaa ja virtuaalimuistiakaan tuskin on vaikka laitteessa kovalevy onkin. Pelikoneeksi siis melko köyhä vaikka näytönohjain onkin melkoisen tehokas.