Vanquish Producer: PlayStation 3 "sports car", 360 "car everyone

Vanquish Producer: PlayStation 3 is a "sports car" While 360 is a "car that everybody's driving"

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Platinum Games Atsushi Inaba, a producer on shooter Vanquish, has highlighted differences between PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by comparing the two consoles to cars.

"The PS3 is kind of like a sports car that's very high-performance and specific in its usage, whereas the 360 is more like a car that everybody's driving," he told VG247 at E3.

"It doesn't have the same range as a sports car, but it has more versatility."

Platinum is using the PlayStation 3 as its lead platform for Vanquish after their previous effort, Bayonetta, was criticized because the PlayStation version was viewed as substantially inferior to the Xbox 360 version.

"It's about adapting your game to those two sorts of different frameworks.

"That's where we're focusing. Fundamentally, the gameplay experience itself is the exact same game."

The shooter is being made for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but it's understandable why the PlayStation 3 is being used as the lead platform. Numerous titles that have been developed using the Xbox 360 as the lead console have experienced problems on the PlayStation 3. Fallout 3 was criticized for having inferior graphics on the PlayStation 3 despite the console's graphical prowess, and Bayonetta suffered from frame-rate issues and other graphical problems as well.

While Inaba's comments could ignite debate between PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 camps, the honest truth is that his comments simply mean that the two are different in their composition, and thus, in how they can developed for. Developing a game for an Xbox 360 isn't the same as developing a game for a PlayStation 3.

It seems that, given the trouble Platinum had with Bayonetta, this is a proper direction for Platinum to take. It would be better for them to try developing with the PlayStation 3 as the lead platform to see whether the transition from PlayStation 3 development to Xbox 360 is smoother and less fraught with graphical issues.

Could other developers take the same approach in order to avoid problems that they have run into when porting? It's possible.

Shinji Mikami = God

So what they're saying is that the PS3 is the car you bring out twice a year when it's not raining and everyone thinks you're a bit of a tool for having it (even though they secretly want one) while the 360 is what everyone owns, accepts and is generally happy with and can take a bit of punishment.

Sometimes analogies really don't work.

My PC? Well, that's the A-Team van. Fast, lots of room, black...and ain't no foo' gonna touch it, sucka*.

*This metaphor may have wandered slightly.

that's a pretty stupid analogy, a more accurate one would be the 360 is a car and the ps3 is the same car but the interiors are slightly different.

this...should be interesting

yeah bayonetta was great on a sports car

no thanks, skipping halo of wars

We all know this 8)

so.. what he is saying is.. PS3 owners, please buy my product! I know we put out a horrible version of a game last time.. but really, we love the ps3, it's awesome!fastr

We all know this 8)

Mestitia

Is Vanquish releasing this year?

so seing as how they failed to deliver a solid game on said "sports car" doesnt that make them the regular gasoline and other developers like naughty dog premium? Its ideal for your "everyone car" and gets the job done wihtout complaints, and I mean sure you can put regular unleaded in a sports car, but it isnt competent enough to get the same performance as premium gasoline. So in other words they admit that they suck as a developer...

Japanese bias, nothing more to see here.

Japanese bias, nothing more to see here.

Dead-Memories

lol... carmack also said the PS3 has more potential processing power.. US bias??

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Japanese bias, nothing more to see here.

lol... carmack also said the PS3 has more potential processing power.. US bias??

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Japanese bias, nothing more to see here.

Dead-Memories

lol... carmack also said the PS3 has more potential processing power.. US bias??

That was not obviously sarcastic at all...

If anything, the cars (consoles) are nearly the same - except I'd say the 360 is automatic and the PS3 has a stick shift.

so seing as how they failed to deliver a solid game on said "sports car" doesnt that make them the regular gasoline and other developers like naughty dog premium? Its ideal for your "everyone car" and gets the job done wihtout complaints, and I mean sure you can put regular unleaded in a sports car, but it isnt competent enough to get the same performance as premium gasoline. So in other words they admit that they suck as a developer...

tutt3r

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lol... carmack also said the PS3 has more potential processing power.. US bias??

That was not obviously sarcastic at all...

For ****s sake, didn't the guy who designed the Cell CPU say that the PS3 and 360 are about equal in power. -_-

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[QUOTE="Dead-Memories"] was obviously sarcastic but sure. Dead-Memories

That was not obviously sarcastic at all...

Clearly they are, I took alot of realise you weren't being sarcastic there.

For ****s sake, didn't the guy who designed the Cell CPU say that the PS3 and 360 are about equal in power. -_-

WhenCicadasCry

Cool so that must mean I own a sports car, a standard car, a mini cooper (wii) and a G5 Airplane (PC)

Big **** Playa!

Developing a shooter with the PS3 in mind 8)

Ya a Miata is considered a sports car too....................................

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For ****s sake, didn't the guy who designed the Cell CPU say that the PS3 and 360 are about equal in power. -_-

kuraimen

Why so much love for these two pieces of worthless OLD plastic A single 2007 GPU is enough to piss all over the PS3 and 360. There no Pandora's box hidden potential, a PS3 its an OLD piece of hardware, that's its quite irrelevant on today's technology. So you may want to stop this silly war now, because its pointless and worthless LookAnDrolL

Fighting for 2nd place is all they have to live for though

so.. what he is saying is.. PS3 owners, please buy my product! I know we put out a horrible version of a game last time.. but really, we love the ps3, it's awesome!fastr

yeah, pretty much:lol:

Bayonetta was a bad game, this looks worse.

so if ps3 is a sport car.... the sports car got beaten by the sedan on bayonetta.

i dont know if i would want an expensive sports car that performs worse than a sedan.

So many sarcastic comments :P

In anycase, Im only slightly interested in vanquish to begin with, so hopefully having ps3 as lead can make it that much more solid.

So many sarcastic comments :P

In anycase, Im only slightly interested in vanquish to begin with, so hopefully having ps3 as lead can make it that much more solid.

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