[geeks] PS/3's, Linux, etc.

[Mike Meredith]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 02:56:28 -0700, Jon Gilbert wrote:
> it correctly. Of course, since the 360 is by far the most popular  
> platform at this time, most games are likely to be written for the  
> 360 and then ported to the PS3, resulting in worse performance on
> the PS3, if anything. Does that follow?

That follows, but I think you're mistaken on two points :-

a) Ignoring the fact that the PS2 is by far and away the most popular
   console, the Xbox360 isn't doing quite well enough to be considered
   'by far the most popular'. From various places :-

	PS3	4.48million
	Xbox360	10million
	Wii	8million

   Definitely the most popular but it has been out for up to a year
   longer than the other two, and a gap of 2million isn't spectacular.
   Curiously there are significant regional variations; in Japan the PS3
   is outselling the Xbox360 by a wide margin. And there's a suspicion
   that some of the Xbox360's sales are in fact replacements for faulty
   Xbox360s.

b) I don't think many games are written to the bare metal anymore, so
   porting isn't quite as hard as it could be. Besides, I don't think
   Sony is writing many games for the Xbox360 so any games written by
   them are going to be 'full speed' which gives an incentive for other
   software houses to go to similar effort.


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