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Pachter: Mass Effect has to come to PS3 |
Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: BioWare, Electronic Arts, Michael Pachter, Pandemic Studios, Sony, xbox 360 titles
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Aside from talking about how Viva Piñata and its reiteration aren't enough to put the Microsoft Xbox 360 in front of casual gamers, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter expressed his confidence in seeing a port of BioWare's Mass Effect to the Sony PlayStation 3 after appearing on Microsoft's console as an exclusive.In part two of the latest episode of Gametrailers' Bonus Round, the Xbox 360 took the hot seat. The mainstay in discussions about the console - hardware failures associated with the red ring of death - came in as something that gamers don't talk about anymore after Microsoft increased warranty period to three years to address the problem.
When it comes to exclusives, particularly the recently released Mass Effect, Pachter said Electronic Arts will be making money from developers BioWare and Pandemic Studios (both recently acquired by EA) and not from games on single platforms. "That is multiplatform... I wouldn't be shocked if Mass Effect 1 came to PlayStation 3. It has to," he said.
The analyst also compared Microsoft's attempt to capture casual gamers with Victoria's Secret selling baby clothes, saying the Xbox 360 was made for hardcore gamers.
Check out the Bonus Round via the link below.
Via GameTrailers
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I think the best possible case for PS3 owners is that they get ME2 & ME3. I cant see how EA could get MS to distribute the original on a Sony platform.
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hopefully Blu Ray and the presence of a harddrive in every PS3 console will help them achieve that.
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especially since when i played it i was playing uncharted too which has zero load times... and i'd want that to be the case if ever they were to decide (which is unlikely) to release ME in the PS3 cause the load times of the game are so long...
i didn't say the game sucked, in fact i liked it... but if they are moving it over to the PS3 then they should do something about the load times cause it can be done, is there something wrong with me saying they should maximize what the PS3 can provide? personally i see nothing wrong with that.
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just correct me if i'm wrong.
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Uncompressed data is much bigger, and therefore takes longer to load.
The speeds of optical discs are such that even if you compress data, you can usually decompress them into memory much faster than you can load the equivalent size data from optical disc.
Hence compressing data is actually a means of improving performance.
So whilst Blu-ray has the space to store more data, it doesn't mean the files will be uncompressed. For example, if a texture file is uncompressed, then it may be 2 to 6 times bigger, meaning it will take 2 to 6 times longer to load.
Uncompressed data is only suitable for streamed content, such as audio for cutscenes.
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Each console have there strengths and weaknesses. The lowest common denominator is not exclusive to one console, but spread amoungst them for multi-format development.
For example, the PS3 has less ram available for games compared to the 360 (currently 40MB less than the 360), which has caused problems for many developers when porting to the PS3.
Hence in this instance, the PS3 is the lowest common denominator.
Therefore it's a gross exaggeration to state that DVD is hurting the games industry when it actually has it's plus points (i..e it's faster than Blu-ray), and it's minus of less capacity can be overcome in most cases by multiple discs and/or more efficient compression.
"If they do happen to put it exclusively on the Ps3, I'm sure it will make the game that much more technically superior."
It will be much the same except minor improvements, where such improvements are mostly due to more time in developement (like Oblivion on the PS3 which was released 1 year after the 360 version).
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Don't blame the 360 for bad load times, because games like Bioshock are just as and even more detailed than Mass Effect and have no problems. You could probably point the blame at Epic who was too busy trying to getting UE3 PS3 games to launch on time, a few weeks later than, or at least before the end of the year.
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anyway the game is AAA (coming from a PS3 fanboy who never admits to anything good on the 360)... if the sequel is a 360 exclusive then i might get myself an xbox for it (probably be cheap by then) unless my brother goes on a holiday again and he leaves his 360 with me again...
Devise... i played Bioshock but i didn't finish it, reason is i put in Mass Effect and then just started playing that game over Bioshock (never was a first person guy).
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