Question about the future of games for PS3?

Question

It seems to me that the PS3 has the best available hardware and the Blu-ray sorage media provides the greatest potential for the gamer and the gaming experience. It seems to me that the programmers out there are dumbing down their games to provide a market for all the available consoles. It makes no financial sense to write an expanded and enhanced version for the PS3 that would be far more detailed than the XBox 360 version.

Has the PS3's full potential been restricted by the limited capabilities of the XBox 360? Although the trend is starting to shift for the PS3, I do think that it has been negatively impacted by a capacity limited XBox 360 (the Wii is not a competitor of either as it is little more than a toy).

Answer 1

I think you're right to a degree.
Fortunately, Sony is good a creating AAA titles in-house and has some developers, such as Konami, who seem to favour them.
Hopefully, this will embarrass other developers not to release shoddy ports (cough EA sports cough) when we can see what can be acheived.

Answer 2

Well if if you are into multiplatform games based on movies like the famtastic 4 or spiderman ... the developers dumbed those down long before the ps3 came out....Developers of games like rainbow 6 vegas are actually using seperate engines and the ps3 version is more intense...It's only the generic multiplatform games that are dumbed down to the 420i level on both the 360 and the ps3 .......The full potential of the ps3 hasn't been tapped due to the fact that the whole system is ahead of it's time and so far no one knows the full potential.... Ratchet and clank for ps3 has over 4000 AI charactors (they do their own thing --not programed to follow a path) So I can't wait to see how that game plays ---

Answer 3

First off if they 360 didn't have the room ON THE DISC they could put it ON THE XBOX Live marketplace and people could put it on their hard drive. Second Graphics are LIMITED TO THE SYSTEM. Face the fact that it is harder to DEVELOP FOR BLU-RAY. The developers DON'T KNOW THE FORMAT YET. Give them time. Do you think the first Playstation CDs were quick when the developers still knew cartridge and had to learn CD? It took them time to develop the format. Well now they KNOW the 360 format, still DVD, and that is the same format as a COMPUTER so they have to learn a format that is ONLY for PS3. It is SONY that limited the PS3 by making the developer learn a format that no one else was using. Is Sony helping them develop it? Is Sony paying them extra? If not they will focus on what they know. They will make games for 360 and PC because it is the same format and then PS3 will just get stuck with that same game.
OK I want to expand on my point that graphics are limited to the system. I could have X computer and you have Y computer. We get the SAME game. You have a better graphics card. It looks BETTER on your system. Still works good on both systems. My point is that they can make games look great on the PS3 and STILL work on the 360. Heck look how long it took to get graphics like you get on God of War 2 onto the PS2.