Developers take on Xbox 360/PS3?

[mkreku]

In one of the threads on this board, someone asked J.E Sawyer what he thought about the two new consoles, which one was easier to write code for, which one felt more powerful and so on. But considering that this is indeed the board of an experienced group of game developers who (probably) already have a project under development for one (several?) of the next generation consoles, I thought I'd direct the question to you!

 

So how do you guys feel about the new consoles? Rumour has it that the Xbox 360 might not be as powerful from a hardware point of view, but it makes up for it by having a well-designed developer's platform. The PS3 is supposed to be extremely powerful, but suffer from unconventional processor architecture and be somewhat of a challenge to write code for (except for the guys who make the Unreal 3 engine.. they think it's easy..).

 

Anyone feel like adding an opinion?

[Mark Havel]

The SDK seems to be still in alpha or beta state, so it must be quite hard to tell which machine is the most easily programmable. I really think the winner will be the one who will make developpement on his console easier than it's rival. However, some people said the architecture of the PS3 could end up by being not too difficult to program since it introduces a hierarchy in the cores of the CELL. I don't have any game programing nor console programing experience so I'm quite unable to say accurately such things.