EA Sports Nascar 08 developer: PS3 development tools "just suck".

[Rodster]

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Why does everyone think that devs or even anyone who works at a corp are uptight, guideline following, by-the-book type of snobs. They are just like you and me...if "sucks" happens to be in his vocab then its in his vocab.

Absolutely because it's 1) unprofessional and 2) it has the potential to damage relationships with one of your biggest customer, Sony. I still call it BS, this article is fake IMO.

[Altimus]

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Absolutely because it's 1) unprofessional and 2) it has the potential to damage relationships with one of your biggest customer, Sony. I still call it BS, this article is fake IMO.

Probably is.

But that idea is probably going through some of the developer's minds.

Hopefully that changes soon though.

[bkfount]

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Absolutely because it's 1) unprofessional and 2) it has the potential to damage relationships with one of your biggest customer, Sony. I still call it BS, this article is fake IMO.

actually, it's more like Sony should make it easier for developers like EA to make better games. EA doesn't need to optimize their games for the ps3 to sell, their games will sell regardless.

[MassNole]

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I gotta ask, do the tools really suck or are EA's programmers just too stupid to be able to work with them. Lord knows the lack of quality of their games since Madden 2006 for the 360 would suggest the latter.

[Herd90XB]

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I'm really getting put off by EA. 2K doesn't seem to have any problems developing for the PS3 and IMO, both Madden 08 and Nascar 08 suck.

[mgoblue]

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I'm really getting put off by EA. 2K doesn't seem to have any problems developing for the PS3 and IMO, both Madden 08 and Nascar 08 suck.

APF was 30 FPS for PS3 and 60 FPS for 360, so that isn't true

While it wouldn't surprise me that this report is false, we've just gotten more than enough "Developers say PS3 hard to develop for" reports that after a while you have to believe it.

[mercalnd]

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I'm really getting put off by EA. 2K doesn't seem to have any problems developing for the PS3 and IMO, both Madden 08 and Nascar 08 suck.

-APF2K8 runs at 30 FPS, just like EA's football games.
-CH2K7 had some rather bad framerate issues
-I've heard the PS3 version of MLB 2K7 is quite bad compared to the 360 version but I haven't played it.

[Picci]

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APF was 30 FPS for PS3 and 60 FPS for 360, so that isn't true

While it wouldn't surprise me that this report is false, we've just gotten more than enough "Developers say PS3 hard to develop for" reports that after a while you have to believe it.

Not saying this is not true, but when EA was porting the PS2 game over to the XBox back last generation, what was the excuse then? I still say they're being lazy.

[ThaGenecyst]

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Not saying this is not true, but when EA was porting the PS2 game over to the XBox back last generation, what was the excuse then? I still say they're being lazy.

There was no excuse... the developer states this:

In the last generation we would make the game for PS2 and then port it over to Xbox, but because Xbox was easier to develop for, we could actually enhance the title a little if we wanted to.

See? Since it was easy to develop for, if they felt like enhancing the game and adding things, they did. Ease of development helps just like blu-ray disc space helps.

[Herd90XB]

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APF was 30 FPS for PS3 and 60 FPS for 360, so that isn't true

While it wouldn't surprise me that this report is false, we've just gotten more than enough "Developers say PS3 hard to develop for" reports that after a while you have to believe it.

I stand corrected. You are right and like someone else mentioned, MLB 2K7 wasn't nearly as good on the PS3 as the 360.

[Picci]

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There was no excuse... the developer states this:

See? Since it was easy to develop for, if they felt like enhancing the game and adding things, they did. Ease of development helps just like blu-ray disc space helps.

Again, and I may be wrong, but I can't think of one game that had enhancements on the Xbox version that the PS2 did'nt have.

[Altimus]

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-APF2K8 runs at 30 FPS, just like EA's football games.
-CH2K7 had some rather bad framerate issues
-I've heard the PS3 version of MLB 2K7 is quite bad compared to the 360 version but I haven't played it.

CH wasn't bad. At least not as bad as some people would make you believe.

MLB2K7 frame rate wise was way better on the 360. Both had problems but on the PS3 the drop in frame rate would affect your hitting.

But who would want to play 2K7 for the PS3 when they can play The Show?

[BSanders]

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Well it doesn't effect me at all because EA has released nothing but junk lately so I don't see any future purchases for my Ps3 besides Skate that involes any EA games.

[Pared]

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why are we listening to a Nascar 08 developer regarding anything about making good games?

[coffeeholic]

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Again, and I may be wrong, but I can't think of one game that had enhancements on the Xbox version that the PS2 did'nt have.

ESPN 2K5 halftime show is the only one I can think of .