Next-Gen Console CPUs Not Up to Hype

rAiNsT0rm writes "Anandtech follows up their initial in-depth coverage of the Xbox 360 and PS3 CPU with the real truth about the next-gen consoles' Poor CPU Performance. From the article: "Speaking under conditions of anonymity with real world game developers who have had first hand experience writing code for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 hardware (and dev kits where applicable), we asked them for nothing more than their brutal honesty. What did they think of these new consoles? Are they really outfitted with the PC-eclipsing performance we've been lead to believe they have? The answer is actually quite frequently found in history; as with anything, you get what you pay for."" Update: 06/30 21:11 GMT by Z : The original article disappeared from Anandtech, so I've changed the link to point to the story as hosted by Google Groups.

Who cares about the CPU?

[Stanistani]

I just want a lazy-susan thingie on the bottom of my new XBOX360 so I can rotate it the promised 360 degrees...

:shocked:

[yotto]

Slashdot needs emoticons, if just so we can pretend to be shocked.

Re:Random Thoughts:

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe I'm getting old.

Are you from Korea?

Re:in soviet russia

[Waikikamukau Slim]

I don't know what happens in soviet russia.
CPUs hype YOU! HTH. HAND.

Re:Random Thoughts:

[FleaPlus]

Where is the Coconut Monkey!?!

He would wave hello, but he has no hands.

(Yay for obscure references)

Re:Random Thoughts:

[AKAImBatman]

Can you ask him when Gravy Trader will be out? I've been dying to play it! ;-)

Re:Random Thoughts:

[IcyNeko]

I would so play those "Shooterz'R Kewl" games if they would only make "Grand Theft Auto: Vatican City". Can't wait to be driving the popemobile around and hitting vatican knights. :D

Re::shocked:

[tktk]

\(^-^)/

Oh wait...I think that's happy.

Here's shocked...

\(O_O)/

Re:Xbox 360 twice as fast as Xbox?

[ZephyrXero]

That's what really scares me about the current game industry. Everyone's so focused on their pretty graphics that the rest of the games components, like physics, AI, or even gameplay are taking a backseat. They might as well put "produced by Jerry Bruckheimer" on half the shit games that come out..

*P.S. Sorry to any Bruckheimer fans out there...but I couldn't think of a better all flash, no substance Hollywood guy at the moment :P

Re::shocked:

[JamesTRexx]

\(O_O)/

Looks more like a druggie getting arrested. :-P

Let me be the first to snark about the Overcell

[Roland Walter Dutton]

(No body but this.)

Re::shocked:

[epiphani]

\(O_O)/

Boobies! (In an underwire bra)

Re:Yay! You said Wing Commander!

[TuringTest]

Seems like these days, people are more for the look of the game than the thought process required to play it.

Funny, I'd say that's true for Hollywood movies, too...

Re:Xbox 360 twice as fast as Xbox?

[Anonymous Coward]

2) The Xbox 360 is using 2.4GHhz wireless controllers last I heard. Not a bad concept, but what happens when the battery dies mid-game? What about the cost of batters that add up over time?

Same thing that happens when your wireless mouse/keyboard dies mid-game...you shout FUCK! and replace your batteries.

-me

Re:So...

[SpinJaunt]

Ken Katuragi: is that you?

Re:No more free lunches; should we get used to it?

[Anonymous Coward]

The page you link to, "The Free Lunch is Over," has the entire article in one nice, convenient, concise, easy-to-read single page. It is not needlessly divided up into 7-10+ pages to generate more ad revenue for its author. Therefore, sad to say, it will never, ever, ever be posted to the Slashdot.org main page. Unless maybe you can convince one of the editors that it has already been posted before...

Re:Xbox 360 twice as fast as Xbox?

[JerryBruckheimer]

*P.S. Sorry to any Bruckheimer fans out there...but I couldn't think of a better all flash, no substance Hollywood guy at the moment :P

Oh, hey, no offense taken.

Re::shocked:

[Man in Spandex]

Here's a slashdotter facing a hot girl after months of playing dog hunt in his parent's basement.

\(o_O')/

Re:Great graphics, boring games

[illumin8]

I hope that the hardware *does* stagnate, and maybe devs will stop writing 500 lines of code to control breast jiggle in the next Dead On Arrival and instead brainstorm some ingenuity into the games instead.

Are you kidding me? I hope they spend more money than 500 lines of code on the breast jiggle... For my $50 I expect them to hire a top plastic surgeon to describe how the perfect breast should jiggle to the development team and developing a patentable breast-jiggling algorithm!

Dear God man! There are a lot of places in the game that can be skimped on: The story, or the gameplay is fine, but for god's sake, KEEP THE BREAST JIGGLE! ;-)

Re:Random Thoughts:

[karnal]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm new to this conversation.

Re:dev kits?

[Fussen]

Man having Triple AMD-64s running in sweet tune with each other would only be a step off from inserting a human brain into the thing and calling it the 3 Magi.

Re:Random Thoughts:

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe he downloaded them twice?