Re:Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis
by masklinn on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @02:08PM
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> This claim that the SPEs were difficult to use and maximize may have been true in the early years
The 7th gen appropriately "lasted" 7 years, "the early years" was a ton of it.
> Naughty Dog, a key contributor to the PS3 graphics libraries
ND is a first party studio, that means access to information and efforts to push the platform most developers can't justify, especially as third parties would usually need cross-platform support: the PS3 was no PS2.
> so much that porting PS3 games to the PS4 was "hell"
Which proves the point: the PS3's Cell was an expensive, unnecessarily complicated, and divergent dead end.
The 7th gen appropriately "lasted" 7 years, "the early years" was a ton of it.
> Naughty Dog, a key contributor to the PS3 graphics libraries
ND is a first party studio, that means access to information and efforts to push the platform most developers can't justify, especially as third parties would usually need cross-platform support: the PS3 was no PS2.
> so much that porting PS3 games to the PS4 was "hell"
Which proves the point: the PS3's Cell was an expensive, unnecessarily complicated, and divergent dead end.