EA: PS3 Red Alert 3 back on

JsonHenry - 421 days 22 hours ago

Maybe they will allow keyboard and mouse support on the PS3?

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Gothdom - 421 days 22 hours ago

I feel for you neo_ad. I was about to do the same, but I would've had to upgrade the old computer.

I will get the PS3 version day one instead.

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green - 421 days 23 hours ago

Sorry buddy but EA makes more money on the 360 than they make from the PS3,PSP and PS2 combined. http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

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ultimolu - 421 days 23 hours ago

Did you analyze the *overall* total in terms of Sony?

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Ju - 421 days 22 hours ago

Not only that. It looks its also the first 3rd party trying to push PS3 further (1080p and BD content? Hell, yeah). Somebody found the key to PS3 development, it seams.

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cheapndirty - 421 days 23 hours ago

It costs much more money to make native 1080p content and have it at 30-60 fps. There are more picture elements (pixels) at 1080p than 720p and costs much more to make that play smoothly. Most 1080p games are upscaled 720p games.

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Fishy Fingers - 421 days 22 hours ago

Costs more? What you mean finacially? I dont quite understand what you mean.

Simply put, 1080p is a higher resolution and there for requires more system resources to run. It usually results in sacrifices being made else where, Anti Aliasing, Physics, players on screen, FPS etc etc

Doubling the resolution from 720 or 1080 is a massive leap and requires you to find a lot more power from somewhere. Sometimes it's just not viable, whether that be through not having enough power or maybe even time constants.

The Devs have to compromise between performance and visuals.

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Ju - 421 days 22 hours ago

Not just that. But also way more memory is used. Which means, the frame buffer alone would double your memory footprint in vram. This puts a strain on texture memory, not to mention the higher bandwidth you need to render those images.

Some games do not have this high texture requirements and thus can possibly run with less texture memory (so, say, higher resolution, more geometry but lesser textures/low res textures would work fine). If you can manage that, then 1080p is just fine.

Procedural textures can also help lowering the memory footprint (or compression/texture streaming). When this tech is more and more available, and they can use creative ways to run stable 1080 (like Wipeout runs a per scan line dynamic resolution between full 1920 and 1500 or so), I would imagine, we'll see more hi res games.

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I Call 9MM - 421 days 17 hours ago

Well said Fishy Fingers and Ju. It's not only a matter of how powerful the RSX and the Cell are, but how much available memory there is available for the framebuffer. 1080p takes twice as much memory as 720p, since there are double the pixels to draw. I'm sure if the PS3 had more available RAM (I would ballpark somewhere between 796 and 1024 megabytes), and if the RSX was a little more powerful (though many clever developers use part of the Cell to aid in graphics processing, so not necessarily needed), then I would bet money that there would be a lot more games out there running at 1080p right now. But, Sony probably figured it was loosing enough money already on the hardware due to Cell and Blu-Ray (those blue laser diodes are expensive), that 512 MB of RAM cost enough as is, more would have been too expensive. (on a note with those diodes, this is why some other companies are try to make another new high density format off of more conventional red laser diodes since they are cheaper to make).

Anyway, all that being said a game like RA3 should be able to run at 1080p. There really isn't a whole lot going on texture wise, the PS3 should be able to crunch out lots of geometry no problem. If you check the games for windows performance index (even though RA3 isn't labelled for it, apparently it still uses it), it uses a 4.1 out 5.9 as it's recommended setting, and a 5.9 doesn't mean the most powerful hardware out there, just the current maximum. That isn't very powerful hardware, and so PS3 should handle it fine. Maybe no AA at 1080p but come on, you gotta give something for it.

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FantasyStar - 421 days 22 hours ago

I admit, I laughed. Good one man.

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ELite_Ghost - 421 days 22 hours ago

really cool indeed...

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