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[Neon]

In a recent interview in Edge magazine, Richard Huddy, European Developers Relations Manager for ATI, spoke a bit about the technical aspects of the Xbox360. He also mentioned the PS3 -- basically saying that the unit had serious power but the power is "brute force" power. The Xbox360 was much more "refined," he said. "A pretty powerful piece of hardware, but just not elegant." Click read more to read it for yourself.

How do you think your work on the 360 measures up to PS3?

I take a fairly robust view on this. The Xbox 360 GPU is designed to be a console GPU - that's what we set out to produce when we started the collaboration with Microsoft; let's build a really powerful, really flexible kind of general purpose GPU which doesn't have performance cliffs where if you do certain things suddenly the performance crashes down by a factor of two or something like that; let's have things pretty predictable and easy to work with, and let's generate about the best performance that we can- so we went for things like the unified shaders and so on.

The PS3 has been designed in a quite different way because of the way the process worked. We sat down with Microsoft and said: 'This is what we think we can build', and they said: 'Yes, but what about...?' And they started picking holes in our design, so we came up with a collaborative design. They didn't put a spec in front of us and say: 'How much for this?' That definitely wasn't the dialogue - in fact that would make it more of a monologue; it would be kind of bidding on prices and so on. Instead what we have is a very collaborative design.

[RedInferno]

WHo cares about refined? LOL, i'm going with the one that has the most power, who cares how it looks...LOL, it's not like a car or anything.

[Neon]

no, they are sayin that is power that does nothin, its wasted potential.

[ShadowFox]

WHAT? Power's not wated potential!

[Neon]

imagine having a huge debt to pay off and the money in the bank, but you didn't use the cash to pay it.

The PS3 has power that so far is doing nothing, infact some games are reported to look still like the ps2 quality.

That is wasted potential, it could be used for more.

[ShadowFox]

hmm agreed... and I'm not a big fan of sony right now... I think I'll just save my money.

[stevenaxe]

the PS3 is complicated to code for as it is, it'll be a while before any programmer uses all of the PS3's potential

[Neon]

Well this is ATI the people making the graphics, i accept its not gonna be ready now but surely they should have real games, the XBOX 360 had playable demo's on early consoles and the PS3 is just basically a video OF.