Technology

The console gauntlet has been thrown and for a while now many gamers and game developers have been debating over the PS3 and the Xbox 360 which of the two will rise to be the champion console.  

The PS3 has superior processing power with alot more potential but that hasn’t really slowed things down because, until late, the Xbox 360 still had enough to keep up. On top of that, it was much easier for game developers to code games for the Xbox as it was an older platform and had more memory (specifically bandwidth, alot more). Well, that’s not going to be the case much longer…

Game developers generally code for a particular console, then port the game over to other consoles. Xbox 360 games usually have no problem being ported over to the faster PS3 box, however as of late it’s getting harder to port PS3 games over to the weaker 360 system. In some cases, the Xbox 360 is using 90% of it’s system resources to keep up.

So, in this war - Xbox 360 vs Playstation 3 - it’s gonna be the latter by far. Until Microsoft comes out with another gaming console (or widespread upgrades to the 360, which isn’t likely), Playstation is going to have the edge in producing cutting edge games. Right now, the margin is small - but that won’t last for long. To keep up on news concerning this check out gamers evolved.