Wed, Aug 06, 2008 | 11:19 BST
Naughty Dog using “30-40%” of PS3′s power
In this ThreeSpeech interview, Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarchand has said the Uncharted developer’s currently working with less that half PS3′s available grunt.
“We think we’re probably only using 30 or 40 percent of the power of the PS3 right now, and there’s this great, untapped potential,” he said.
“All third-party developers can get the Edge libraries for free and are going to be able to use them in their own ways, to get more and more and more out of the PS3 over the years.”
Edge is a system of tools developed by elite members of the Naughty Dog coding Mafia.
“There’s a set of tools called Edge that were developed on the Naughty Dog premises, actually, by a group of very, very senior games programmer, some from Naughty Dog and some from elsewhere,” Lemarchand added. “I think it’s tremendously visionary of Sony to make these tools, which are largely low-level libraries.”
More through the link.
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Posted in: Development, PS3, Sony, Trade
Tags: naughty dog, Richard Lemarchand
11 comments
#1
Psychotext
05/08/08, 7:43 pm
Try harder you lazy bastards.
#2
Dean
05/08/08, 8:38 pm
FWIW, not all of Edge is developed on Naughty Dog premises.. there’s a good amount of stuff developed in SCEE London and SCEE Cambridge too.
#3
Psychotext
05/08/08, 11:11 pm
lol.. just read this at another site (Naughty Dog Quote):
Q) What percent of the PS2’s power are you using?
A) People think of systems as glasses and ask: “how full is the glass”. Unfortunately, that isn’t how it works. Any developer who gives you a “percent of system used” answer is blowing smoke.…
http://www.naughtydog.com/jak1/20Questions.htm
#4
No_PUDding
05/08/08, 11:45 pm
Psychotext, are you on NeoGAF, becuase I am sure I just read that in the thread over there? XD
Seems a bit stupid, but I suppose it was a long while ago and percentages do give SOME vague inkling of what they expect to be able to eventually get out of the machine.
#5
Psychotext
06/08/08, 1:14 am
It’s always a bit of a silly thing to say really… especially when there’s people watching your every move.
#6
wz
06/08/08, 1:20 am
If they don’t know how to use the full PS3 power, how do they know there’s that other 70% available for actual real-world game use?
If they know how to use the full potential, why are they not doing it?
(Yeah, pretty lame argument from me here, but they started sounding like PR, so I have an excuse.)
#7
ecu
06/08/08, 2:45 am
Or, Psychotext, it was a completely different person that gave each quote.
#8
Psychotext
06/08/08, 3:02 am
Of course… but you’re either toeing the company line, or you’re not.
#9
ecu
06/08/08, 5:12 am
Maybe their philosophies changed? It just sounds like a way of saying that they haven’t tapped the PS3′s full potential. Which is reasonable enough IMO.
There’s a difference between them being asked “what percentage of the power are you using?” (it sounds like a bit of a silly question)
and them using an arbitrary percentage to indicate that they still think the PS3 has more to offer.
#10
OrphanageExplosion
06/08/08, 5:14 am
If they don’t know how to use the full PS3 power, how do they know there’s that other 70% available for actual real-world game use?
The PlayStation tools include a performance analyser that shows you what the system is doing while it runs your code. A lot of developers are finding that their code is only using a relatively small amount of system resources. Similar tools are available for 360 and show much the same results by the way.
#11
wz
06/08/08, 12:02 pm
OE: Sure, I know that the figures are coming from some profiling mechanism, but my point was rather along the lines “how comes you know it’s there and cannot use it”.