EA Slams PS3, Saying Its Tools "Just Suck"

[BrewCityUpstart]

If this keeps up, something massive is going to boil over in waves between the world's biggest video game publisher and Sony. Electronic Arts have had their issues developing titles for the PS3 (Madden NFL 08 was certainly inferior on Sony's next-gen system), and they've made plenty of excuses. But the latest isn't an excuse; it's an all-out accusation.

Check out what a NASCAR developer from EA Tiburon said to Xbox Evolved, in regards to a PS3/Xbox 360 comparison:

“The truth is the PS3’s tools and the way it works just sucks. The truth is they are both virtually the same in terms of hardware when it comes to how powerful they are, maybe the PS3 has a few different things that makes it a bit more advance, and Sony has this idea that it is designed for optimal development but that’s a load of crap. In the last generation we would make the game for PS2 and then port it over to Xbox, but because Xbox was easier to develop for, we could actually enhance the title a little if we wanted to. The case with this generation is different, now we make the game for 360 first and then port it over to PS3, but we really don’t have the time to mess with how the PS3 works to really add to much more. It will change in the future, but for now it sucks.”

Well, this is bound to set the sparks flying. There are several parts of this statement that make it sound as if EA is completely incompetent, and others that actually sound viable. But in general, we can only compare to what we've seen from other developers on the PS3...and we have to conclude that EA, quite simply, is lagging behind. There are plenty of great-looking PS3 games on the way, and 2K Sports has already said one of their titles, NBA 2K8, would run at 60fps on the PS3, very much unlike Madden 08.

We're not really sure what EA's problem is, but they had best figure it out. Fast. Most every other developer seems to get it just fine, and these sour grapes aren't only borderline-fanboyish, they also seem to misrepresent the PS3 development process. Crytek is excited about their PS3 project, Epic is preparing a very pretty Unreal Tournament 3, and Killzone 2 looks pretty damn amazing. Ain't Sony's fault EA can't deliver the goods, is it?

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[Dom]

Ea sucks, they need to watch their mouth, any of you played bf2 on the 360? cant even keep a server up the noobs.

[IMP4C7]

Originally Posted by Dom

Ea sucks, they need to watch their mouth, any of you played bf2 on the 360? cant even keep a server up the noobs.

EA's servers in general just suck. Its even worse in BF2 for some reason though. It's pretty much a given that after 4 games the servers will go down for a given amount of time and you'll have to play something else or hang games for a while all together until they come back up. There are even certain times that stats won't load and any games that you play ranked will not count during this period of time. It doesn't help any that people can drop a certain game at any time using a glitch in the system if they feel like it.

EA fails.

[GoatMother]

lol, perhaps he'll explain why Nascar on the 360 (and PS3) sucks so much ass.

[The Milk Man 09]

I enjoyed Bf2 on both Xbox and 360 but the servers did suck hard.

BTW wasn't it EA that said they were going to start developing all their titles on the ps3 first?

[IMP4C7]

Originally Posted by The Milk Man 09

BTW wasn't it EA that said they were going to start developing all their titles on the ps3 first?

EA doesn't know anything until it actually happens, even in their own company.

[Dom]

Ea Blows ^,^

[BrewCityUpstart]

EA doesn't know their asshole from their elbow.

[Dom]

haha gud'un

I cant stand ea they justmake crappy franchises upgrade the stats on teams and change anumber each year, Cant stand em.

[The Milk Man 09]

Yea for a long time and even still EA has become the Mediocre game company.

[IMP4C7]

EA has officially been changed to Mediocre Arts.

[Dom]

hehe :P

[The Milk Man 09]

Yea, I first realized this after playing the old need for speeds up until nfsu I liked the original underground but after that one when the second came out I liked it but i realized that it just seemed half done and just more of the same old game just in a city.

[Dom]

Yup, its like a port from ps2>xbox in a way, or ps3>360 or vice versa, no upgrades just a cheap port but charge the same every year, Thing is 90% of people are dumb enough to keep paying for em.

[The Milk Man 09]

I don't I like sports games but if I can play them in real life I'd rather do that.

so pretty much the only sports games I do like are the ones that I can't go out and play. lol.

[Dom]

Hehe same, i.e street racing can be fun for a quick fix now and then, but thats why ya borrow games hehe

Im wanting to get into rockclimbing but theres no centers nearby which do it, Hmm sony bring out a rock climbing game plez lol

[BrewCityUpstart]

Originally Posted by Dom

Hehe same, i.e street racing can be fun for a quick fix now and then, but thats why ya borrow games hehe

I bets thats noisey with all the horses and carriages racing around there in merry old England. Pip! Pip!