@turtlebird95 said:
The frame rate is seriously that bad? The 360 version never drops below 60. :/
It's 30. The 360 version of Minecraft remains locked at 30.
@sinusoidal said:
@ll_exile_ll said:
@sinusoidal said:
Isn't the Minecraft guy rich enough by now? Half my middle school students in Korea are sporting some variety of Minecraft flavored clothing or stationery these days. You'd think he could take some of that money and at least make a decent PS3 version.
You're right, how lazy. Everyone knows money is the most important aspect of game performance. It has nothing do with system architecture, engine design, rendering techniques, or content scaling. Money is all you need to make a good port.
And it's not like even the best developers in the industry still have trouble porting from 360/PC to the PS3.
We're talking about a four-year-old game that has sold over 30 million copies and has been ported to a bunch of different platforms where it works just fine. Yes, it does sound like this version was just a lazy cash grab on their part.
I think pretty much everything that Minecraft was ported to had as much or more RAM than the 360. Also, most of those were portable, slimmed down versions. The 360 version was almost the whole package, save for the fact that its worlds were much smaller. Remember that Minecraft has to randomly generate chunks as you move through its world; the 360 version limited this a whole lot because of RAM. And Minecraft doesn't seem to need all that much in terms of video memory, just system memory for storing what chunks had been generated and where they were in the world, hence the 360's advantage. The PS3 doesn't have this advantage, and so we have an inferior port.
If I'm wrong, and I'll fully admit that I'm not completely informed on this matter, then someone tell me. But hey, it sounds like a reasonable guess as to the performance problems of Minecraft to me.
Still, this is comparable to Skyrim in one other way - it shouldn't have been released on a platform that it can't run on.
EDIT: Also Mojang is headed by some guy named Jeb now, not Markus Persson, and there are several people involved that aren't Markus Persson. He may not have even had anything to do with the port to the PS3.
Log in to comment