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Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
Devil May Cry 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi has said that Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game will be "pretty much identical".
"As far as the Xbox [360] and the PS3 are concerned, the capabilities and the features in the game we expect will be the same," Kobayashi told IGN. "Our plan is to pretty much make them identical."
He also confirmed that Dante will be playable in the new game with familiar moves and abilities, and will probably make an appearance later on in the storyline.
However, the focus of Devil May Cry 4 will be on newcomer Nero, a devil hunter belonging to the Order of the Sword. He wields a double-barrelled pistol called Blue Rose and an enormous sword known as the Red Queen, and will be able to pull off a myriad special abilities and attacks with them.
And while controlling Nero will feel instantly familiar to fans of the series, Kobayashi was keen to point out that the new star is far from a carbon copy of Dante. He's more sarcastic for a start - with quips and observations springing from his lips like something to something else that works analogously.
Unfortunately there's still no news on when we can expect the game, but both Xbox 360 and PS3 versions are expected to launch simultaneously, with a PC outing to follow.
Head over to our Devil May Cry 4 gamepage for all the latest news and media.
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citizenHUNTER
02/05/07 @ 11:32
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I've never played a Devil May Cry game so think I'm best suited to posting here. Ha ha. But alas why is the PlayStation 3 not going to show at least some headway on 360 graphics. Sooner or later surely. I can't fail to laugh at how hyped up the PS3 has been and how utterly ballsed up it's become if this supposedly superior console can only match something that's been out for well over a year and is significantly cheaper (yeah yeah yadda yadda bluray expensive etc). Honestly PS fans must think the PS3 is superior (in simlar vain to PS2 vs Dreamcast, DC in my opinion offering much crisper smoother graphics than PS2 managed for a long long time), but it's not really. Marginally and in time there's no way that it'll suddenyl be leapfrogging 360's graphics, not in any greatly perceivable way. So glad i bought my 360 now, despite it's few flaws (basically the noise + the HDD situation, and pay for internet play tho it's worth it).
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SeesThroughAll
02/05/07 @ 11:36
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So glad i bought my 360 now, despite it's few flaws (basically the noise + the HDD situation, and pay for internet play tho it's worth it).
So glad you managed to justify your purchase... You can also come back and justify your purchase further when your first red ring of death comes and you're waiting for the replacement. Few, but big, flaws there, mate. |
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kaosridder
02/05/07 @ 11:43
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^said the ps-fanboy thus spouting some more shit
And bullocks a few years ago, too. But even SDF have given up on Sony it seems. Or are the merely waiting for a surprise attack. Perhaps hoping that Halo3 will suck and then coming out in full force? Who knows.
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dirigiblebill
02/05/07 @ 11:48
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'Surely that means they are identical on purpose, regardless
of any technical adavantage each machine may have over another' Sure thing, but people will be a bunch of silly arseholes and turn it into a fanboy war. Does anyone here want to talk about the game, rather than the system it runs on? |
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chupachups
02/05/07 @ 11:49
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"was anyone expecting differently?"
The people who paid £430 for a PS3 instead of £200 - £270 for an Xbox 360? |
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kaosridder
02/05/07 @ 11:49
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Lex - good question. But then again many seem to care about utter pointless things like whether a soccer-team wins or not. Guess us humans want conflict.
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"Surely that means they are identical on purpose, regardless
of any technical adavantage each machine may have over another " Or regardless of how hard it is to program one over the other ;-) From this point on I doubt that any major cross-platform titles will look *that* different on either XBox of PS. Both Sony and MS will bust a gut helping developers to make sure their version isn't portrayed as inferior graphically. |
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SeesThroughAll
02/05/07 @ 11:52
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To me it says that on the 360, they're only going to use one of the cores, and that on the PS3, they won't touch the SPUs.
It means that neither platform will be pushed to its limits. Doesn't stop the game from being great, though.
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"But alas why is the PlayStation 3 not going to show at least some headway on 360 graphics."
But the PS3 graphics process isn't any better then the 360, so for most games there isn't going to be agraphical difference worth any note. (Crappy ports in either direction being the exception) The extra "power" of the PS3 should however lead to better AI and physics in PS3 games compaired to 360 and this can be used to make things look and play better. Try shooting the windows in Resistance and you'll see that the glass breaks in a realistic(ish) manner. And yes the 360 has the power to do this to a extent but the 360 is more limited on that front then the PS3. For the record I have both systems and they are both great. |
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dirigiblebill
02/05/07 @ 11:57
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I think this series is getting a little tired to be honest. Somebody needs to do an RE4 with it.
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fingersthebeaver
02/05/07 @ 11:58
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To all the people throwing stones at the 360 for reliabillity, it has taken a while to reach this level of problem and if you look at Sony's track record, and the fact you are buying a first generation disk player, it might be wise to hold of the attack for a year and see whether the PS3 is reliable or just new.
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chupachups
02/05/07 @ 11:59
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"Suppose a little but, but the extra cash for a more relaible machine and all the extras (if you want them) will make sense for a lot of people."
If you're worried about reliability on the 360, you could buy two Core 360s for less than the price of one PS3. |
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Wow... an article about a game being identical on both systems prompts more flaming that actuall points out the differences...
Well if you can't beat them... @Guff-Pipe PS3 Extras? Plural? As in more than one? Oh as the Wii has already been crowbarred in above... Surely the PC version will be the best. PS There is some sarcasm in this post (I guess I'm more Nero than Dante) see if you can spot it. |
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"Basically this says to me that it is being developed on the "easy to develop for - allegedly" 360, then ported to the PS3. "
If that is the case then they managed to keep 360 version quiet for along time, it was only anounce as 360 a couple of months back. Having said that it looks like a similar graphics engine to Lost planet, which in it's self looks like an extended version of their last gen graphics engine. At the end of the it doesn't matter which system it was developed on as long as they take the time optimise the engine properly on both machines. Cross-platform games are likely to look the same on boths system cos it's just not worth making to sets of textures and models unless you have to. In the last gen the xbox1 was alot more power then the PS2 to the point that it was worth making the effort to make the Xbox version look better. The 8Mb RAM in PS2 constrained it from the start, I remeber the developers of Grand Torismo 3 complaining about it because their orginal car models were 4Mb each! |
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If you're worried about reliability on the 360, you could buy two Core 360s for less than the price of one PS3.
Didnt really wan to get into this guff again as its pointless and I realise its horses for courses, but reliabiltiy aside what happens if i want, internet browsing through my main screen, a large HD (where I can store video), built in wiFi, free on-line service, built in HD movie player, HDMI output and no need for a play and charge kit? I had a 360 and it was fantastic, but in the ned I just wanted one box that had everything in. Nothing wrong with that is there? |
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Hypnopedia
02/05/07 @ 12:14
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@Guff-Pipe
At least all those extra's will fill the your spare time while you wait for games to play.... /holds hands up to cheap shot, goes back to his 360, his frigging 4th!!! ;D |
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@BigE0n
Because you have more processing power, it's fundemental fact that the Cell has more raw power then Xenon about twice as much, so if some writes an AI routeen and you could have 10 computer controlled characters using it on Xenon then you would be able to have 20 such computer controlled characters running on the Cell. Or you could have 10 characters with better AI |
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fingersthebeaver
02/05/07 @ 12:30
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@moz all of which would be pointless if your GPU can't handle drawing it. Same arguement for the physics, windows breaking into a million fragments is great but it will choke the GPU on a PS3.
At the end of the day I don't see either console having the upper hand in this generation on any front. So it comes down to the wonderfull point made by guf pipe, if you want the blue ray and internet browser go PS3 if not may as well buy the cheaper console. |
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Except DMC4 will be cheaper to play on the Xbox 360...heh sorry had to be said.
Not much of a shock though. It is the same game, doesn't really matter about the power of the console, if they made them different to each other that'd just cost more for capcom and probably upset a few fanboys. Meaning theres no point! Its the same game on different consoles. If it was on the Wii on the other hand, then it should be different. |
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more Sarcastic???!! Dante is one of the worst characters in any game cos of how cheesy and 'uncool' he is, and they make this new guy more sarcastic? actually i'm sure i heard him shout "slamdunk!" when hitting an enemy...erm yeah how about not aiming the game at little teenage boys? i finished the 1st game and gave the 3rd a chance, now i am completely washing my hands of this crap, i cant stand the cheese. Not to mention the fact that the enemies are there as combo fodder nothing more, only the bosses are somewhat a challenge, the action genre has moved on and DMC doesn't seem to have noticed that.
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@Moz
Except AI sub routines have barely changed in the last ten years especially not in terms of resources needed and besides there's no way the RSX could handle twice number of bad guys on the screen at the same time. Besides when your fighting 100s of opponents at once you don't want each of them to have perfect AI as it would be impossible to play, you would want them pretty dumb (see Dead Rising, Kameo, Dynasty Warriors et al). What you really want is smart squads in your game but games like Half Life 1 have been able to handle this for years. The cell could theoretically handle physics better then the 360's CPU, but by the time developers have truly got to grips with it other developers will be farming it out to the 360's graphics card as it reportedly was designed to handle physics as well. |
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"So it comes down to the wonderfull point made by guf pipe, if you want the blue ray and internet browser go PS3 if not may as well buy the cheaper console."
That plus first party games. And your probably right about the physics choking the graphics card in that respect, but you could see more realist rag doll ect on PS3 as well as AI, if this is going to going make games any more fun to play or not is yet to be seen. |
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You can see it's the same engine as Lost Planet so the 360 was probably lead port.
AI hasn't improved much for years and years. Halo CE is better than most current releases. The reason must be it's a monumental task to create free-thinking unbreakable AI code as the hardware has been increasing but the things you shoot are still pretty dumb. |
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Eighthours
02/05/07 @ 12:55
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It's the 360 fanboys that spout the most shit, tbh.
It really isn't, mainly because at the moment there's no need for 360 owners to defend their machine's capabilities! |
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sanctusmortis
02/05/07 @ 13:03
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Mein Gott, you people make Minter weep.
Look, it's a GOOD THING. Everyone gets a fair deal, as one version isn't stunted compared to the other. Quit bitching and sniping about hardware. IT'S. A. GAME. |
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