The Big M's Matt Lee dishes on 360 vs. PS3 [UPDATE]
Major Nelson points 360 Fanboy to an Ars Technica (comically misspelled as Art Technica by Nelson) interview with Xbox 360 developer Matt Lee. The interview covers a wide range of topics but doesn't get truly interesting until Lee starts discussing the differences between Xbox 360 and the upcoming PS3. To wit:
"In terms of performance, I think that the PS3 and the Xbox 360 will essentially be a wash. We ran the numbers a while back and the two systems come up surprisingly close in theoretical peak performance, despite the one year difference in release dates."
Despite the one year difference? Oh, snap. The article has lots and lots of techno-babble that I won't pretend to understand, but it's sure to be a good read for the technically oriented. Oh, and it sounds like Matt Lee is all about Wii60.
The best quote in the piece: "When we announced 512MB of unified memory on Xbox 360, I think all of our game developers (and the artists too) did a little happy dance." Hey Matt, put that on YouTube and we'll blog it.
[Via Major Nelson]
[Update 2: Fixed a rather grievous typing error. Added category.]
