Horses Mouth

Posted by taoski | Filed under Gaming

I was playing Texas Hold Em poker on XBox Live last night and out of the 10 or so people that were playing, only 2 others (apart from myself) were chatting via the headset and mic.

It transpired that the two people, who I shall just call “Mr A” and “Mr B” worked for a computers games company and were quite relaxed about what they were saying. Games testing, new titles, new hardware and internal Gamertag based score leaderboards were all discussed – but the stuff that caught my ear the most was about the Playstation 3.

Mr A: “I have a tech-demo of working I can show you tomorrow if you want. It’s just basic geometary stuff at the moment with bad clipping and error handling, but the effect is there.”

Mr B: “Is that on 360 or PS3?”

Mr A: “Both. The PS3 dev kit is also online too – it took me about 40 minutes just to get a login [to online] to test the online bits for our games. is testing on our PS3 dev kits at the moment and is due to go to Alpha in September.”

Mr B: “So, you got the PS3 Test kits then?”

Mr A: “No way! Still only Dev kits! Sony have’nt even released the proper test kits yet and is due to go alpha in September! The Dev kit is real jumbled anyway – no user interface – hardly anything. We will struggle to alpha by September.”

They also chatted about various other games in development and test phases which was quite interesting. But not as major as them admitting (without them knowing i was listening) that the PS3 is still in a real mess. They did mention which company they work for but I shall not mention which one – but they are a major player. For them not to have anything near a PS3 to test their upcoming games on was a bit of a shock!

A PS3 launch this year? I think not!

Comments (11) | August 24th, 2006

11 Responses to “Horses Mouth”

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    August 24, 2006 at 12:37 pm

    Bullsnot.

    This is untrue. How dare you say anything remotely bad about my beloved PS3 machine. IT’S NOT TRUE!!!

    I got to pop my pimples now. Bye.

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    interesting, they probably knew people were listening.

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