Destructoid have contacted Bethesda regarding the ‘Blu-ray churning’ issue, as described by John Carmack from id Software at Quakecon. John had said,
Once you get everything from memory that works pretty good, but if you’re coming straight from the hard drive then the first time you walk into everything from the DVD or from the Blu-ray – even worse in terms of total latency time – you listen to that Blu-ray churning around as its pulling everything in.
Bethesda’s marketing chief, Pete Hines, has countered John’s comment by saying,
We had Rage running on PS3 in the press room [at QuakeCon] for folks to do their previews. We are very pleased with the PS3 version of RAGE. One of the cornerstones of the new idTech5 technology is that all assets are identical across all platforms. The experience that players have will be the same on all three platforms.
A cynic could point out that ‘assets’ could refer to sound files, models and textures which are obviously shared between all versions of the game and that ‘the experience’ means absolutely nothing at all and is just PR speak, and that Mr. Hines has just fed Destructoid some poetic prose.
However I’m in a good mood (not having your neighbourhood firebombed has that effect) so it’s a big hurrah from me, they’ve fixed the texture pop up in Rage!
Source: Destructoid
iAvernus
I’m fortunate enough to have both consoles. I’m hoping the PS3 really is the same, as I MUCH rather play it there.
Broonba
Will be getting this day one regardless of any negative comments/publicity, as i’ve had my eye on it for ages.
Both Fallouts on PS3 weren’t exactly perfect in regards to running properly, but i still enjoyed every minute of them.
Severn2j
If all three are identical, I can see a lot of PC owners are gonna be miffed..
Gadbury
Most anticipated game for me.
Also, did they fix the texture pop-in? I thought Carmack said in his Keynote that it’s just the way the tech works (referring to all platforms) and expects to get hit for that come the reviews.