Norrath says:

We defintiely feel next-gen technology aided truly in our development process. You know---you have complexer AI, you have more characters to work with, an enhanced ability to work with the animations on a higher scale--all that stuff. The only difference between the 360 and PS3--which both as a collective helped us develop The Orange Box is definitely there. For the 360 version of the game, we can probably say we are using around 93-94% of the console's power given our current optimization. With the PS3, we can't exactly say what power cap we reached, since no developer really knows where the boundary is for the PS3. We can tell you that in terms of the whole game together on the PS3, we are not even using the SPU's and it is purely built on the graphics card and Cell. We're still optimizing for PS3 more because we can, which can explain the slight delay to you. But no worries, everything is going smoothly to put down any rumors.

www.psu.com/

Let the flaming begin!

4 days ago Sydney

H4mmersmit says:

Lol i forsee a load of 360s blowing up and being sent back for repair hahaha! It's awesome how they dont know the boundary of the ps3 yet, makes it sound almighty hahaha

4 days ago Launceston, Tasmania

Norrath says:

Yeah it's pretty insane and this is a game that run fine on my old comp which has 1gig and a geforce 6600 and I get 40fps,

4 days ago Sydney

H4mmersmit says:

Norrath said: Yeah it's pretty insane and this is a game that run fine on my old comp which has 1gig and a geforce 6600 and I get 40fps,

4 days ago Launceston, Tasmania

Vinzor says:

yeah, you don't

it's just i have a bomby 5 year computer?
xD

4 days ago [[PS3 Network ID - krazyvinny] [MSN - v_kakaroto[AT]hotmail.com]] -- Vinzor said: rofl no idea why i'm saying this but, i'd sooo turn gay for cloud :P -- BrisVegas

RerunWii says:

I doubt the validity of this article as I've personally seen the game run on a 360 and it dosn't cause any more heat or have any slowdown at all. Plus it's a Playstation site.

4 days ago The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane

longarms says:  

i think it probably true. that’s because the console versions of HL2 and episode 1 have been re-skinned with higher rez assets and are now using the updated episode 2 version of the source engine so both episode 1 and half life 2 now have full high dynamic range lighting and real time soft shadows.

so when you chuck all that in you need a much more powerful machine to run it.(it looks like they will be giving PC players the option to update their versions of half life 2 and episode 1 to include these features also.)

4 days ago Central Coast (NSW)

Natty_P says:

H4mmersmit said: Lol i forsee a load of 360s blowing up and being sent back for repair hahaha! It's awesome how they dont know the boundary of the ps3 yet, makes it sound almighty hahaha

4 days ago dalby, Queensland