Bethesda Much More Comfortable Working on Consoles When Developing Skyrim
There’s no denying that past Bethesda games have been a bit rough around the edges on the PlayStation 3. Fortunately, the developer has assured gamers that, this time around, they’ve acquired enough experience developing for Sony’s platform that the console versions of Skyrim will run quite smoothly.
Speaking to Edge in a recent interview, Elder Scrolls V director Todd Howard, shared the team’s progress in developing for the 360 and PS3, explaining how they’ve come a long way since the development days of Oblivion. He even goes as far as siting the benefits to developing for consoles versus PC.
The negative on PC is that there are still a lot of layers of API before you can look at the hardware. So we might be able to get the data faster on PC, but what we do with that data is still easier on 360 and PS3 where we can look directly at the memory registers and do what we want.
This is our third go around on these systems, so we are a lot more comfortable than we used to be.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will arrive on store shelves November 11th.
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5 Responses to “Bethesda Much More Comfortable Working on Consoles When Developing Skyrim”
don’t they really mean 360.Who are they kidding.It smells like a shoddy port on the ps3 already
I would like to believe this……
And, I will happily test it out with my PS3 for everyone
that sux reading articles like this make me not want to put my money down for this game
When they open there mouths and say shit like that, makes me want to pre order. Maybe thats why they are doing this. Bethesda to me is almost on the level as Rockstar graphically. So I might not pre order but you win a bet, betting on my by this game in the long run. AND NEW BY THE WAY. People buy new, shut down gamestop unless your buy xbox shit.
I’ll be getting it for the 360, the system it was developed for