The idea seems pretty simple to me. Let's connect the Playstation Network (PSN) with the XBOX Live. Thus making me able to play ps3 games versus XBOX gamers. You don't have to make major changes in the psn or xboxlive to do this, just make the gaming servers availible for both networks. The games are, from a gameplay point of view, pretty much the same, so why not?
From a gameplay PoV, yes. From a designer, coder, and artist point of view, no. Plus, Sony. Proprietary as hell.
Besides, in the future, gamer consoles will be totally gone. Cause you can just use your livingroom TV and play games straight from the internet servers, no downloads necessary. It's still a bit into the future, but with 4G technology coming and later 5G, the possibilities are unfathomable.
I don't see why :s ok, I don't really know much about programming and such, but it doesn't seem so impossible
Superbowl: Let's use CoD2 Modern Warfare as an example, since it's available for all platforms. How do you know that it isn't already being done?
For the same reason that you can't pop StarCraft into your PS3 and have it run. Different coding, different OS, different hardware capabilities, even different file-formats. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for all gaming to be interconnected, but I just don't see it happening when there's such radical differences between the different venues.
Well, accually I was thinking of codmw2, and tis forum have yet not gotten me to realise/believe it's impossible. that's different, that's taking a PC-only game (yesyes, n64, but w/e) and putting it in a video-gaming console. can't they just put some effort in it?
http://playstation.joystiq.com/2009/02/26/watch-ps3-run-starcraft-with-help-from-linux-and-windows/ GG
it's certainly not impossible, as long as the game is designed properly. as long as the data being sent over the network is identical (i.e. things like player position, projectiles being shot, etc.) then both versions can still work with each other. the PS3 game doesn't have to be able to run the xbox360's code entirely, just interpret the network data.
