Developer Neversoft just dropped online play support for the PlayStation 3's version of Tony Hawk's Project 8. Oh no...
Why? Neversoft recently received development kits for the PlayStation 3 and has not had the time to invest development hours in online play and qualify it by launch date. Sound familiar? Something similar seemed to be the case with some Xbox 360 launch titles. Kameo had no online play for months after release and Call of Duty 2 had online play that was crippled with issues.
This is not a new concept. Game developers require many hours in order to build an online play model or a game in general. The idea isn't just "magic" that goes *poof* and code appears ready and stable.
So why the hype at all? Historically, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 in October 2001 was the first game for the PlayStation 2 to offer online play. Now, five years later, they're not even going to have it. Lastly, Xbox 360's release of the same title will have eight player online multi-player support.
The developers do not yet have a clear direction has to how the PS3 online support is even going to work. They've got little support from the development side (for libraries and programming interfaces) so how would they even begin to think about online play? Very difficult. Question is, how are other third-party developers handling this situation? Perhaps this announcement will be first of many to come.
Why buy the PS3 title when the 360 will hold all the answers? Slightly better graphics (or we'd assume) or online play? You decide.
Thanks to Dsmooth for the information
Why? Neversoft recently received development kits for the PlayStation 3 and has not had the time to invest development hours in online play and qualify it by launch date. Sound familiar? Something similar seemed to be the case with some Xbox 360 launch titles. Kameo had no online play for months after release and Call of Duty 2 had online play that was crippled with issues.
This is not a new concept. Game developers require many hours in order to build an online play model or a game in general. The idea isn't just "magic" that goes *poof* and code appears ready and stable.
So why the hype at all? Historically, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 in October 2001 was the first game for the PlayStation 2 to offer online play. Now, five years later, they're not even going to have it. Lastly, Xbox 360's release of the same title will have eight player online multi-player support.
The developers do not yet have a clear direction has to how the PS3 online support is even going to work. They've got little support from the development side (for libraries and programming interfaces) so how would they even begin to think about online play? Very difficult. Question is, how are other third-party developers handling this situation? Perhaps this announcement will be first of many to come.
Why buy the PS3 title when the 360 will hold all the answers? Slightly better graphics (or we'd assume) or online play? You decide.
Thanks to Dsmooth for the information
