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No, Ubisoft, the PS3 CAN handle the AI.

by Nick Haywood on 15 August 2007, 08:57

Tags: PlayStation 3, Sony Computers Entertainment Europe (NYSE:SNE), PS3

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Look at Heavenly Sword says Karraker

One of Sony’s top bods, David Karraker, has chipped in his tuppence over on the PlayStation Blog answering claims by an Ubisoft developer that the PS3 can’t handle multiple AIs.

In response to previously reported claims over Splinter Cell: Conviction, Karraker cites Heavenly Sword as being a prime example of the CELL chip handling AI for hundreds of enemies at once.

So who’s right? Well, we just don’t know. Certainly, Sony are throwing a lot of weight behind Heavenly Sword which is clearly a PS3 showcase game. To be honest, it’ll probably just level itself out in the end and for sure, as developers get to grips with the coding on PS3, we should start to see bigger and better stuff in the future.

Or is that just the eternal optimist in me?



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Hmm… who would I listen to here?

Ubisoft developer who ACTUALLY programs/develops games for various platforms and have probably done so for a few years.

Or…

A Sony Employee who probably saw the sales figures are low and thought they need to limit damage control over this?
complex AI is a massive number of branches - i.e. “if foo then bar” type code. the cell is dreadful at branched code. there's a fair difference between splinter cell's “intelligent” enemy agent type people, and heavenly sword's cookie-cutter cannon fodder
Cheers for the link - went to the beginning of the thread and interesting stuff……

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/08/13/ps3-stress-test/

“”A lot of noise has been made recently about the reliability issues of one of our competitor’s systems. So, not surprisingly, some of our more ambitious PlayStation faithfuls decided to run their own stress test on the PlayStation 3. They put it in a freezer at zero degrees for up to 108 hours and they put it in a sauna at 120 degrees for up to 64 hours — all the while running games and Blu-ray Disc movies on it. Did it fail? Nope. Like the Energizer Bunny, it kept going and going and going. Probably not something you want to try at home, but our thanks to the guys at PS3 Vault for putting our system through the ringer" :)
Whats this got to do with whether the AI can be coded effectively tho Barrichello?.

TiG
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Whats this got to do with whether the AI can be coded effectively tho Barrichello?.

TiG

I think he's having a cryptic dig at the xbox 360 thermal problems ;)