i hate bees said:
I'm not overreacting, I'm saying it's an entirely meaningless comment.
Saying it's meaningless IS overreacting. To say that a developer's estimation of how much they got out of a fixed hardware platform on a game they spent more than 2 years developing is completely meaningless, well, that's not only overreacting, that's calling the devs in question a bunch of complete hacks to suggest that after all that time they wouldn't be able to quantify the finite power of the platform and their utilization of it in some meaningful fashion.
Uncharted uses 100% of the PS3s power, if on their next title they've optimised their engine and got stuff running better then more power to them, but to claim developers are using 30 or 40% of the PS3s maximum potential is arbitrary and meaningless.
First, he didn't claim developers plural are getting 30-40% of the PS3s max potential, he was only speaking for Naughty Dog and their first effort on the platform.
Second, to sit there and claim that every game they produce for the platform utilizes 100% of the platform's power - no matter how much they optimize and manage to include more advanced and more complex game code, assets and so forth - is far more arbitrary than making a rough estimate of what % power was used. You're changing the definition of 100% from game to game, literally moving the goalposts, and you're bitching about how arbitrary a claim like 30-40% is?!?
It's not arbitrary just because you don't have a clue or a frame of reference as to what it means. It may be meaningless
to you but anyone who has a modicum of knowledge about game development can appreciate it for what it is without calling it completely meaningless.
You guys are so shellshocked from the wages of console war that you can't even allow a developer a simple measure of overall hardware utilization. It's ridiculous.