I imported the original Fallouts because the Euro versions were pissed about with, plus FO1 took something like six months to finally appear this side of the Atlantic for no understandable reason.

*I’ve never killed a child in a Fallout but it being an option if I felt like it, with serious consequences, is far better than not having kids in the game at all.

As for the rest of them, I guess it’ll eventually come down to experience. Is it easier to develop using the better toolset and have a world of pain doing the port, or is better to take slightly less pain straight off the starting line and do an (apparently) easier 360 port later?

tbh, I expect the final answer will be ‘none of the above’. They’ll just start developing for ‘nothing in particular’ and all versions will become ports of a generic starting point. That’s certainly how we develop the same thing for two different targets here at work.

Not only does it show a shift in the balance of power between the two, it also shows that as far as the development world is concerned the 360 ’seems’ to be the more dev friendly, which also has connotations.

Also, with talk of the PS3 winning by a country mile by the end of the gen (and even by 2009 according to some analysts) the fact that devs aren’t really taking note and using the 360 as lead negates that assumption somewhat.

Very few games are multi-dev’ed and I can’t think of one multi-plat title where the PS3 is the lead and the port is to the 360. That obviously means that as far as comparisons are concerned, the 360 version of any said title is much more likely to run better.

That’s why I think it’s significant anyway.

But wtf do I know?