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Why is the PS2 so hard to make games for?

>> No.10469198

>>10469184
Shit tier architecture

>> No.10469207

>>10469184
10 processors

>> No.10469262

>>10469184
because the whole time you're making the games, you're distracted by the fact you could just be playing them instead

>> No.10469264

It can't be that hard, since it has more games than all of its competitors combined.

>> No.10469378

>>10469264
It was harder but devs did it anyway because it's worth it when the console has 7x the install base of the shitcube

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>>10469207

>> No.10469435

>>10469184
Dual core shitty cpu
>but is 128 bit
Not really they stuck 2 64 bit cpu for 128 bit which made things harder,add to that less ram and you get why.
This is how it was the ammount of ram.
>gamecube first
>dreamcast second
>xbox third
>ps2 in last place

>> No.10469468

>>10469184
>present tense

>> No.10469621

>>10469184
every developer came from psx and pc.

>> No.10469623

how difficult would it be to make PS2 game today?

>> No.10469995

>>10469623
considering mario 64 was ported in a day probably not hard.

>> No.10470023

>>10469264
It has also more games than the PS3 and PS5 combined

>> No.10470054

>>10469184
It is recorded that 4376 games were released for the PS2, if it had been easier to develop for, then there could easily have been over 10k games for it. We, as the gaming public, were robbed. That's over 6000 games that were killed in the womb due to unnecessary complexities in the PS2 architecture.

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>>10469435

>> No.10470126

>>10470054
>Jap-only trash
>we

>> No.10470262

>>10469184
can't believe I stomped on and threw away that beautiful blue box :((

>> No.10470281

>>10469184
Like every sony console, they prioritize movies, then licensed music, then gameplay, in that order.

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>>10469184
You can make a shitty game pretty easily for the PS2. You can ignore a lot of the hardware or use it suboptimally. The game will look terrible, but work.

To actually maximise the potential of the hardware you have to juggle a lot of concerns in parallel.