Either something funny's going on at hardware news site Anandtech or I'm worse at using search engines than I thought. Several videogame news sources are 'linking' to an article on the site in which a selection of game developers have apparently expressed their disappointment with the Xbox 360 and PS3 hardware.
A post on Evil Avitar for example, runs a quotation from the piece:
"Both consoles are marketed to be much more powerful than they actually are, and from talking to numerous game developers it seems that the real world performance of these platforms isn't anywhere near what it was supposed to be."
...before adding an editorial interpretation:
Developers seem to be happy with the GPU performance in both consoles but extremely disappointed in the CPU performance. The Xbox 360 CPU is quoted as being only twice as powerful as the Xbox CPU in real world performance.
Slashdot also referenced the piece yesterday.
So where is it?
I think I briefly found the article this morning, but got sidetracked, closed my browser, then came back later and couldn't find it again. Searches for Xbox 360 and PS3 come up with older stories.
Is this routine maintenance or has some pressure been applied somewhere? Or am I just being daft? Looks like a very interesting piece nonetheless.
Update: Goggle Groups still has a copy of the article right here. Thanks to The Rev for tracking it down (and to everyone else for trying).
