Assassin's Creed having development issues

360 News | 360 DVD not big enough; PS3 memory causing problems.

In an interview with Pro-G, the game's creative director, Patrice Desilets, talked about the current challenges with fitting the hotly anticipated game Assassin's Creed onto an Xbox 360 DVD disc, compared to the Blu-ray version of the game which fits just fine.

On the other side of the tracks, he said that the team is having some bigger issues with the PlayStation 3 because of specific memory problems on the console.

"Both have their own challenges. Right now we have a big challenge on the 360 to make it fit on a DVD, to put five languages, to put all the data on eight gigs. On the Blu-ray side we're really good, but then the memory is quite different. How we handle memory is really different between the two machines and we're struggling right now on the PS3." says Desilets.

"We have people who are really dedicated and we're having help from Microsoft on one side and Sony on the other side to have the same quality on both systems. It really depends on the week basically as to who's best."

All issues should be sorted out in time for the game's release in November, when you can decide for yourself which version of the game is better. If you're into that sort of thing.

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31 Comments

Klawrence

2 years ago

Luke Mitchell wrote

Assassin's Creed having development issues by Luke

PALGN News: 360 DVD not big enough; PS3 memory causing problems.

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Stupid French N00bs. First Demo's are to hard to make and now its seems for Ubisoft at least, games are too.

emech

2 years ago

So, ditch the "five languages" and release the US english one here in a PAL format....there is some space saved and a quicker release date.......

IISpacebreakII

2 years ago

I wonder whats the specifics are about the memory issues, never heard of such a PS3 problem.

Aslong as the game ends up good and the PS3 version well, no complaints.

RAMPAGE

2 years ago

Wouldnt suprise me if the game gets delayed.

arbok

2 years ago

RAMPAGE wrote

Wouldnt suprise me if the game gets delayed.

Agreed. The game should be finished by now rather than ironing out issues like this. I see this game getting delayed as well or released rushed.

Sin Ogaris

2 years ago

Looks like there's trouble in paradise. I guess even with the next gen these developer's eyes are too big for their belly.

mipac

2 years ago

If the 360 is having problems with fitting games on a dvd now, where will it be in 24 months. Im not upgrading my 360 or PS3 to a new console generation before 2012, no matter what they release.

john_solids

2 years ago

mipac wrote

If the 360 is having problems with fitting games on a dvd now, where will it be in 24 months. Im not upgrading my 360 or PS3 to a new console generation before 2012, no matter what they release.

thats what i have been wondering since day one. guess they will just have to use multiple discs for the big games. not sure what the go is with the ps3 tho thought that should of been sweet. sure they will work it out tho.

genxevo

2 years ago

yeah it'll just be multible discs (blue dragon was like 3 discs.. suprised the hell outta me)

mipac

2 years ago

They cant use multiple discs, its free roaming between the cities.

Gutsman Heavy

2 years ago

if Oblivion can fit, anything can

well obviously not, but it crammed a hell of a lot in

Annihilation

2 years ago

certain languages on different disks

Xbox 360 has 512MB RAM shared for system and graphics

PlayStation 3 has 256MB for system and 256MB for graphics, not as varied as the x360

Sin Ogaris

2 years ago

Gee, why don't they make two versions of the game? You know, alter the game for the different consoles like every other game developer does.

Oh, and if this thing struggles with DVD's, how freaking big is the install going to be on my PC?

Passa

2 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

Oh, and if this thing struggles with DVD's, how freaking big is the install going to be on my PC?

I've always wondered that. Everyone is going 'oh look, 360 is screwed, no Blu-Ray', but PC games are fine. Of course I might be wrong, Assassin's Creed might have spilled out onto a second disc, which would suck.

The Brett

2 years ago

Gutsman Heavy wrote

if Oblivion can fit, anything can

well obviously not, but it crammed a hell of a lot in

Yeah, but as production values on games increase, there will be an expectation of larger game worlds, better textures, better draw distances and variety in terms of things like terrain. You don't have to convince me that Oblivion looks awesome- it's one of my favourite games ever, but the fact is that games get better looking over time and Oblivion has quite a few obvious deficiencies.

Infested Jibbs

2 years ago

I don't think Palgn got quite the all out flame war they were punting for when they put this article up.

Oh well, beter luck next time boys

Luke Mitchell

2 years ago

No flame war intended guys, but Assassin's Creed is obviously a hugely anticipated game, so any news on it's development is interesting, whether it be on 360 or PS3. The fact that both are having problems makes it less material for a flame war than if we just reported on say, the 360 issues or PS3 issues alone.

Nev

2 years ago

Luke Mitchell wrote

The fact that both are having problems makes it less material for a flame war than if we just reported on say, the 360 issues or PS3 issues alone.

Plus the fact that Ubisoft were very careful to do the same. I can imagine them getting more than a few harsh words if someone in the development team was bad-mouthing one of the two companies' systems. Even EA had to be diplomatic about the PS3 version of Madden running at 30fps on the PS3 with a kind of "Our bad. We understand if you don't want to get it, no biggie" disclaimer.

TheAnswer

2 years ago

RAMPAGE wrote

Wouldnt suprise me if the game gets delayed.

You mean further delayed? Assassins Creed was originally slated for release in February 2007, I remember heaps of people going crazy pre-ordering it over at play-asia as they were offering the collectors edition which comes with a 12" figure for something like US$59.95. Then the game got delayed with a TBA time frame and the people who pre-ordered would've had to wait longer

onggie

2 years ago

On a side note has anyone watched the 8 minute video that was on Digg?

click here

Game looks bloody fantastic, till you watch the fight. Man the guards just stand there. WTF!

LeonJ

2 years ago

This is truely the curse of multiplatform development. I wish this was a PS3 exclusive (because that's where it seems to have started development). I have a feeling that it will be buggy and have framerate issues.

Still, it's on my must buy list ATM.

Annihilation

2 years ago

will be my next title on x360

just have to decide which 2 play first, this or Crysis...

... the reason why i spent $4k on my computer =/

Sin Ogaris

2 years ago

Why don't you get it for computer then? It's going to look a damn sight better, and run like a charm (considering you forked out so much). Add that all to the fact that you'll get it 20 bucks cheaper on PC and there's really no reason why you wouldn't.

Passa

2 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

Its coming out on PC in 2008.

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