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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If they only released RDR on PS3, this explanation might make sense as the engine would be heavily optimised for PS3. But they also released on Xbox 360, which is the closest console platform to Windows in terms of architecture. It wouldn't have been that expensive to port.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think there must be a degree of truth to the spaghetti code backstory, otherwise Rockstar would've just ported it already and raked in the cash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The one thing that could cause serious porting pain would be the need to support high/variable frame rates. That could require a whole bunch of code to be refactored.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To windows, sure. But the 360 and PS3 have PowerPC processors while PCs and modern consoles have a very different architecture (x86). And porting to that is more effort.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That applies to all ports from PS3 then, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Of course. But usually you’re not porting 14 y/o spaghetti code