Developer: EA Redwood Shores
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Genre: Shooter
Sub-Genre: Third Person Shooter
Release Date: Oct 31st, 2008
Additonal Info: Also available on PC and Xbo...
Developer: Day 1 Studios
Publisher: LucasArts Entertainment
Genre: Shooter
Sub-Genre: Third Person Shooter
Release Date: October 2008
Additonal Info: Also available on Xbox 360
Developer: Redstorm Entertainment / Ubisoft Paris
Publisher: Ubisoft
Genre: Shooter
Sub-Genre: Third Person Shooter
Release Date: August 21st, 2007
Additonal Info:
Dead Space is Electronic Arts’ first foray into the survival-horror genre as the company tries something new besides the slew of movie licensed games and sports titles. In Dead Space, players take control of Isaac Clarke, an engineer who is sent on a search and rescue mission. What he finds out on this venture will be more than he can comprehend on many levels.
With an expected release date of late 2008, Electronic Arts is deep into the development process, ensuring that their first horror experience is a long-lasting and fearful one. It is not like they will have another chance at making a first appearance so Dead Space must be dead on. With the focus being on development, Electronic Arts has came out to confirm that the Xbox 360 is indeed the lead platform of development and that in a month or two, will switch to the PS3. Please do not be alarmed by this and believe that the PS3 version will be technologically inferior to the 360 version, because as Executive Producer, Chad Schofield explains, there is nothing to worry about.
"Right now we're leading and building and doing everything on the 360. Pretty soon in a month or two we will switch and lead on the PS3. That is so that you're not downgrading the PS3 later. We're putting all our engineering muscle into making the PS3 great, and then we'll know that the 360 will be great.
"The plan has to be, and it will be, on parity with the 360. Sony has seen the game so they know that that's what they want out of us. But I can absolutely assure you that the PS3 and the 360 will be the same. We're not going to gimp the 360 because the PS3 can't do it. We're going to optimise the crap out of it and make the PS3 really good, sort of like Burnout."
Remember, Electronic Arts holds the best regards for the PlayStation 3 as earlier this month, EA said the PS3 will outsell the 360 in 2008.
Source

Dead Space Dev Diary
hmmm interesting
when looking at the pictures it reminded me of halo=) the big in the armor suit , batles on the space staion things, the monster look very like the flood from halo 2 and 3, the gun he has is almost a carbon copy to the plasma rifle
"We're not going to gimp the 360 because the PS3 can't do it. "
Doesn't that seem backwards? He is making it sound as if they can't get too advanced on the 360 version because then the PS3 couldn't keep up. I certainly don't think that is the case! Am I missing something here?
EA why don't you get both PS3 and 360 versions up to par and release them at the same time. I am getting tired of these so called delays.
why didnt they just start development on ps3 they dont make any sense and have no idea what they are doing i think they need to start listening to their fellow developers
So they backdoor insult the PS3? " You suck, but we love you." is what they really said. It's all good though. By this time next year the PS3 will have sold more than the 360. The EA will be on its knees blowing Sony and the PS3. In the meentime though I wont be buying anything from them.
First off. In terms of being "On Par" and them being proud of it, they should be doing no less than trying to give every gamer teh best expereince possible, no matter what the platform. Thus the "Oh we're going to make both versions awesome" really shouldn't exist eh? When did developers pride themselves on making games work properly on multiplatform!?
Also, he says it'll be on Par for each system like burnout was... and I'm pretty sure that burnout runs better on the PS3... or atleast thats what I hear from reviews and D.Jaffe.
psn id: gingo.... i've heard this all before i will wait till i see a finished product and hear reviews before i believe this crap from EA
i bet anyone here 10 bux that it will be worse. for some CRAZY reason i bet it will
I also am stunned, by his statement, "We're not going to gimp the 360 version because the PS3 can't do it."
Is he smoking something? Is he M$ blowing the crap out of him? The PS3 is MUCH more powerful than the 360, hands down.
I'm sick of hearing of Developers saying that the PS3 version will be "On par" with the 360 version. I want to hear that the PS3 version will be Superior!
As long as the keep Army of Two on par with the 360.
in other words, we're going to screw the ps3 owners
tsk tsk, the messed up comments from EA keep coming
Here we go again...360 vs PS3. I'm concerned why 360 to PS3 ports are so poor on the PS3, but the reverse isn't true (ie Assasins Creed)- maybe it's only graphically, with the Xenon being a more advanced GPU than the RSX. But in game physics on the PS3 should be better (with 4 more functioning cores than 360) and I haven't witnessed this on ported games either.
Wont buy this then, EA are a bunch of you know whats!
"We're not going to gimp the 360 because the PS3 can't do it."
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
With the only exceptions for Burnout / Black (Criterion) and Skate. I hate EA
What he should have said was: "We're not going to gimp the 360 because we don't know how to do it on PS3"
PS3 IS the more powerful system - more cores, faster bus speeds etc. Remember, several 'AAA' titles on 360 aren't even in hi-def - they're upscaled. That tells you all you need to know about the raw power of the systems.
The fact that EA are taking so long to get up to speed, when smaller companies are working marvels.
What a dumb ass, PS3 is more powerful than 360 so they should start out on the PS3 then down grade to the 360. All you have to do is look at first party games on PS3 and see that the 360 couldn't even handle them let me name one game, Uncharted: Drakes Fortune.(Thats all I have to say)
Gee Wiz - you mean PS3 is as good as an xbox 360 now?
Or you mean almost?
Seriously Playstation is getting pissed on - this stinks.