Xbox 360 Fanboy

Come on, it looks like the guys at 1Up.com have been paid by MS to publish this article. First, they are missing the point, both are next-gen consoles, so the first part of the article is misleading. Second, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg regarding the PS3 technical capabilities. Last, whereas for the PS3 this is the first batch of titles, for the 360 I suppose that developers are not doing their learning anymore, these are titles of second-gen for this console.

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luisfmar, you are cleary missing the point. 1up did it because Sony- more specifically Ken Kutaragi- has been proclaiming since the PS3 was unveiled that it would change gaming. He constantyl badmouthed MS, and even went so far as to say the PS3 would usher in 4D gaming. As we can see from the video, the difference is minimal. Even in a year, the difference won't be all that great, it won't be what Sony said.

I would go on to dissect your post, but you are cleary a Sony fanboy who got lost.

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Give PS3 a year and then compare what ever they have against GEARS OF WAR I doubt anything that is put out for the PS3 can beat it

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Let me also point out that according to Sony most of these titles were in development for the same amount of time as the 360 versions. After all, Sony insisted that the PS3 was ready and that game developers were ready in March 06, but that formalizing blu-ray standards was holding up release. This means that the PS3 launch titles had eight extra months of polish on them. It means that the online setup that the PS3 currently has is with an extra eight months of development, polishing, and QA.

Mind you, that's if you believed Sony on this claim. If so, I've got some ocean front property out here near Mojave you might be interested in buying.

Kalroy

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Almost all of these games I can't tell a single difference between the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. Fight Night, its very hard to really see the difference IMO.

But Sony has done nothing but lie about the Playstaion 3 and bash the heck out of the Xbox 360. Seems like they were just putting their foot in their mouth. Especally since most developers and experts agree that the Xbox 360's GPU is more powerful and it actually does have all the ram accessible to it instead of a 256MB chunk, and the Cell and Xenos are pretty on-par in real-world power(though the Cell seems more like a processor for media encoding/decoding than gaming, strangely enough). But all in all, the multiconsole games should look almost identical and there's going to be no real "power gap" like there was in the past generations.

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This is why I don't listen to any of SONY's hype any more. I learned this lesson with the PS2.

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PS3 had had a year more than 360 to polish up their launch title. What have they been doing all this time? We have to wait another year for them to be at Gears of War standard?
Fact is, by that time, 360 game developers would have surpassed GoW. Will the PS3 be playing catchup?

There is no excuse really for the PS3 to be having such minimal difference to its competition, when its has claimed that it is far superior.

Dont get me wrong, PS3 is a powerful console...but so is the 360.
If 360 was black and has the same bravado hype that ps3 had, everyone would be singing it praises as a behemoth of power too.

When the dust settles, I'm sure PS3 will have titles worthy of its claims. I look forward to that.

360s launch titles didn't show off its power, some month down the line we had GRAW and now a year later we have GoW. It has matured.

Sony could have used all that time to make launch titles that were equal to GoW...if not better. Instead they wasted time on PR faux pas and smack talking. Meanwhile developers where slowly distancing themselves from the drunken executives and moving over to the 360 camp.


360 can do more than GoW and so can the PS3. In the end, its all about the games, and this next gen it looks like an even playing field.


Gamer FTW!!

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"To be fair, these are all PS3 launch titles, but the differences in graphical fidelity are small at best." Exactly. As a friend of mine said, it really proves that Sony is indeed a year behind MS. His thinking, and I am inclined to agree, is that, with the year gap between the two console launches, if the PS3 is really everything Sony was promising, these games should look like GoW, launch title or not.

It raises quite a few questions, my two favorites being: If the PS3 is capable of more than the 360 (which personally I doubt) are developers ever going to be willing to jump through the hoops required to squeeze that extra performance, or can we expect cross platform titles to look identical on both systems? -and- As a gamer (note I said gamer, not movie watcher; I could care less what media my console uses as long as it loads games with decent speed) what makes this a $200 better game console?

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Am I the only one who thought that Fight Night looked like crap?

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I can't tell the difference on most of them. But in Need For Speed: Carbon, the PS3 version does look slightly better. You can see it raining, and there's a cool water droplets effect on the "camera."

Is that worth $200 more? Not to me.

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ps3 looks significantly darker...

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Well, a few of those titles (RR7, Full Auto 2, Blazing Angels) clearing are better (RR7 not so much). Fight Night R3 has a little bit better lighting. Full Auto 2 has HDR, much better/detailed backgrounds, motion blur/better sense of speed. Blazing Angels has HDR, isn't blurry, betting lighting/color & better models.

These games don't show anything between the consoles, but how pathetic some of those original games are and how much can be done in at most a year's development time. They also shouldn't have been included in this comparison.

Developers should be ashamed that they even put out games that looked that bad. Blazing Angles Xbox 360 was mostly an Xbox/PS2 port anyway. I really hate how ugly that fake 'HDR' (bloom lighting) & 'DoF' effects are on some Xbox 360 games that were developed using old techniques.

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If you truly wish to see which system is better check this link. In depth review of the hardware shows which is more powerful... hint, hint.

http://www.itvidya.com/playstation_3_vs_xbox_360

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No.

You missed the point. Sony promised something. Something completely unobtainable, yet we gave Sony the benefit of the doubt and waited to see what they brought.

And they bring...this.

This isn't about business. The people in game journalism are...gamers. They are angry with Sony too.

Just look at the polls in the article. 80% are saying, side by side, Sony is full of it. MS didn't have to lift a finger for this story. Sony did all the work...by talking on credit.

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What's with the fracking Tiger Woods game? Aren't there any better games to compare?

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"The Tiger Woods video probably provides the best the best comparison of all." the best the best TYPO. Just to point out :)

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The fact of the matter is that you can tell a difference. It may be a "slight" difference, but the point is that it is slightly better in favor of the PS3. First off, I own both systems, so let's skip the fanboy comments. I love both, possibly XBL wins me over in some ways.
The point is, that a lot of these games on PS3, look just a bit better, and 360 has had a year head start.
I think this justifies asking the question if first gen PS3 games look "slightly" better, will they look "a lot" better in a years time?

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Tell a difference? How could anyone see a difference of two games from some crappy streamed video? These games were meant to be pumped out of HDTVs, not slowly streamed down the 'tubes'. I never understood how people could make a decision based on videos like this. It's like watching a commercial for a TV on your TV. They claim to show you vibrant colors, and real life picture, when you're watching it on your own TV!
So maybe Sony lied. PS3 is just an X360 with a build in ability to watch HD movies. Plain and simple. Oh, and add in the cost of the 360's 'wireless connector' and suddenly the PS3 is cheaper.
The console wars are a marathon, not a 100yd dash. Everyone needs to just just complaining about who's better than who.

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The site has high-resolution versions of the video available to download for a better comparison.

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Plus Microsoft is banking on the last generation to repaeat its self. 3rd party developers are not going to put the extra effort to squeeze any advantages the PS3 has. All multi platform games are going to need a hardcore gamer to tell the difference. With the cost of making games going up I think the days of 3rd party exclusives are over.

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