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Xbox 360 beating PS3… in sales and performance
Don’t believe the lies. Sony’s overpriced and hard to find Playstation 3 is currently being trounced by the Xbox 360… and I’m not just talking about sales figures. No, I’m talking about graphics quality and performance. Gamespot has posted an article comparing eight different games that are available on both systems, and their findings were, for the most part, the same across the board:
The Xbox 360 had better graphics in almost all the games we examined. The 360’s biggest victories were in Madden 07 and Fight Night Round 3, where the differences in texture detail and lighting stood out in our comparison shots. We couldn’t capture this in the screenshots, but the Xbox 360 games generally offered better framerates too.
Hmm… where have we seen this before? Oh, that’s right: the Playstation 2, that oh-so-amazing system that was supposed to be able to render Toy Story-like graphics in real-time; that system that was so powerful that Saddam Hussein would be able to power his nuclear warheads with it (Saddam with nuclear weapons - there’s another myth busted)… when in fact it struggled to outdo the older Dreamcast. Seriously, Sony, we’re sick of your lies, and it looks like people may finally be starting to cotton on to the fact that all your grand claims are nothing but empty promises. You see, folks? If you want to play boring excrement-coloured action games and painfully photo-realistic sports sims (not to mention watch HD movies), you can get all that on the 360, with the benefit of them running faster and looking (comparatively) better.
Of course, it goes without saying that, as a new device, it will take some time for programmers to be able to extract the full potential of the PS3. Even so, however, it’s pretty damning that, even at this stage in its life, a machine that was touted as the be-all and end-all of console gaming technology is struggling to keep up with a system a year older than it.
Oh, and in other news, yet another formerly pro-Blu-ray analyst is now predicting HD DVD to win the high definition format war.
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Posted: Thursday, December 07, 2006 at 11:40 AM
| Comments: 3
Categories: Blu-ray
| Games
| HD DVD
| Technology
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http://dpad.gotfrag.com/portal/story/35372/?spage=1
here is a more in-depth technical comparison that corroborates gamespot's critique. Basically the 360's GPU(Xenos) is half a generation a head of PS3's(RSX). Though PS3's cell processor boasts great specs, its actually a huge hassle for developers to use. BD's influence is negliglble. 360's 12x CD drive is much much faster than PS3's 4x BD drive. And a great number of former PS exclusive games have announced same day releases on the 360 - the much anticipated "Assasin's Creed" for example.
I picked up a 360 two weeks ago, but will return it tomorrow because the fun factor is just not there(IMO). My SNES and Dreamcast trounces it in that dept. Posted by: , December 7, 2006 8:31 PM
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Yeah, nothing on the 360 or PS3 really excites me at all - not much on the PC either, come to mention it. Developers are continually pushing graphics to the next level, but gameplay seems to have got left behind as usual. Posted by: Whiggles, December 7, 2006 8:48 PM
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Being a tech-addicted, the PS3 vs 360 (vs Wii) spec wars cannot fail to entice me :)
Anyway, to add to the more general HD-DVD vs. BR argument, here in Italy things seem already decided, and the winner will be BR. The most reliable and unbiased video magazine down here stated and summarized it quite clearly on their latest (November) issue I've just finished to read. Simply, this side of Mediterranean sea, Sony (& partners) marketing power and retailers-friendliness are just too much for Toshiba. Major retailers will sell and promote BR, and that's about it.
Just think: at a major event held in Venice, significantly titled "Future of Home entertainment: between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray", Toshiba and other hddvd Italian representatives failed to show up. This was largely criticized by the magazine director, who received lame justifications for that by the event organization. Sad.
Obviously if in the rest of the world things go differently, even Italian retailers will support HD-DVD, but not in the near future. Posted by: MCP, December 8, 2006 6:13 PM
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