Videogamer: Lost Planet: Xbox 360 Vs PlayStation 3

Videogamer writes:

"Lost Planet is a game we've all played a fair bit of here at VideoGamer.com. Despite its annoying problems, the Xbox 360 game sports brilliant visuals and some rock-hard old-skool gameplay that make it well worth owning, especially if you have a soft spot for giant bugs. PS3 owners have had to wait a long time for their chance to play in the snow, but has it been worth it? Read on for our verdict on which console version of Lost Planet is the one to buy."

[weazle]

Does anybody really care about this game or its comparisons? This is one game that is definitely not on the top of my list of must buys anyway.

[decapitator]

Another one of these things...seriously is anyone interested in this title anymore ? After it been on 360 and later on PC and now PS3 owners get the leftover ? I would feel offended this happened to me.

As having played the PC version and as a proud PS3 owner, I will gladly not give a ***** about this game. Thank You.

[SUP3R]

I don't care about this game, but from the comparison video, Capcom clearly gave the PS3 version a good finger up the a$$.
Do they really even care about the PS3? Why did they waste their time?
I wasn't planning on buying it, but I might have changed my mind. After watching that video I'm definitely not buying it unless they release a patch.

[decapitator]

Well they care when PS2 was king, but it seems things have changed quiet a bit. First stab was DMC4 going multi but then again it made a lot of sense from a business stand point. But am not getting it again when I played it on PC and tried a 360 version.

[Megaton]

Don't care about this game at all really, since it's just not good. Ranks up among the worst character controls I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with. The mere act or turning your character is a slow and sluggish hassle. You'd think that after so many years in the industry, Capcom would be able to avoid something so fundamentally terrible.

Turd vs. Turd: Which one smells less offensive?

[Greysturm]

Still there are arcade 360s or people that dont have an internet connection

[wow4u]

Funny, that video makes me more interested in the game now than before.

Oh, what do the metacritic reviewers say?

Xbox 360 Lost Planet: 79 / 100
PS3 Lost Planet: 76 / 100

[Chaos Striker]

It appears that you let Metacritics dictate everything that you decide on. What's next? Will it tell you whether pizza is rated higher than hamburgers? Your argument is limited by your blind enthusiasm for one measly statistics and not taking into account many other views. But then again, whatever makes sleep at night eh?

[Bazookajoe_83]

Or have i seen it somewere else..

[toughNAME]

2 separate games have been proved better on the 360 TODAY

[Greysturm]

Not that it makes any difference though. The only reason to get the ps3 version of lost planet is if you dont have anything to play or wanna see what the dlc was all about

[Kleptic]

ToughName, you didn't seriously just refer to the 360 version of Denied Ops as 'better' did you?...so the horrid graphics are only slightly less horrible on the 360...and it still ranks as one of the ugliest games of this generation...kind of funny how 1up is the only crap site to actually try to throw that around...not one other site mentioned the differences...only that the game was not worth a single persons time...I figured 1up was above that, but whatever...

[caffman]

just to let you know the article was wrong in one big respect. You don't have to pay anything for the DLC on lost planet since about june last year

[wow4u]

@2.1
@2.3

What is your point? Toughname is right, we see (again for the seemingly 100th time) that when all things are equal (ie, the same game in two places) the Xbox 360 version comes out on top.

This is confirmed by not just subjective opinions on graphics, but average review scores.

The trend is clear and damning. Stop dismissing the situation simply because it suits your world-view. This is the gamer-zone, at least try and pretend to have a neutral manner.

This is Yet Another demonstration of the trusim: Multiplatform games are better on Xbox 360 than the PS3.

By every objective measure, that is accurate.

[Chaos Striker]

I hope you mean objective opinions because otherwise your argument again fails. And your are a hypocrite because you are telling other people to stay neutral while you yourself are making extremely one sided statements.

In regards to the article, I really could care less about this comparison because this game is somewhat interesting and I shall look into it further after I purchase some other games that are on my radar.

[scrillakiller]

dnt care im still buying it

[Truplaya]

Bad comparison to do. Do they take into account the price difference? The 360 version could be picked up for half the price of the PS3 version now, and after reading the article it seems the 360 version is still better.

[Animal Mutha 76]

I think the point here folks is that a year old game on the 360 still looks better than a 'newer' port on PS3 which is 100% reason not to buy it. If the devs can't be bothered when why should we bother to buy it?

It just shows what happens when devs lazy port over. If they don't optimise for the system then it might as well be running as a 360 emulation on the PS3 and this will not play to any strengths the Cell/RSX combo might have.

[wow4u]

That is one interesting work of fiction you have there.

Firstly, this is a port not an emulated game (my god, how ridiculous bwahaha). The PS3 isnt capable of emulating a PS2 let alone an Xbox 360.

Even on 1st party titles, there hasnt been any demonstration that the CELL has any worthwhile benefit unless it is used to compensate for the memory or GPU shortcomings.

This compensation isnt a question of "lazyness" but of economics. And, if the Development Team has to spend $$$ to overcome the PS3 design only to deliver a version that is LESS than equal to Xbox 360, it is money wasted isnt it?

More effort for less no results. The fundemental design decisions that Sony made on the PS3 shouldnt be a zero-gain situation for developers.

Yet, time and time again, it is demonstrated to be the case.

[Keyser]

this game was not done correclty on the PS3. It would need to be built from the ground up to take advantage of the PS3's ability.

This is another (100th time) display of what happens when you develop on the 360 and port to the PS3. It's not that it can't be done it's that the results are always poor.

These poor results doesn't mean that the PS3 is bad or that the 360 is bad it means this is the wrong process if they want want to get GOOD results. If they are fine with poor results I'm sure the PS3 fans will show them with their wallets that this is unacceptable.

[Anon1974]

Are you kidding me! A game, made for the 360, ported over to the PS3, and not as good as the console it was designed on?!!
Seriously, this shouldn't surprise anyone. I think a 360 game that's ported over to the PS3 without any issues is a surprise, but that's a no brainer. Of course the game is going to run best on the system it was designed on. As developers continue to switch to the PS3 as lead platform, this problem will go away.

[Dareaver1]

in the ps2 vs xbox time period, that was never the case. The xbox always improved a ps2 port. it's just that now i guess these two consoles are so different as far as going in a specific direction that there is nothing they can do. i find it strange. M$'s curse is that the 360 is too easy to develop for, so now Sony's console is going to take lead development. Which can still delay games, because the PS3 learning curve is still steep. So i think that would still have a negative affect on games being released.

But i guess if that's the best way to make a more even multi-plat title, then do it. I would never want PS3 owners to get a bad port of a game that's awesome. I personally liked Lost Planet, i have the collectors edition, and it was hard enough that you felt a sense of accomplishment when you beat it.

I say try the game out, it's worth the shot, and if you have a friend with a 360, rent the game and go over their house if the framerate issue is really that bad on PS3. The game is pretty good.

[Kleptic]

Dareaver1...its getting wildly different from last generation though...

last gen...it was mostly Ram that made the difference between the PS2 and Xbox...the Xbox was more powerful in every way, but the Ram made the most immediate difference to developers...that was why multiplatform titles almost always were better on the Xbox...it was easy to put better looking textures, push more polygons, and have larger draw distances on the Xbox with relatively little work...but its worth noting that multiplatform titles, while still looking marginally better on the Xbox, where garbage compared to some of the exclusives...

the 360 and PS3 are totally different though...the PS3 is equal (or currently a little weaker because of the OS footprint) to the 360 in terms of available memory...you can argue day and night about each systems GPU...but the reality is that they are very similar, edging each other out in certain areas...the single srength that the PS3 has on the 360 is processing power though...which it has in spades...

but a lot of current games are not dealing with huge amounts of needed processing power...Lost Planet sure doesn't need it...pretty much any title making its way to the 360 also isn't focusing on taking advantages of any of the extra processing power the Ps3...add on to that that you need to radically change the code of the 360 game to get the Cell to handle it the same way...which is extremely time consuming and expensive...

I am not dropping the wait and see line anymore...there are games coming in the next few months that will show a lot of each systems respective powers...but in the end...the main reason behind this is that the 360 ended up being more powerful than MS ever really hyped it to be...and the PS3, currently, hasn't lived up to what Sony said it would be...but with the likes of KZ2, MGS4, and GT5 showing off some unmatched visuals...that may not be the case for a whole lot longer...

[wow4u]

@6.1

"curse is that the 360 is too easy to develop for, so now Sony's console is going to take lead development."

No, no its not.

The Xbox 360 sells more games.
The Xbox 360 has more than 18 million consoles in the world, the PS3 has less than 10M.

If a developer wants to make money, he's going to concentrate on the best opportunities, and that is Xbox 360.

The Xbox 360's strenghts are its strenghts, not some kind of silly fantasy advantage of another platform.

You're letting your wishful fantasies get the better of you.

[Chaos Striker]

It's actually above 10 Million...additionally if you don't believe me go check for a Sony press release that officially announced it.

Oh, and another thing....360's strengths are its strengths? Circular argument equates to fallacy, which equates to idiotic rambling to assert you meaningless assertions.

[robbo918]

"The Xbox 360 has more than 18 million consoles in the world, the PS3 has less than 10M."

WOW what world do you live in? Seriously???

Have any proof of your "claim of reality". Using VG Chartz it shows 17.22 for X360 and 10.35 for PS3 as of today without this weeks Japan numbers added in yet, so X360 won't change and add another 20-25k to PS3's numbers. Even if you don't use VG's numbers and we go by Xfans vaunted NPD tell me about January, oh yeah it shows that VG UNDERREPORTED PS3 totals and X360's were about the same. 18 million for X360 was shipped, the MS guy asked in that article from a few days ago you are most likely quoting from said "18 million, yeah 18 million I THINK". Keep in mind X360 has an entire year's head start in sales too.

I hate to play the numbers game but that kind of nonsense from n4user had to be contested. He pretends PS3 is still under 10 million and X360 is over 18 million, wow delusional much?

[SIX]

The 2 versions look identical to me except in the PS3 version there seems to be a greenish hue to everything. I hear that the difference is in the framerate though, but looking at that video comparison I really didn't see any huge framerate drops at all. Honestly guys, this is not a bad game. There are truely some cool visuals and bosses in this game, and I had fun playing it.

[VirusE]

Six i agree; i had a blast playing this game on 360 when it came out. It had lots of cool old school style boss battles which is a big plus.

[meepmoopmeep]

for capcom to release a broken demo it put me off to getting this game. i don't think many ps3 owners have this on their most wanted list. i will rent this one though to see the game for myself.

[Keowrath]

I always wanted to try the game on the 360 but none of my mates that own the console were interested. I downloaded the Japanese demo but couldn't join any matches so I downloaded the US version which was taken down and stopped before I got to play it. Then the UK version came out so I downloaded that, installed actually managed to play this time. Played one game, quit and then deleted lol all that and the game was rubbish.

I don't know if the 360 version is tons better than the PS3 but the Sony version sucked big style. lots of wasted downloading for a game that Capcom wanted us to be impressed about. "We haven't forgotten you PS3 owners" no, but you're not really making that much of an effort though are you?

At least DMC4 was good and I hope and pray they don't screw up the new Bionic Commando.

[JoelR]

The framerate drop that is alluded to is minor - actually watch the video in the review. Oooh... 40-45ish fps vs 60 fps- both are smooth and emanately playable.

and the actual images are much clearer on the PS3 - check out the detail on the still shots they have of the game at the end of the article.

That said... I am kinda sad that Capcom didn't get the framerates up.

[JoelR]

of course this is just from looking at the video

it is possible that the framerate drops through the floor when multiples of enemies/npcs on the screen.... T_T

[mariusmal]

i have dead rising and this one for the x360. they should port dead rising instead of this, dead rising is a good game and lost planet is average in all sectors (except in the graphics).

ps - before the flammers burn.... I OWN A PS3 TOO

[Salvadore]

I actually thought this was a decent title.

[ROCCOZILLA]

single player has great boss fights and the online i couldnt stop playing.and who doesnt love riding in VS!PLAY B3YOND!

[caffman]

been playing it for a year! Hope you enjoy the PS3 version as much as I enjoy the 360 version.

[ROCCOZILLA]

who care about BULLY that was and old ps2 game.im picking up LOST PLANET because the online had gamers from all over the world shooting it out and never lagged once.thats a keeper in my book.ONLINE INSANITY!!

[caffman]

the 360 version has permanently got insane japanese people online screaming and lobbing grenades everywhere! It's bloody fantastic!

[adalwolfe]

yeah i thought it was a good title as well, detailed character movement animations, multiplayer character customization, beautiful effects, good detail. The story was a little cheezy, an sort of short, but all around definately a worthwhile purchase when it was originally released.

Sad that the ps3 owners cannot play a good copy of it. Would of been one of the best titles for the ps3 at this time, much more innovative then resistance, and more replayibility then uncharted/lair/heavenly sword. I guess the 360 proves once again that it is the superior gaming console. How many times is that now? i've lost track...

[FKN Unbelievable]

for a capcom game it could sure you a tech roll or some type of recovery move for When You get hit to the ground. Wayne stays there for too long while bigger monsters form up on you.

[Dannagar]

After reading the title of the article, I expected to read that the Playstation 3 version smoked the Xbox 360. I was shocked to read that the 360 version was still better.

[Utalkin2me]

It's funny how alot of people said i dont care about this game. But clicked the link read the article and then turned around and posted i dont care about this game. The topic of the article was not misleading. So if you dont even care about the game why click the link. Some people should be comedians.

[AIZEN SOZUKE]

cod4 for ps3 beats the 180 version by a mile, so thats all that matters, and ps3 exclusives blow any platforms exclusives out, so thats also all that really matters.

[VirusE]

Ohh really i wouldnt know. I was to busy playing the real version, you know the one for pc that didnt run at 600p, the one that i played was in 2560x1600. 600p??? that isnt even HD, ha ha i played cod 4 with 5 times more pixel detail that you did! h3 and cod4 for the consoles are not real games and hold no real enjoyment due to the lack of 1920x1200 or 2560x1600. Solid controls and well crafted multi-player are worthless with out above 1080p resolutions. I dont care if they got reviewed well or if millions bought them because all those people are wrong! We all know good games run at 1920x1200 or 2560x1600 so sorry I didnt have time for the crappy ps2 version you played. (this was all sarcasm)

It's annoying when someone else acts like you alien isn't it?

[Logan]

it always will be more powerful.

[wow4u]

Hm, funny, the only people still repeating that are sony marketing and its disciples.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is Sony's modus operandi: overpromise and underdeliver. Has been since day one.

I guess my bullshiat meter is better tuned, or Im a more critical thinker, but its been clear for quite some time that the PS3 has been demonstrated to be less powerful than the Xbox 360 many times.

[kevin1122]

n4user, i mean seriously. the ps3 is more powerful, is it that wrong to admit the 360 is weaker. The ps2 was weaker than the xbox but that didnt stop it from being the best console.

[sak500]

Nothing new, same story, the over hyped bluray player that plays few games still can't beat 360.

[gnothe1]

keep telling yourselves that an the pain will go away soon!! all you got to do is believe.

6.2 Kleptic.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said that the 360 is more powerful than MS is stating an currently the PS3 isnt living up to the hype that sony put on it!! now... where have we heard an these performance promises before. toy story graphics, chip strong enough to be use by the MILITARY!! those were PS2 emotion engine promises an non of those were true.

before this gen you NEVER heard about how many gigs a game had, or how this game could only be run on this machine!! that was ALL sony's crap to try an make the PS3 seem way more powerful than the 360. games have did the talking an so far non has showed what sony has been saying to be true!!

this is MY OPINION!! I think the reason the 360 was lead on so many games was because sony promised so much power with the PS3 that devs knew if they built a game on the WEAKER 360 then there would be no problem getting that game to run on the stronger PS3. but how did that turn out!! NOT SO GOOD!! last gen the PS2 had the luxury of having the bigger install base so games were built for the PS2 then ported to the gamecube an xbox 1 which both were able to push out better visuals, WHY because they both were more powerful than the PS2. so how come if a game is built for the PS3 as lead they are able to push the EXCACT same graphics out of the 360 as they do the PS3 but cant do it the other way around. why does 360 games ALWAYS push better textures an colors than the PS3 version of the same game. both version of COD4 are (identical) but the 360 version sports better textures, just like AC, an DMC4. everybody has seen the comparisons an the 360 version DOES have better textures an color. but the PS3 is way more powerful!! lol

[etownone]

its funny to hear how many ps3 owners dont care or want this game now because its a left over, or it could be found on pc, etc. etc.

but what about oblivion? the dev bumped up the textures and you guys couldn't stop ranting on about the "power of the cell" and how this will be the norm in th future. Oblivion was on PC and a port from 360, yet to this day people still bring it up on how it looked better on PS3.
It's funny how you guys pick and choose your games. Same thing with Orange Box, one of the highest rated games of all time. PS3 gets the much inferior port and all of the sudden we hear sonyfans saying, "not interested" who cares" "lazy dumb developers"

its understandable to be frustrated if your a ps3, especially since you need a hard drive to install the game for like 20 min just to start playing. I'm sure in time, devs will get more user friendly and... what a minute, what am i saying? Lost Planet was made by Capcom, same guys that did Devil May Cry, so you gotta wonder? if the developer already has experience and knows how to make games run smooth on ps3, then why does a one year old port from 360 still has to be so inferior on ps3 compared to 360?

[cmrbe]

if i recall Oblivion is a game of the year. This game according to reviewers is average at best.

[etownone]

i figured a sonyfan would come out the woodworks and say something like that,"Oblivion is a game of the year "

thats why i also throw in there orange box, one of the highest rated games of all time.

[cmrbe]

If this game ended up being the same or better than the x360 version. PS fans might buy it. Kind of like NGS. Its quality so people bought it. They didn't care if it was a port of a xbox game. As you mentioned the PS3 version of the Orange box was not only delayed, Got bad press for being significantly worse than the x360 version. Why would PS3 fans be interested or buy it?. Orange box by the way was not a game of the year.

Also you mention Capcom. Yes thats why they are only one of 2 dev if i recall that are having mandatory install for PS3.

[Bleucrunch]

Again who cares about this game?

[LevDog]

Of course 360s version is gonna be better.. They Made the game for 360.. Ps3 version is a port with a few extra specs.. Any game ported from 360 to ps3 always sucks for the ps3.. I was excited about the game until I played the demo and was unimpressed not what I expected

[shysun]

I'll give it a try, looks fun.

[omoshiroi]

And in the end that did not mean DIDDLEY.

As we move forward if the games that come are solid, that is what will decide the victor in this war, not graphics alone. The whole game, the range of available games (MS? anything other than shooters planned?) is much more important in the end than the sum of it's parts.

Did you guys see the hardware sales figures lately? PS3 is outselling the 360 everywhere except here (US). But even in the US it's catching up and FAST. I guess these buyers are not concerned about the slightly better this or that the 360 graphics may have huh?

It's on like Donkey Kong! I'll bet anyone on this forum that the PS3 will DOMINATE within a year and a half, and MS will drop the 360 entirely in 2009 for a new machine.

[HarryEtTubMan]

I had the 360 version and downloaded the PS3 demo. They are VERY close. It is a port.... but still nothing bad whatsovever. This why the PS3 is taking the lead SKU from now on(like the Sony CEO just said 2 days ago) and the 360 versions wont suffer on ports.

[muss1210]

i must agree that the 360 version does look better than the ps3 version, but when capcom developed this game it was to try and push the 360 in japan where sales have been in the 4 figure department(which has been on sale for a few years now) and id guess that they put quiet abit of effort into the game as for the ps3 version well seen as its only been on sale a year or so developers are still getting used to the coding as they did when the 360 was first released. if both systems were releaased at the same time and had capcom had the same amount of experience developing for both systems well things might have been different. until the developers have the same amount of time developing games for both systems under ther belt i dont think you can realy compare the 2 systems against each other,

[cputeq]

...but it doesn't surprise me the PS3's port has performance issues -- this is simply Capcom trying to milk as much dough from the game as possible.

It was programmed *for* the 360.

They ported it to PC, and it had issues (at least, at first).

They *then* port it to PS3 with apparently little-to-no optimizations.

Again, it's not surprising the game doesn't fare well.

It's not a reflection on the PS3's gaming ability, but rather Capcom's desire to pimp out a game without doing the proper legwork in order to get it ported correctly.

[DFresh]

The demo was a multi player set up and not single player which I hated plus it took a while to load.
PS3 FTW!!!!!!!!!
F*** MS!

[sonyfanonly]

THE 360 GUYS ARE JUST MAD BECAUSE WE GOT ANOTHER ONE OF THEIR GAMES AND SOON WE WILL HAVE MASS EFFECT BIOSHOCK AND A NEW IP FROM BUNGIE

[omodis420]

The reason that the whole dev. first on XBox360 and then port to the PS3 is not working out in Sony's favor is because you can not just port a game to the PS3 like they did things a few years ago. The PS3 is a more sophisticated complex machine, which makes it harder to develop for. But if done right there is no doubt the PS3 is more powerful than 360. There was a article on here a few days ago that talked about Insomniac training people how to dev. for the PS3. The system is not even fully tapped yet.
And as far as PS3 being an
"over hyped bluray player that plays few games still can't beat 360."

It is better than buy a cheap defective console, with already out dated tech. and no room for upgrade.

[SolidSnake93]

With all the games coming out on both platforms, does Capcom really expect people to buy this? It's a port and a bad one too. Please Capcom give the Ps3 something decent next time.

[kevin1122]

i dont get it either, you would want the game to be really good so it sells. Not half ass it.

[Sh0ckWav3]

hey this is the same bull we had to put up with when we got a ps2 port