Eurogamer's X360 vs. PS3 Face-Off: Round Eleven

Yes, you're all waiting for the GTA IV face-off, and Eurogamer have something special lined up for that, but in the meantime, perhaps they can tempt you with this delicious range of cross-platform fancies?

* NFL Tour
* Dark Sector
* Soldier of Fortune: Payback
* SEGA Superstars Tennis
* MX vs. ATV Untamed
* Turning Point
* Condemned 2: Bloodshot
* Viking: Battle for Asgard

[Darkiewonder]

We all know that 360 came out on top with every single game listed.

[wass007]

Any of them even top sellers???
And wheres Burnout Paradise???

[digger18]

@wass007

Burnout Paradise was done in round eight on that site and even then it favours the xbox 360's version

Edit: Why disagree with me? Go read it for yourself.

[Capt CHAOS]

Didn't want to upset the PS3 girlies.

[GIJeff]

its common knowledge that burnout plays and looks best on PS3. Anyone see the update for the patch? fixes for long pauses on the 360 when streaming..etc. this site IS NOT using full range, and its damn obvious. Why even bother?

[toughNAME]

Ah well

[m-s-8-2]

i must be blind, but i can never see a difference in these head to heads.

[nirwanda]

with the only exception being soldier of fortune(no chance of me ever picking that up) which looks quite a bit better more foliage better floor and tree textures suppose you really have to see them move to see any real difference AA frame rate etc.

[00]

are they comparing most of the bad games, theres really no point.

[green]

i think eurogamer have covered almost if not every multiplat title relases on both consoles.You just have to check their previous comparisings if you are looking for anyone in particular.

[fablib]

Unfortunately, Xbox360 versions are all far better…as usual.

I do not know…I begin to be afraid that all this talking about “warm and soft” GTA IV graphic for PS3 means the infamous “Vaseline Effect”…
And have you see the last in-game shot of MGS4 ?!? Terrible terrible terrible! It is a nightmare?!?!
And Kojima statements?
And Home not until this fall? And paying for GT Prologue? Great graphic but I just hope for something more… And when a Final Fantasy game will be released?
When something good a part from Uncharted!!!!
Well, I am quite tired of all the promises Sony keep doing.
They told me PS2 was the best console of the last generation and I believed them… Well it was a huge lie: Dreamcast, Xbox1, Gamecube… all of them were much more powerful consoles….
And now… an year has already pass…
I do not know. Maybe I only shocked by MGS4 graphic…
Maybe I am just too angry…

[THE TERMINATOR]

Keep playing your xbox thats good enough for you...
Ill enjoy my PS3
"In motion MGS4 looks like a movie" Gamepro.
I think its just you.

[xboxftw]

"In motion MGS4 looks like a movie" Gamepro

I'm sure they meant color like loose motion.

[ruibing]

What a long off-topic rant from someone who just took this article as an opportunity to smear the PS3 name.

All of these game still simply translates into the 360 benefiting from its early availability and being the lead development platform, hence all the games currently available now are 3rd-4th generation engines on the 360 but only 1st-2nd on the PS3. But even now the differences are being minimized until it'll be unnoticeable by the end of this year.

[fablib]

Terminator, actually, I have a PS3.
But don’t you really fell frustrated?
I just keep on playing Uncharted and Ninja Gaiden… And watch bluray… but no much more with the exception of long term promises… and delays…
I was a die-hard fan (a true fanboy!) at PS2 times…
But now… I am enough grown up to be a blind fanboy… The evidences are all around…
After all, we just have to enjoy our great machine. With the awareness that also this time (at least for me) we do not have the super mighty console that Sony has promised us. Sony has cheated us again. And this is the only things that really makes me angry!!!

ps. MGS4 in-game shots show h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e background texture (in terms of resolution I mean) and many many rough details… Some seem really old gen!! Anyway it will be a great game, I am more than sure. But they just promise me a graphic masterpiece… You see another Sony promise.

[GIJeff]

I swear to your mom that my PS3 does not have this "Vaseline effect". This is weird to me. I mean, if i turn off full range and everything and basically try to make the screen look bad, then yea, it looks bad, anything would. However, everything enabled with HDMI....dood the colors are unmatched. Motorstorm, heavenly sword, uncharted, ratchet and clank, warhawk, etc etc. look IN-FCKING-SANE with proper equipment. And if you havent experienced it, i feel kinda sorry for you.

[spooky205]

seriously, so your longer a sony fanboy and become a microsoft fanboy.*sighs* your beloved microsoft is not any better than sony. if you think otherwise then the open zone is thataway------>

refering to MGS4 the graphics definitely look top notch, but you cant infer that from youtube quality videos over the internet can you? is your tv even hi def? and i mean really hi def? not some 720p resolution, but at least a 1080i or 1080p? have you downloaded the trailer? did you play the demo at E3? im pretty sure you haven't. in any case even if the graphics were crap who cares? i didn't exactly play through mgs1 for graphics anyway. hell MGS4 could be on the wii and i for one would still buy it first day.

[xg-ei8ht]

Gamecube?

lmao.

[THE TERMINATOR]

Eurogamer are biased
I have COD4 on PS3 and my brother has the 360 version. Let me tell you theres a big difference favouring the PS3 version yet Eurogamer said they were identicle. I suppose GTA4 will be "identicle" in there eyes and we all know thats bull.

[THE TERMINATOR]

EDGE "This game will blow you away".

[sniddles]

I'm a little bummed b/c i thought this might finally be the time PS3 mounts an attack to the 360's undefeated throne,, oh well.

I'm glad i don't JUST have a PS3, b/c i'd be pretty bummed about it. I don't think these are ever going to change. I honestly think the 360 is a more powerful machine for graphics (maybe not physics, AI, etc.). It just is. There's many times i'm playing PS3 games where i see textures and think that same texture would be higher res if it was on my 360, sorry, but it's true.

Oh well. I'm loving both of em, just makes you wonder what a game like GT5P would look like on 360.

Disagrees away,,,,, but cmon, be honest and look at these shots... It just ain't gonna happen folks... This was how many rounds now???

[Xbox is the BEST]

the truth

[GIJeff]

would look like a slideshow on 360. so, if you want to play GT5P on the 360, heres what you do:

1) download as many images from IGN as you can to your computer.
2) View them as a slide show from My Pictures.
3) hurray!

[sniddles]

because i have it for PS3. And it is very good, if not a little cheap. Playing a game w/o damage after playing forza for a year was a big change though... But, don't get me wrong, it's an amazing game, but i do mostly play it for the graphics (i can read the wording on the headlight stalks for god's sake, incredible)...

Just saying, it most likely would NOT be a slideshow. The GPU in the 360 is just a better GPU. Simple as that.

[Still_Breathing]

I just realized all my games are PS3 exclusive.
Tekken 5 DR online
Warhawk
Motorstorm
Uncharted
Heavenly Sword
GT5: Prologue

[Nostradamus]

Heavenly Sword
Ratchet
Uncharted
Warhawk

All my multiplats are on 360, thats where all my friends are. none of them have a PS3.

[digger18]

I hoped that when GTA IV came out for the PS3 it wouldn't have that “Vaseline Effect”, but after what I saw of it running on a PS3 display in Curry's (Northants, UK) 2 days ago is that it has it big time, looked washed out and blurry as hell :(

I will wait to see the 360's version before knowing which one to get.

[GIJeff]

also has the Vaseline effect you turd. <- jk, i couldnt resist...thats what she said...damnit. anyways, how come none of my games have this Vaseline effect you speak of?

[InMyOpinion]

"As is increasingly becoming the norm with many cross-platform projects, there's a puzzling lack of anti-aliasing in the PlayStation 3 game, and the frame-rate is a touch less consistent"

It's nice to be reminded of which ones are playing with true power and which ones are playing with hyped up garbage.

[GIJeff]

how many 360 games run @ 1080p @ 60fps...oh wait.... the only thing that is apparent is companies that make the cheap games are still deving on the 360 garbage first. why? because its almost the same as deving for PC, which is easy as hell. There have been many games already for the PS3 that show it is a vastly superior piece of hardware. and if you wernt such a closed minded moron you would know this. Uncharted = unmatched. GT5 = unrivaled. Ratchet and Clank = breathtaking. all you have to brag about as a 360 MS b!tch is gears, which, UT3 > gears. what about motorstorm? oh wait, that would run at 2fps on 360 hardware. whats the matter? lacking the power to do proper physics AND graphics? awwww. its OK, i hear your 360 can almost keep up with my desktop computer when doing MS Word.

pwned.

[Xbox is the BEST]

supposedly has more power so games should look better on it

[chanto23]

LACK OF ANTI-ALIASING!!!! on most multi-plat games the aliasing is inexcusable compared to the 360 versions...i dont get why it's like that, i mean i've seen games on the PS3 with really soft sexy looking edges. At first i thought it was just till devs figured the hardware out but we are 1.5 years into the cycle and still we have this annoying issue.

Do you guys think it might be that my tv screen is too big and it shows this flaw via HDMI...my TV is only 40" 1080p Samsung with motion flow 120Hz...

[Jdoki]

These comparisons are handy as I own both consoles, so if I ever go insane and decide I MUST play Fall of Liberty I'll surely know that the 360 version is better!

From a technical point of view, these are just fanboy fodder.

I think it'll be another 6 - 9 months before we see more and more comparable multi-platform games. Most games take around 18 months to 2 years to complete, so it's obvious that the 360 would be the lead platform.

As devs get a PS3 game under their belt it should see the gap close. I have a feeling most devs starting projects now, and probably in the last 3 - 6 months, may well be leading with PS3 if it's a purely console game, but may well still be on the 360 as a lead if the game includes a PC release as well.

[Tunerboy8732]

Dont you know that Sony lied to you about the PS3 from the get go?Ever wonder why multiplatform games mostly look and run better on the 360?Well the 360 not only has a more powerful GPU,it also has 3X more memory bandwitch and 3 CPU cores while the PS3's cell only has one.Only advantage PS3 has in the Performance is its Blu Ray which holds up to 55GB while a 360 Dual-Layer DVD holds up to 8.5GB

[Gamingskills]

Back when the rumor was going around that MGS4 was coming to the 360 some of you Sony guys was saying that the game was looking bad since it was a possibility that it was coming to the 360 it had been dumbed down graphically now its been confirmed a PS3 exclusive now you guys say the graphics look awesome. Make up your minds please!

[xg-ei8ht]

The only thing 360 gpu that is any good, is the aa chip.

Graphically theres nothing to choose between them in most of these games.

Reason most of these games run like sh^t on ps3 is nothing to do with gpu, it's to do with small companies not knowing and understanding sh^t about cell. They just use the ppu, when they should be porting all available code to spu' and then the ppu runs it.