Twistedpixel said:
Reasonable said:
Twistedpixel said:
God of War 2 is possible on the PS2... Obviously God of War 3 would be possible on the Xbox 360. Degraded or not it doesn't matter, but in truth its a correct statement. If you took the statement God of War 3 = not possible on the Xbox 360 to its logical conclusion, then you would have to say games like Battefield: Bad Company 2 aren't possible on the PS3 OR Xbox 360. Im personally sick of the kind of statements like this, God of War is artistically amazing but in terms of sheer polygons/shaders/physics its surpassed by other titles and that magic isn't lost in the slight translation between the Xbox 360 and PS3.
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To date I haven't seen any game on either that I don't think the other couldn't support in principle provided the engine was well coded and optimized for the plaftorm - any difference either way has for the most part been a matter of code optimization leaning towards one platform over the other.
The single definate advantage I see for the PS3 at this point is simply capacity - which impacted FFXIII and to an extent Rage from id. This simply means that, on a single disk, PS3 can support greater variety of textures, etc. and/or higher resolution cinematics and better audio.
But in terms of the game engine and running it, both seem fairly similar in basic specs from a gaming perspective.
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In this case the variety of textures is caused more by them prebaking lighting, SSAO etc into the textures themselves as a quick/dirty optimisation to make the game look better and free the processing power for other things. They haven't likely gone out and made 30GB of purely unique source textures, it just doesn't make sense, so the game can fit onto two discs at worst with just unique textures and dynamic lighting.
If the Xbox 360 can do a decent reproduction on 2 discs then theres no problem, it can run it and Alan Greenburg is correct.
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Well strictly speaking he's spinning (understandably as that's his job) that 360 is better, which he clearly references, so a close match with lower resolution videos, etc. isn't 'better' as he puts it.
My point is that, for the most part, the only truly tangible advantage I see between the consoles is BR capacity over DVD, which is 100% factual of course. However much you compress or pack onto a DVD you can pack more onto a BR, and obviously DVD impacts design (as with Rage) to minimise disk swapping.
