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what benefit you get by comparing muli platform games

-is it so your fanboy ego will increase

-is it because you wish one to fail an the other to rise

-is it so one  can justify that their console is better than the others

 

bottom line who gives a monkeys nut sack.

 

add you onw opinion discuss



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This is the most pathetic part of the console wars. There is NO point to them, at all... im trying to think of any benefit that would go towards the winning side and I cant think of 1



Hell most comparisons are stupid because 90% of the time you need a magnifing glass to find the difference



Xxain said:
Hell most comparisons are stupid because 90% of the time you need a magnifing glass to find the difference

^^ that i have to agree, take a look for FF13,MW2, and many more

in actual fact when we are all gaming do we actually care to see whether graphic quality is this or that, what actually we are most concern of is hows the plot, gameplay, etc...



The bigger question is why so many comparisons are made to games which haven't been released yet



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i even notice games with different genres are being compared for example Alan wake and Heavy rain.

whats going on here...
or apparels like the arc and natal



um.... why would you compare any two things?
To see which one you would rather get. The fact that comparison threads are tinged with fanboyism doesn't mean that the comparison is unjustified.



I survived the Apocalyps3

Comparison of any industry, government, or other source of power is necessary. If you don't, knowledge is limited, corrupted and abused. It is necessary for the average citizen to voice their opinion no matter what. Otherwise ideology is overly corrupted. Nobodies opinion will matter, but those in charge.



If you own both consoles wouldn't you want to get the platform that it runs best for?



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Clearly the sites that host comparisons see a lot of traffic, and generate a lot of attention. Fanboys love the idea their bias might have some basis in truth.

It's all pretty ugly.

The simple fact is the PS3/360 are pretty darn equal and if everyone would understand that when you get something like Bayonetta it doesn't mean the PS3 itself is somehow inferior, it means the developers wrote worse code for that console.

Now, with FFXIII, we're seeing the reverse (which is rarer due to earlier release of 360) with 360 getting the weaker version. Again, this doesn't mean the 360 is inferior as a console, it means it's saddled with the weaker code.

All these comparisons and games have proven is that, so far, the PS3 has received a greater number of poorer coded games but the 360 isn't immune to the same problem if the developer actually leads on PS3 first then produces a rushed port.

That's it.  What they tell you is all about the developer, how much effort they put in, and which console may have received 'the rush job' but they should never be used to extrapolate anything about the consoles themselves, which is of course what most people do.

EDIT: now, as others have said, in theory the potential good reason for comparisons is to chose versions if you have multiple machines.  The problem is I don't believe these comparisons really exist for that reason.  That's the excuse for them to exist - although it is a valid reason.  The goal is clearly to drive hits, marketing traffic and they are mainly taken all out of context.

In theory, if developers did an equally good job as they should professionaly, then comparisons would be irrelevant as they would have nothing really to note, other than minor differences of rendering colours, etc.

 



Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...