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BengaBenga said:
Why bother comapring to PS1/N64 gen? It has the worst graphics (in hindsight) ever, but that was not the importance of that gen. It was the giant leap towards 3D gaming. The step from PS2 - PS3 is very minor in comparisson.

Personally what turns me off this gen is the downright horrible coding. I'm playing Lost Odyssey right now and technically it's horrendous. I love the story/gameplay and the graphics but even installed on the HDD the load times are unexeptable. And there are many games like that. Stable 30fps seems like a real achievement on the HD consoles. EVERY game I played on 360 so far had a patch. And PS3 is the same story. I really don't get why devs are so focussed on the graphics that the technical performance seems like a 2nd or 3rd thought.

Very true, and I've been complaining about that since I got the 360.

It's rather ironic and stupid that the most technically advanced consoles are the ones whose games have the most technical problems. Most Wii games, especially Nintendo ones run at 60 fps with almost no framerate drops. On the 360 (and the PS3 too it seems) the opposite is to be expected. If a HD game can run at a stable 30 fps it's time to throw a party and break the champagne.

I guess developers think it's better for sales to push polygons and textures in order to get some fancy screenshots, than to have a slightly less visually impressive game with a stable framerate.

 



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