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Deneidez on 27 April 2009
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Reasonable said:
Slimebeast said:

Not a significant difference. Bump maps, HDR, textures, normal maps, parallax maps, shadows - everything is the same on PC and PS360, xcept for the little cut off in view distance on the PS360 version of Fallout 3. Generally the difference is only in a little AA/AF (and notice that these are hardware effects, not differences in the game versions ifself) and sometimes slightly compressed textures on PS360.

We must different eyes because when I play Fallout 3, or Oblivion or CoD4 on a PC vs 306/PS3 I see a pretty decent difference in overall image quality - doesn't affect gameplay of course, the good bits are still good and the bad bits are still bad.  But visuall there is a significant difference so far as I can see.  Checking out the site where I think you got the Fallout 3 images their analysis seems to point to a pretty big difference between the PC and console versions.

However, as per Squill's point (and I think you echoed the same sentiment) it doesn't seem quite as massive as you'd imagine, which I think is down to the developers rather than the PC platform - i.e. if you're making Fallout 3 or CoD4 would you really sink that much more into the title to make it shine vs PS3/360 or would you simply give it a graphics hike and call it a day?

While I see lots of 360 is holding the PS3 version back rubbish I am starting to feel the 360/PS3 versions are holding the PC versions back a tad.  For sure they're resulting in less well coded PC versions judging by the high level of bugs present in a lot of recent high profile PC versions of big titles.

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Also Slimebeast should try to use pics with native resolutions and not some low res crappy pics. Try these for example,

http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/2/8/5/4/3/2/360_011.jpg.jpg

http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/2/8/5/4/3/2/PC_011.jpg.jpg

(Oh, and fallout 3 on PS3 has better normal maps than X360 version, but X360 version has better shadows than PS3 version. PC has both. ;) )

You can see some missing stuff in X360 version in those pictures. Consoles are holding PC versions back and very badly. I bought my PC about 3-4 years ago and I still can play these new multiplatform games with ease. Not of course with resolution beyond HD, but better than neither HD console can do(Usually 1280x1024). :P

I also think that at least physX will make some difference between PC and console versions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0xRJt8rcmY&feature=related



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