360 maxed out, PlayStation3 isn't.

[MikeB]

@ NightAntilli

and I hope you are aware "smoke and mirrors" happens in PS3 games as well, not just the X360.

Of course and in the end, the end experience matters the most. Not the tricks used to achieve this.

The PS3 is not that powerful as people tend to believe it to be.

I would say the PS3 is a lot more powerful than people realize (not the 360 at this point, I think its potential is being overestimated by fans at this point). I think Uncharted 2 is already well beyond what most people expected from the PS3 2 years ago.

Or they are both being maxed out, or neither, because they both have their strengths and weaknesses and it's not like the PS3 is more powerful on every front. Remember the Crysis 2 remark?

I expect Crysis 2 to have an edge on the PS3, however it's designed as a multi-platform title. So we probably won't see the game take full advantage of the Blu-Ray capacity nor the Cell as for example you can't have one version of the game with twice the amount of onscreen activity as another version, which would otherwise result into a very different game.