If the 360 can't do graphics like the PS3, HOW can it do THIS?

[Mazty]

Ultibankai said:

selnor said:

Te main point was, that PS3 is not as capable as you think.

This is Crytek speaking in front of Sony and all devs at GDC:

" Now theres alot of engines that run, or to major engines that run beside us on consoles. But I would argue that nobody is running on PS3 as good as we do. I can put my hand on fire on this, NOBODY. I mean nobody. I have seen what people are running on PS3 and we here are running on PS3, 360 and PC this quality bar. I mean PS3 is the lowest medium for alot of people and in our case PS3 is running at the top level.

It's very difficult. The PS3 as an engine..uh.. as a technology platform is extremely challenging. But all the SPU's, the Cell architecture itself.. the...the.. low end GPU compared to the rest of the family, the 360 and PC it adds complexity to it, but we have managed to extract that complexity for the developer and write intelliugent computer systems that actually take care of the problems. Umm thats it."

Exactly, the PS3 is slightly inferior in terms of clock speed for textures and lighting, but slightly outdoes the 360 in terms of Physics, Particle effects, and the amount of things on screen at once.  Part of the reason the PS3 version of Batman: AA has a better camera angle to show more details on screen.   There was a site posted earlier in this very thread that explains these things.

*Notice the word Slightly*

There is no huge gap between these consoles that certain fanboys would have people believe.  They are equal in many ways, and better than each other in a few.  The 360's GPU is by a fair margin better than the PS3's, but the PS3's CPU is even greater than the 360's.  When everything is said and done they are about equal, but one is definitely easier to harness.  The quality bar for each console depends on the developers.

The CPU on the PS3 is far superior to that of the 360, and pushes the graphic capabilities far past the 360 as there is very little in it GPU vs GPU,, as the Cell doesn't suck for rendering. Plus, the PS3 has a permanent HDD, which allows for texture installation, which is a great advantage of the PS3.