Is the PS3 living up to its do everything moniker?

[MikeB]

@ Squilliam

I mean, I don't hear my PS3 unless I'm sitting next to it with the volume turned down.

Resolution is one of many aspects making a game prettier, a bad looking movie in DVD quality will look bad on Blu-Ray as well. You can make many old PC games render in very high resolutions, but there usually isn't much to gain as the texture quality, polygon counts, special effects aren't that good by today's standards. Blu-Ray allows for a great varierty of high quality assets, but it's just one of various different aspects why the PS3's top games are at the very top with regard to production value and presentation. Credit should go just as well to the excellence of the developers as to the PS3's technical specifications.

And my PC is pretty damn noisy nowadays and I replaced its main fan just 2 years ago...