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disolitude on 07 November 2012
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mantlepiecek said:
disolitude said:
Argh_College said:
Gears of War Judgment should aswell look amazing and Forza Horizon already looks best than anything on Ps3 anyway.

While I really don't want to contribute to the PS3 vs 360 graphics war flame, as they both are pretty limited and even by todays standards, I do have to ask...

How did Sony screw up the PS3 performance like this? A year in R&D development is an eternity. A year is the difference between 3DO and PS1. Dreamcast and PS2. PS2 and Xbox... Even if we consider PS3 and 360 a graphical draw, which I think they are with their individual strenghts and weakneses, I have to see this as a failure on the Sony side. 

All they had to do is buy a 360 in 2005, and say to their engeneers..."Look at what this is capable doing, and make sure PS3 does it better."

I don't think it is that simple. R&D should take years from what manufacturers usually say.

Besides, they are both pretty different and it is doubtful if Sony's initial target was to just be better than xbox 360. They had blu-ray, cell all that stuff, they had different plans.


I know there were other strategies involved here like Sony trying to push the Cell and Bluray but ittook Microsoft 9 months to get Xbox 360 from concept to store shelf. Sure there was RROD and all...but just saying it's possible.

Halo 3 was actually going to be original Xbox title but when Nvidia pulled the plug on their Xbox 1 GPU in early 2005 they had a choice of rusing a next gen console or being without a console to sell for Christmas 2005.

Also, Microsoft was smart not to release full specs of 360 before it was released. There are rumors that Sony actually had a different GPU planned for PS3, but due to cost and Microsoft announcing the supposed GPU they were using, they decided to downgrade it. However when the 360 came out it was revealed that the Xenos GPU in the console was a lot closer to the R600 (2000 series, unified shaders) GPU ATI was about to release than the R500 series one (ATI X1800) that Microsoft said was their GPU spec.

the point of all this is that Sony could have easily made an executive decision to swap the GPU in the console for something beefier. GPU performance and lack of dedicated RAM is the weak link of the PS3...