| Retrasado said: Who was saying that LBP couldn't be run on the 360? heck, you could probably run that game on the GC with no problem (other than maybe the 1.5 GB storage medium) And if you are intent on proving your point, you are correct that there are currently no PS3 games that noticably outperform 360 games in any area. However, if you compare current PS3 games (14 months after launch) to 360 games 14 months after launch, there is a noticable difference in at least graphical quality. (Uncharted vs. GeoW? give me a break) So yeah, you are right, there are currently no PS3 games that significantly outperform 360 games, though some PS3 games do marginally outperform 360 games in some areas. This fact should not be very suprising because of the 360's simpler and more conventional architecture and the fact it's been out for a year longer than the PS3. However, if you are attempting to demonstrate the technological superiority of the Xbox 360 over the PS3, that's not the way to do it because second-gen PS3 games are marginally outperforming third-gen 360 games. (which indicates that the PS3 is more powerful) |
Even though the argument was taken off track a bit, the core of my point was not whether the PS3 was or was not more powerful than the XBox 360 ... The point was whether the performance difference actually mattered.
Consider a game like Bloom Blox running on each of the three systems. Suppose that the Wii can support 128 Blox, the XBox 360 can support 512 and the PS3 can support 640 under the same constraints; certainly the PS3 (in this example) can produce more, but is that additional 25% really going to excite someone (besides MikeB) to choose one system over the other?
In a lot of ways this question is one of the main reasons the HD consoles have not taken off to the extent that the Wii has. The Wii's processing power enables it to create a rough version of the exact same gameplay that is available on the XBox 360 and PS3, and the average consumer is not refined enough to notice that the trajectory of an object is off by 2.5% in the Wii version or that your AI in the Jeep on the Wii version runs on a pre-determined path rather than deciding to run you into a cliff on its own.
