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bonzobanana on 10 April 2014
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d21lewis said:
2008ProchargedGT said:

Did the graphical diff stop you from enjoying any ps2 games during that generation? I don't think so either. So this really is a non issue. Yes there is a diff but in the end both systems are gonna have great exclusives. So buy both and get your multiplats on ps4 .Happy gaming


Pretty much.  I din't own an Xbox during the 6th gen but the general consensus was that multi-plats always looked better on that console.  When I got Bloodrayne 2 for the Xbox (Played on 360), the "noticeable difference" wasn't really that noticeable at all compared to my PS2 experience.  And while there were Xbox games that had to be redesigned to even run on the PS2 (Splinter Cell series, for example, had to have smaller environments/levels), there were also times where PS2 games stood up very well to the more powerful Xbox (Like God of War).  One is clearly more powerful but, as you said, both will have their moments of greatness.

I had both xbox and ps2 and both had great games. Multiformat games were almost always better on xbox. The point I would make though is the xbox achieved games that would simply be impossible on ps2 to any acceptable standard. Games like Doom and Half Life 2 would not be possible with the lower memory, weak cpu and lack of hard drive. The xbox was an amazing console for its generation and enabled access to games that no other console of its generation could provide. 

Even the wii isn't capable of what the xbox achieved in many instances. 

So I understand for many games you can see ps2 and xbox as similar but for other games the ps2 was not even capable of running the same games as xbox. It's like return to castle wolfenstein on the ps2 and xbox. Xbox engine was up and running in 2 weeks but it took something like 9 months to get running on ps2. Still weaker on ps2 too and not even that ambitious a fps game compared to something like half life 2 which has a huge open world in places constantly loading in new data from hard drive.