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eggs2see on 13 May 2010
tuscaniman said:
tingyu said:
360 is maxed out already, Halo reach is not much different from Halo 3. Developers on 360 only focus on Xenos which already reached its limit year before.

PS3 although has a slightly weaker GPU RSX, the power of the Cell with its 7 SPU has not been fully improvised (its 7!!!, not 2 not 3), u can expect Uncharted 3 to be way better than Unchatered 2.

However, 360 still can have plenty of innovation from Natal. Graphics is not everything, wait for E3

Thanks for your input non 360 owner. I'm sure you have a lot of first hand experience with Reach as well. No actually you don't and I'm assuming your making your observations by low res videos you have seen on the internet. Reach is miles ahead of Halo 3 in the graphical department and its just the Beta.  Reach actually runs in 720p as well while Halo 3 ran at sub HD. The final game will be one of the best looking on the console. Unless you have played the beta multiple times on an HDTV then don't waste time commenting.

Gee that's funny, I must have missed the part in the OP where this thread was about halo reach. Why not next time instead of attacking someone add something constructive to the post, it's better for everyone.



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roland32 on 13 May 2010

Well my 360 maxed about about a year ago it had these 3 little red lights. It was Fight night that did it in so Fight Night=maxed 360



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DaHuuuuuudge on 13 May 2010

You can always squeeze a little more water out of a sponge.



Squilliam on 13 May 2010

Theres always room for improvement, especially with the programming techniques evolving all the time. At worst there are a few titles which have tapped all the easily available optimisations.



Tease.

RiksK15 on 13 May 2010

There is always space to improve but 360 was maxed already a long time ago, probably the first game that really "maxed" 360 was GTA IV... Xbox 360 was actually limiting GTA IV! There were no complaints about PS3 tough...

Well sure if developers try really hard they can always push a little more out of the console, so consoles will never trully max, they will alaways get a little better but there won't be much improvment anymore on 360 because it is very close to its maxing point!

PS3 hower has more untill "maxing"! And I think we might still see next Uncharted to be the last big jump... Then will see only slight improvments!



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yo_john117 on 13 May 2010

There is always more room for improvement, anyone who says otherwise doesn't have their head on straight.



RiksK15 on 13 May 2010
yo_john117 said:

There is always more room for improvement, anyone who says otherwise doesn't have their head on straight.

For xbox 360 it is only slight improvment, the best of 360 we have already seen!!! Sure IT IS possible to push more out of the consoles but they wont bother to, so we could say that 360 will be maxed with Gears of War 3!!!

 

Edit: one more proof that 360 is "maxed" is that games like alan wake and hale reach instead of increasing the resulution they decrease the resulution to 540p which is only sub-hd!

 

While PS3 games you see still increasing the resulution, even if they are best looking games this generation - God of War 3 = 1080p and Gran Turismo 5 = 1080p



yo_john117 on 13 May 2010
RiksK15 said:
yo_john117 said:

There is always more room for improvement, anyone who says otherwise doesn't have their head on straight.

For xbox 360 it is only slight improvment, the best of 360 we have already seen!!! Sure IT IS possible to push more out of the consoles but they wont bother to, so we could say that 360 will be maxed with Gears of War 3!!!

I don't think so....There haven't been really any developers that made an engine specifically for the 360.



RiksK15 on 13 May 2010
yo_john117 said:
RiksK15 said:
yo_john117 said:

There is always more room for improvement, anyone who says otherwise doesn't have their head on straight.

For xbox 360 it is only slight improvment, the best of 360 we have already seen!!! Sure IT IS possible to push more out of the consoles but they wont bother to, so we could say that 360 will be maxed with Gears of War 3!!!

I don't think so....There haven't been really any developers that made an engine specifically for the 360.

Well if there haven't been developers that could have made an engine specifically for the 360, than what makes you think that there ever will be???



Hynad on 13 May 2010
RiksK15 said:
yo_john117 said:

There is always more room for improvement, anyone who says otherwise doesn't have their head on straight.

Edit: one more proof that 360 is "maxed" is that games like alan wake and hale reach instead of increasing the resulution they decrease the resulution to 540p which is only sub-hd!

 

While PS3 games you see still increasing the resulution, even if they are best looking games this generation - God of War 3 = 1080p and Gran Turismo 5 = 1080p

Halo: Reach runs at a 1152x720 resolution, which misses the 720p HD resolution by a slight margin.  But is still higher resolution than Alan Wake.

God of War 3 is 720p native, not 1080p.  The PS3 can upscale it to 1080p.

We've yet to see if GT5 will be true 1080p.  If Prologue is any indication, the game will run at a native 1280x1080 resolution (not 1920x1080, which is 1080p resolution).

 

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