starcraft, read the review carefully. From IGN:

"...While GTA IV is pushing the PS3 and 360 to the limit, it also runs amazingly well. Sure, there are framerate hitches here and there and (particularly on 360) there is some texture pop-in, but it actually runs better than I expected...

For those wanting to know which version looks better, the edge goes to the PS3. The textures and framerate are comparable, but the PS3 has far less pop-in. The 360 has richer colors, but the PS3 has better anti-aliasing making it look a little cleaner. Because GTA IV can preload onto the PS3 hard drive, the in-game loads are faster. Don't worry Xbox owners, the load times are rarely more than 30 seconds and don't occur very often. The slight visual edge goes to PS3, but the 360 is no slouch. Either version will do you proud.

A "10" is not a score we give out very often. In fact, the last time we gave a 10 to a console game was Soul Calibur in 1999. A 10 doesn't mean a game is perfect -- it means a game is pushing boundaries, expanding a genre, and doing many things to a level so far above and beyond its competitors that they overshadows any flaws. Certainly, GTA IV has some issues, the most noticeable being the occasional flaw in the cover system, but there are many more pieces of GTA IV that are better than anything I've seen from a game in the past decade. We don't give 10s often -- just to games that merit the score."

Please, you didn't just go there.  You didn't compare the game's online capabilities and integration?

Now I'm in denial, I cannot believe a Sony fan just played that card.

Look at it this way.  10=10=no discernible difference. 

You said the 360 is the only one with potential with future improvement, but I disagree. The PS3 *will* get DLC and Home intergration. Those are two improvements from the original game release. Take off them fanboy googles and accept reality that the PS3 version runs and looks better, hence better version. I bet you if this was the other way around, you would've been shoving this all over the Sony forums.

And for the last time, IGN gave it a 10 because it deserves it, even though it has flaws. Read that last paragraph.

Your not seeing this the way it is, your seeing it the way you want to see it.  The game almost certainly already has home integration.  I bet people with Alpha access will have GTAIV home integration come Tuessday.  But to say that Home integration will come anywhere near the service Live offers is ridiculous.

I will say again.  The part that YOU BOLDED says that all scores are relative to competition.  So the 360 deserves a ten EVEN relative to the PS3 version which means there cannot possibly be a significant difference between the two.  Either way, we'll see when GT releases a comparison.