Because its easier to make nice graphics, when you load a small track a little at the time, with not too much on screen. The world is so small so its easier to use the power that would otherwise be used for a larger world to make graphics better.

Uncharted is HD, has better texture work, no loading outside the initial, and more detailed character models.

 Get your eyes checked.

I say they both lag behind Wii... and no amount of facts will shift me!

Sound familiar?

Also, who cares? If you want to argue about graphics at least buy a decent PC and really have at it

Have a look at COD4 on a really high end PC (or Crysis obviously) and then argue about graphics.

Graphics are nice but if the gameplay is rubbish its like having a thin layer of really lovely sauce on putrid pasta if you ask me (sorry but I'm hungry right now and can only seem to think about food!).

Just to add something more constructive I'd say that 360 slightly edges PS3 for most current gen games (i.e. engines and techniques designed prior to PS3 such as say the U3 engine) however I feel that PS3 could deliver extra in gameplay if developers would pump more effort into using the thing for better AI, physics, etc. leveraging its extra number crunching and stop trying to push graphics only.

I keep thinking stuff like 'Uncharted looks fine, leave the graphics there and get the AI up, get the physics up, use the processing power to add stuff to the game within the same level of graphics'...

Who cares about the loading? This thread is about graphics, not lateral stuff like streaming which enables the no-loads policy.

The textures don't look much different in detail, maybe the character models are more detailed but let's not ignore the vast CPU/GPU penalty of 60 fps vs 30 fps.

So therefore, it's relative.  If kanariya wants to mention GT5P, maybe that's in comparison to other racing games of similar nature in his/her opinion.  I see nothing wrong with that.

Then why does frame rate matter?  A Crysis slideshow looks better than NG2, might not be playable, but it looks better.  And you are ignoring that NG2 runs at a lower resolution than uncharted.

 Right so you can have all these incredible uncompressed assets, and then you have to fit em in the 220mb the graphics card has available and can show.

Good going there.

Of course, but its not the most technically impressive game, and in order to figure the power of a console by looking at games you must find which game uses most of the hardware. Also he is comparing it to non racing sims.

It matters because we're talking about console power.

Look at it this way (information taken from the reliable beyond3d thread):

Uncharted - 30 fps at 1280x720 with 2xAA, that's 27.6 million pixels per second

Ninja Gaiden 2 - 60 fps at 1120x585 with 2xAA, that's 39.3 million pixels per second

Do you see the vast performance impact of using 60 fps, even at a lower resolution?