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Silentburritoassasin on 07 November 2008

Yeah, Blame Gamespot for the Sony's mistakes haha.

Sorry guys it's time to admit the PS3 is last in the food chain this gen. There's always next time.

 



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thejuicingamer on 07 November 2008
Silentburritoassasin said:

Yeah, Blame Gamespot for the Sony's mistakes haha.

Sorry guys it's time to admit the PS3 is last in the food chain this gen. There's always next time.

 

 

next time? this console war is just heating up in case you haven't noticed, BTW you can declare this war over once GT5 and FF launch in japan on PS3 'nuff said.



Garnett on 07 November 2008
Username2324 said:

Just so you all know, I did not go looking for a biased site, I discovered it mistakenly.

So I've been checking out the screens for the upcoming big hitters on PS3. Particularly Resitance 2 and Killzone. During my endeveurs I discovered something unusual.... To me it seemed that 2 of the biggest games for the PS3 were...... graphically unpleasing. I thought to myself "surely this can't be, I've seen so many praise these graphics... Are they blind?". These shots I was looking at on Gamespot seemed to be extremely blurry. So I decided to check out some PS3 games I owned and knew how they looked (Warhawk & Uncharted in particular) and I was amazed to see that Warhawk, and game that looks good but is no where near amazing appeared to be better than Resistance 2 and Killzone 2!

So I began to look into it... The file sizes for Warhawk & Uncharted screens generally ranged from 300KB to 450KB while the Killzone and Resitance shots ranged from 200KB to 300KB. I was amazed, the shots for KZ2 and R2 often had 2, or 3 times more going on and the file sizes are drastically lower! Is Gamespot intentionally compressing and distorting PS3 screens to make them look worse?

I figured I needed a second source before I could call foul play, so I referred to IGN. And sure enough, not only were their screenshots of Resistance 2 much sharper and clearer but the file sizes were in that clear and crisp 300-450KB range nearly 33% larger file sizes than Gamespots.

I still wasn't ready to call out Gamespot... I thought to myself, perhaps they've just been compressing their screens too much lately, could be an honest mistake right? So I looked at some Gears of War 2 screens, and sure enough they were in that magical 300-400KB range right on par with IGN. (I found the same thing with LBP screens, IGN screens were clearer, and had larger file sizes)

So, is Gamespot making PS3 screens look worse to turn away potential customers?

I know I will not be going to gamespot for screenshots anymore.

 

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Silentburritoassasin on 07 November 2008
thejuicingamer said:
Silentburritoassasin said:

Yeah, Blame Gamespot for the Sony's mistakes haha.

Sorry guys it's time to admit the PS3 is last in the food chain this gen. There's always next time.

 

 

next time? this console war is just heating up in case you haven't noticed, BTW you can declare this war over once GT5 and FF launch in japan on PS3 'nuff said.

 

Meh, Japan isnt the only country in the world, FF will sell better on the PS3 than Xbox in Japan, But i bet Xbox will beat the PS3 in FF sales elsewhere.

There is just no way in hell the PS3 will ever pass the Xbox, much less the Wii this Gen. Sorry dude.



krimoz911 on 07 November 2008
Silentburritoassasin said:
thejuicingamer said:
Silentburritoassasin said:

Yeah, Blame Gamespot for the Sony's mistakes haha.

Sorry guys it's time to admit the PS3 is last in the food chain this gen. There's always next time.

 

 

next time? this console war is just heating up in case you haven't noticed, BTW you can declare this war over once GT5 and FF launch in japan on PS3 'nuff said.

 

Meh, Japan isnt the only country in the world, FF will sell better on the PS3 than Xbox in Japan, But i bet Xbox will beat the PS3 in FF sales elsewhere.

There is just no way in hell the PS3 will ever pass the Xbox, much less the Wii this Gen. Sorry dude.

Can I quote you on that?

 



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blazinhead89 on 07 November 2008

LOL @ Silentburrito, FF Isn't coming out on 360 in Japan. PS3 FFXIII(Japan Alone)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>360 FFXIII (NA +Eu)



amp316 on 07 November 2008

Gamespot isn't biased against Sony or Nintendo. It's just only interested in the 360 and nothing else. :p



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Garnett on 07 November 2008
Garnett said:
Username2324 said:

Just so you all know, I did not go looking for a biased site, I discovered it mistakenly.

So I've been checking out the screens for the upcoming big hitters on PS3. Particularly Resitance 2 and Killzone. During my endeveurs I discovered something unusual.... To me it seemed that 2 of the biggest games for the PS3 were...... graphically unpleasing. I thought to myself "surely this can't be, I've seen so many praise these graphics... Are they blind?". These shots I was looking at on Gamespot seemed to be extremely blurry. So I decided to check out some PS3 games I owned and knew how they looked (Warhawk & Uncharted in particular) and I was amazed to see that Warhawk, and game that looks good but is no where near amazing appeared to be better than Resistance 2 and Killzone 2!

So I began to look into it... The file sizes for Warhawk & Uncharted screens generally ranged from 300KB to 450KB while the Killzone and Resitance shots ranged from 200KB to 300KB. I was amazed, the shots for KZ2 and R2 often had 2, or 3 times more going on and the file sizes are drastically lower! Is Gamespot intentionally compressing and distorting PS3 screens to make them look worse?

I figured I needed a second source before I could call foul play, so I referred to IGN. And sure enough, not only were their screenshots of Resistance 2 much sharper and clearer but the file sizes were in that clear and crisp 300-450KB range nearly 33% larger file sizes than Gamespots.

I still wasn't ready to call out Gamespot... I thought to myself, perhaps they've just been compressing their screens too much lately, could be an honest mistake right? So I looked at some Gears of War 2 screens, and sure enough they were in that magical 300-400KB range right on par with IGN. (I found the same thing with LBP screens, IGN screens were clearer, and had larger file sizes)

So, is Gamespot making PS3 screens look worse to turn away potential customers?

I know I will not be going to gamespot for screenshots anymore.

 

You fail!

http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zomgfanboysfg9.jpg

 

http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zomgfanboys2hr2.jpg

 

Another thread on a website is biased against the PS3.

 

I wanna see ANY Sony fanfiend disclaim that like they usually do..



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krimoz911 on 07 November 2008

I think people on the ps3 side are becoming very paranoid sine R2 and GoW2 reviews starting coming out.(and it's only gonna get worse in the month kZ2 is being released.

I am personally not surprised that gears2 got the higher metacriti score, because shooters are the xbox speciality and sony is the one trying to match up, maybe M$ is simply better at delivering a shooter game.

Same for GT and forza, I think GT5 should score more than Forza3, (because the site that doesn't do this clearly will have been paid by M$ XD)

So on topic : stop being so paranoid ,who would compare games based solely on screenshots anyway.(still I am not  sure about eurogamer though)



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gebx on 07 November 2008

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Gamespot is biased! It's also part of CNET.com and guess what - so is Metacritic!!!

So we now know that both Gamespot and Metacritic have a secret agenda against the PS3.

Thankfully gamerankings.com isn't part of CNET... oh wait... ..oh NOES!! gamerankings.com is also part of CNET.. WTF??

The CNET network is 360 biased? This is very troubling... lets dig deeper and see who owns CNET.com - CBS!

Of course it all makes sense!! We all know that CBS and Microsoft have worked together in the past, including their new announced pact to deliver interactive programming.. and guess what device they'll use?? That's right the 360!



So CBS tells its reviewing sites to show favoritism to 360 games to increase sales, so that CBS and Microsoft deliver interactive programs to your TV!


Now why would CBS party up with "evil" Microsoft and not Sony?

I know, you're probably thinking that MS Money hatted its way into CBS's pants!! but I think its a little trickier then that... I think its CBS who approached Microsoft

I think its all about the movie business.. CBS Paramount Pictures can't compete against Sony Pictures, so they're attacking Sony's gaming division to cripple the company into releasing crappier movies..

So to sum it all up!!

CBS is sabotaging PS3 reviews so that it can sell more movie tickets! Yep you heard it here first, don't be surprised if you see me on CNN!

Mystery solved, don't visit any websites. PS3 fanboys stick to your "non biased" PS3 magazine websites and ignore everything else.

Thanks for reading!



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