The difference between 360 and PS3 games graphically is minimal however I have yet to see a game on the 360 which looks as good as Killzone 2, Heavy Rain and even Uncharted. Alan Wake looks good but we have only seen it running on PC's so definitely cant say that looks as good as a PS3 game like Heavy Rain.

But graphics =/= good game, certainly does not hurt though :P

@ CGI

Braid pwns the PS3 in physics (Time travel OMG) and the animations of the Avatars beat anything Sony has for out of game XMB animation. So there!!!

Lots of optimistic posts about the PS3 streaking ahead graphically, though in the real world not yet the case.

Will wait till end of 2009 to see if all this PS3 graphical superiority is to become obvious in reality.

It's moot point, not mute point. Semantics matters.

@CGI-Quality

You laid out the differences pretty well actually, so I dont need to second them. For me, physics and animation are part of overall graphics quality and PS3 is potentially better than xbox 360 in that respect as it has 6 dedicated spus (out of 8, pretty flexible to use). But they are not easy to utilise unless you have deep pockets and lots of time. Only a few games (most probably only first and second party titles) will be able to utilise them as it's not financially feasable to go into such detail in development for third party developers. 7.1 sound system is even beyond geeks, but good for only the music enthusiast professionals or a very niche group per se.

The cell is a big disappointment for Sony indeed. 1 full year after MS, anything would be faster than 360's cpu anyway. And they chose the dumbest choice possible. Only Marginally or potentially faster (and potentially slower for many games), much more costly and a programming nightmare in many cases. They should've gone with a quad pc processor or something like that. Any CPU on desktop from 2006 on is faster than the cell. The graphics processor is another disaster! They came up with a worse GPU after one full year. It's really hard to come up with something not faster than 360 for a higher price after 1 year, they succeeded that. Congrats!

Ummm, the 360's Xenon GPU is significantly more powerful then the PS3's RSX. No one has seriously argued otherwise since the PS3 released.

 I know, but it really takes some decent skill to release a  console with a worse gpu but a much higher price after more than 1 year! Thats like a bad joke, and Sony did it!

Two misconceptions there:

a) Forza 2 is indeed 720p, but it's 60fps locked (it never goes below 60)

b) Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is not 1080p. It renders at 1280x1080 which is far from 1920x1080.