I don't really care that much for all the techy stuff, all that matters to me is the end result. Nothing against those that do have an interest in such.

Some people are so console-biased that their judgement is severely prejudiced on graphics.
The x360 boys held on to their belief that Gears2 was better than K2 even when MS themselves claimed that K2 was superior graphically but added that x360 was capable of similar or better.

As for graphics I deal with the here and now and U2 and K2 are the best graphics on any console as any respectable non-biased reviewer will confirm.

K4, Alan Wake etc., are the future and a few souped up videos on youtube are not the final articles (could be better or worse).

Multiplats favouring x360 in graphics is generally true.

About ten years ago I used to research this a lot, back when the PS2 and Dreamcast were coming out. But then I reached the conclusion it wasn't useful. And as time went on the huge improvements we used to see became little tiny details of improvement, no longer fun to pour attention into.

And besides, it didn't make the games more fun. The first time I really had this epiphany in a serious manner was when I played MGS1 on PlayStation after having owned a Japanese Dreamcast and a gaming PC. The game looked terrible to me, but it was awesome and very immersive.

I wonder why Sony chose the GPU that they did.

It seems that most people here on the forums reluctantly acknowledge that the GPU on the 360 is superior in a standalone sense.

Are the rumours of a dual Cell system true ? Did Sony make a late design change and assume the Cell would be use to boost the power of the GPU easily from day one.

One day all this will come out and I think it will make a great read.

Maybe it's the other way around?

nice read but its not really anything new to me. i always assumed the ps3 and 360 had different ways of pocessing their gpu. it just makes everything clearer to me now. even though graphics mean nothing to me when deciding between the two. i do prefer which version has less bugs for example, the PS3 version of alone in the dark is better than the 360 because eden games took the time out to revamp and make use of the ps3 technology. (sent via Blackberry)

@tyrannical no not all textures are compressed, and yes blu rays have slower access speed but thats the reason for the install, it takes the uncompressed textures and audio puts them on the hard drive so it doesnt have to wait,

and also Uncharted2 uses the unreal engine and naughty dog just offloaded the GPU calculations to the SPU's it just takes time changing the code, which is why i think the devs just get lazy or dont care enough, not only that but naughty dog had to use the assembly language to actually task it efficiently

Link?

great thread

That is pure speculation on your part, especially in the case of Dead Space. There is no indication at all that hardware power was the primary reason why Dead Space Extraction was an on-rail game.

summarize please..