If you're actually playing the game, none of this would be apparent because the backdrop of the game regularly turns into a blur of carnage and wrecked cars. The PlayStation 3 version of Vegas 2 lacks good lighting, forgets about normal mapping, and appears to have slightly lower resolution textures. The golden dragon is probably the most obvious example of normal mapping, but the issue pops up everywhere from the card tables to the carpet.
And of course, the lights provided by the lamps don't look anything alike. The Xbox provides lighting with deep dark and overbrights, whereas the PlayStation 3 has simple lighting of uniform intensity.
Need For Speed Pro Street Need for Speed Pro Street turns the usually informal racing series into a more, well, professional affair, with actual racing circuits, point systems, and racing events.
Although the game may have taken a more professional stance, the graphics didn't exactly follow. The game doesn't look eye-poppingly great on either of the consoles, but the PlayStation 3 looks decidedly worse. The PlayStation 3 version comes with lazy shadows, fewer onscreen elements, and--in what seems to be the theme of the article--a blurrier look.
You'll find shadows in both games, but the PS3 version doesn't bother to completely render the object's shadow. The sides of the track on the first set of images also lack many small details such as shrubbery. Madden NFL 08 In a way, sports-franchise games have it easy. They build the game once and tweak for the next release. From a screenshot perspective, the differences between the PlayStation 3 and Xbox versions border on negligible.
Aside from a marginally blurrier look on the PlayStation 3, the games look virtually identical. The players have similar shirt and pant folds, and the shadows match up completely. However, the Xbox is considerably smoother in motion, given that it has nearly double the frame rate. The PlayStation 3 version of the game is more than playable, but the definitely edges it out. Conclusion After going through another eight games, we've found a few trends that follow both of these consoles around.
Outside of Rainbow Six Vegas 2, our findings didn't show any drastic differences in image quality between the two consoles--nothing compared to what we found when we compared first-generation games in our original comparison feature. However, in the same games, the PlayStation 3 sometimes comes ahead with better shadowing and antialiasing.
Games on the PS3 do tend to be blurrier than their Xbox counterparts, but the PlayStation 3 games can look just as good as the Xbox games when developers put some effort into it, as is evident with both Grand Theft Auto IV and Burnout Paradise. Overall, the PlayStation 3 outputs visuals that are either on par with the Xbox or only slightly behind. Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Accessories for the PS3 include wireless controllers, the Playstation Eye camera, headsets and a motion controller named Playstation Move.
Accessories for the Xbox include a webcam, headsets for chatting, dance mats and Gamercize for exercise, and its motion-control system, Kinect. Its features include PlayStation Plus, a subscription service that gives early access to game betas, demos and premium downloadable content, the PlayStation Store, where players can buy downloadable content, and online gaming with other players.
The Network has over 90 million registered users. The Xbox uses Xbox Live, an online gaming service that is available both free and for a subscription. It allows users to join message boards and access the Marketplace to download purchased or promotional content. Users can also download classic games from the Xbox Live Arcade. Xbox Live has over 40 million users, and players can connect using their high speed cable or DSL internet connection.
Bestselling games for the PS3 include Grand Turismo 5 7. Xbox also has Minecraft. Share this comparison:. If you read this far, you should follow us:. Diffen LLC, n. I've tried both. They're even for the most part. My ps3 just gets used more. Xbox Better price, more of your friends probably have one. Ps3: Free internet multiplayer, plays blu rays. Funny how every xbox fanboy uses the fact that we got hacked big time.
I'm sorry that we got hacked by the same people who hacked into government databases. Xbox couldn't be hacked by those people could they? They didn't attempt. Wolfenstein is a bit more blurry on PS3. But that is not a problem compared to the frame-rate. The performance is worse and less responsive on PS3 than Xbox , and this is due to the decisions made by the developer. On Xbox the goal is to maintain 30FPS under any circumstance: while the PS3 version has framerate drops when the rendering situation is complicated, on Xbox tearing makes an appearance.
Lag on Xbox is much less noticeable than on PS3, but at the expense of image integrity that suffers from excessive tearing. You can get an idea by taking a look at the performance analysis we did at Digital Foundry on the Microsoft console version. Anyway, the idea that idTech 4 is a thing of the past is wrong: Brink, from Bethesda, also uses an improved version of idTech 4 and it was one of the most spectacular games we could see at last gamescom.
Wolfenstein is an average game with average performance on both consoles, with some pros and cons for each version. Which one to choose is pure personal choice: frame-rate and response speed versus visual integrity. The visual aspect seemed new, different and the performance on both platforms very similar.
Where the game was limited was in the destruction model: although it worked quite well offering an environment that could be almost completely destroyed, the scenarios followed predictable patterns that ruined the illusion.
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