I am pissed off that Playstation exclusives such as Grant Theft Auto, Devil May Cry and Resident Evil are being released on the 360. It absolutely cripple's the PS3's ability to use the BluRay disc's space to it's full potential. The 360 is still limited to it's DVD discs, and money hungry companies like Rockstar and Capcom want to sell as many copies of their product as they can so they limit their games graphically and length-wise to fit on a DVD disc so it can be released on the 360 as well as the PS3.
Games like Grand Theft Auto IV will seriously suffer from this as they will not be as graphically impressive and as long as next-gen games trully should be. You will see the typical GTA stuff, traffic dissapearing, not enough pedestrians/cars on the streets to make a true busy looking city, recycled car models and textures and voices. All of these issues are DVD related. (except the number of cars/peds thats just the hardware's ability to render, I know that. But the PS3 does house faster hardware so it will impact the graphics too) The fact that more content cannot be fit onto the DVD disc. The PS3 has such huge potential for really amazing games to be released in the future, timeless classics like Resident Evil, but since they are planned for the 360 as well this cripples the potential of really amazing next-gen games to be released any time soon for the PS3.
I am not saying the 360 is a bad machine. I think it's good. But with that said I am put off that so many Playstation exlcusives are being dumbed down as future "next-gen" games because of a multiplatform releases and the DVD limitations on the 360 causing this to happen. And everyone is fighting about this right now too: Which console is faster, which version of the game has better graphics and so and so forth. Who cares? What's important is the games and how neighboring consoles affect the other console's ability to reach it's full potentional. I think that eventually if the 360 will stay in the market, that they should split the game library up at that point. Just like the Wii having it's own library of games apart from all the other consoles. The 360 has hit it's peak of potential, and theres nothing wrong with that. The PS2 is still releases great games and it's hit it's peak years ago and it's a great console. But games are and will suffer. Devil May Cry 4 has taken a hit because of this, it's extremely short in my opinion. And even though I think it's a great game I think it could have been so much more.
I am glad that games like Gran Turismo 5 are staying exclusive to the PS3, obviously because it's going to be published by Sony. But this is a prime example of what I'm talking about. Gran Turismo 5 will feature true 1080p resolutions, amazingly sharp graphics (at that resolution no less) and 700 fully fleshed extremely detailed cars! There is no way that you can fit that kind of content on a DVD. And I'm glad that this title will work out as a trully next-gen game.
This is all just my opinion, not saying this is how everyone feels or should feel :)
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