OK when the 360 launched, when it first came out, it showed some games that demonstrated it's power right off the bat! It rivalled some of the best PC graphics for a very short while. That for me was an achievement for the console but it did so at the cost of having RROD.
Now the Cell is now to benefit from the new Zego programming technique, right? Well, I'm sorry but it's just too late. All this waiting for minor graphical optimisations means that even now the PS3 is getting going, it is so far behind it will never hold the title of graphics king. For a console so hyped on it's technical abilities,let me say it again, the PS3 will never be the graphics king because right now, PC gaming is so far ahead in performance their is no contest.
Look at any multiplat, look at pc exclusives such as stalker, crysis and world in conflict. These games represent a bar that the PS3 will never reach and more specifically at HD resolutions it will definitely not meet.
By the time Zego does start to yeild performance gains, i.e. in a few more years then even more advances in cpu's and gpu's will have put pc gaming yet another generation ahead and also there will no doubt be a new Xbox of sorts to contend with, with shiney new hardware introducing a new generation of console.
So by the time you see the ps3 reach it's potential, who will it be competing against?
My point is that Sony made a big mistake of doing 2 things. They have taken their time to develop a 10 year console that will yield incremental improvements in performance over time but at the same time hyped the console to be a graphical powerhouse. You just cant do that! You can't have both, especially if you're late to the table. If it had launched the same time as the 360 then maybe, but they were too late with almost everything this generation.
A 10 year console the PS3 may well be, but the graphics king, it will never be!
DAZZER7
When the 360 launched, its graphics did not match PC's quality, thats a lie right off the bat.
Only time will tell, but if Killzone 2 IS what it looks like in screenshots, well, the graphics king the 360 might no longer be.
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