2 years later (sorry for posting in an old topic) but we can truthfully say that the title of this topic was correct. The reason why ps3 versions of games looked worse was due to the fact they were 360 ports. The 360 was out a year longer and much easier to develop for because the structure of the cpu was similar to that of PC. Now, the cpu of the ps3 although the same speed(3.2ghz) is twice as fast as the 360 (2 teraflops vs 1) due to the 8 or 7 core achutechture. A system is as fast as the slowest component, in the 360s case it is the cpu, the ps3 doesnt have this cpu holdback, resulting in the cpu taking the load of the gpu-eg particle effects-Killzone 2. And if you remember what the sony man siad back in 2005(aimed at the devs)-"you will have to work very hard to master the system." When games are developed specificaly for the ps3 you would have to blind not to notice the difference in graphics between the two systems. Halo 3 vs uncharted, GOW vs MGS4, Killzone 2 vs GOW2, coupled with a new truck load of exclusives coming out this year: havy rain. Uncharted 2, and the highly anticipated god of war 3. The ps3 is slowly turning into the primary developing platform, with the cut in price of the sony sdk aswell. The GPUs on both consoles are faily similar although the ps3 uses xdr ram which allows the gpu to use as much as it likes. The DVD9 is starting to show its weakness, GTA4 had to be cut down to fit it onto the disc, which also effected the ps3 version and you also have to take into account that real size of the 360 disc which developers get to use is 7.5gb because of microsofts encription system. Take a look what John Carmack of Id Software (the guy who basicly created the fps), has to say about developing on both systems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qppLjwqkiU The current sales stand at: ps3-22million----360-29million theres not much in it, concidering the 360 has been out a year longer ands thats my view, call me a fan boy or whatever because i dont care.(i game on my sexy pc :P)
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