Pure "exactly the same" on PS3, 360 Comments by Robert Purchese

system war is just competition for technology. without the war, things would become stale and there would be no need to push boundaries or go that extra mile. the fact that there is rivalry means they will always try and out do the others, which ultimately means the gamers will benefit.

the fanboy war however is a different kettle of fish, as it ultimately serves no purpose.

Once Eurogamer has put both through their clockwork uber-frame-a-tron, the PS3 version will be shown to have cancer.

@ drumbaby

aids ridden cancer?

The thing is, these quotes from devs do peeve me a bit, I mean, they're two very different hardwares so it's pretty much impossible to make a piece of software look *exactly* the same on them. Hopefully the game will be as good on both but I doubt it'll be "the same".

if you see how many people they shifted from one platform to the other it's a shame we have two platforms.
games would be much quicker out the door with only 360 or ps3 to work on.
i do hope the ps3 get's pulled quickly ;p

Exactly the same or not - gametrailers.com will still manage to do another video comparison :)

"The thing is, these quotes from devs do peeve me a bit, I mean, they're two very different hardwares so it's pretty much impossible to make a piece of software look *exactly* the same on them. Hopefully the game will be as good on both but I doubt it'll be "the same". "

True - but depends who you are. A normal non-hardcore consumer will probably see the two version as "identical" even if there's a few tearing- and framerate issues in one version :)

the fanboy war however is a different kettle of fish, as it ultimately serves no purpose.

I really don't understand either whats behind this fanboy war. Why defend one system against some other? Is it because you can afford only one? Is it because your friends have some machine and you need to buy same to "belong"?

I own Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, PSP, DS & PC. That's a lot of machines to select from. I even own couple games for different systems (Tiger 07 - X360, PS2, Wii, PSP) because they are very different from system to system.

Xbox 360 and PS3 games are really very similar, the differences there are very small.

Based on history I should be Sony fanboy. I have owned PS1, PS2 and I bought PS3 from launch as compared to X360 that I bought half a year after its release.

But no, I'm not a fanboy. I prefer each system at their own time, some machines more often, some others less often.

I'm getting carried away... It's this early morning... Need more coffee...

@MKorkia

If Jedi were here he'd call you an Xbot, regardless.

True story.

@George Roper

lol :)

He would have probably screamed it on my face when I was queueing my PS3. :)

@Gradius

There's no reason why you couldn't make a game visually identical on the two formats. You can make the same 3D code work on different architectures, you use the same assets, the same music. If you output at the same resolution and balance the colours, I bet you'd be hard pushed to tell one from another. At the end of the day, they both output coloured pixels - not magic image pixies.

Programmers do it all the time with apps on Mac and PC, which have different OSes and different architectures and use different graphics cards.

Wow, that's surprising news. As in completely not surprising. I've played a lot of multiformat games on both, and I've never come across a single game that differs between systems.

Who cares, just ship decent games. That's just what we all want.

Still looking for that reason to get my PS3 but it seems developers can site 'being the same on PS3 as 360' as an advantage of their game.

fish should be kept in tanks not kettles, not even the see through kettles.

two fish in a tank. one fish says, "so, do you know how to drive this thing?"

So does this mean that the 360 version will be crippled so the PS3 can keep up...

...Fans the flames of the fanboy war and runs away...

@Beano

"you are. A normal non-hardcore consumer will probably see the two version as "identical"

I totally agree man but then why don't the devs just say both versions will be on par/as good as each other, why this obsession with *exactly the same!* it's just a small bugbear of mine I guess :)

@Weezer

"There's no reason why you couldn't make a game visually identical on the two formats."

It depends on what type of game, yes you could make Tetris look identical on both systems but if we're talking about a game that pushes the hardware in anyway it's not so simple because both systems have different strengths, hence devs have to get around problems in different ways, leading to *slightly* different results. I think, anyway ;-)

Never even heard of this

it will be equally shit on both systems

You know, some people would argue that saying the two will be exactly the same is meant to quell the fanboy stuff, not to stoke it.

Right?