By Alex Zaharov-Reutt Tuesday, 14 November 2006 Page 1 of 2
The Xbox 360 has been out for a year already, with developers having had plenty of time to get used to programming for it. Now the PS3 launches, with most developers only having PS3 dev-kits to create games with. While the PS3?s graphics will improve in future games, there?s one game out there that definitely looks better on Xbox 360. Is this bad news for Sony? zMSgetJS("adsize=300x250&position=island2");
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While we?re yet to play with or even see a PS3 in Australia, reports from PS3 owners are just starting to filter their way to the web, with plenty of reviews and head-to-head comparisons yet to come.
Our final judgement is being reserved until we get some hands-on PS3 action for ourselves, but at least one game available for both platforms looks far better on the Xbox 360 than it does on the PS3. The game? Ridge Racer.
Available as Ridge Racer 6 for the Xbox 360 and Ridge Racer 7 for the PS3, the PS3 version is said to run very fast, with an improved online gameplay experience over the Xbox 360 version.
But if you take a look at the side-by-side comparison of the graphics at the GameBrink.com website, the Xbox 360 version, even though released earlier than the PS3 version (which has really only been available for the past couple of days), has better, darker colours, with more detail in the road surface and in on screen graphics.
Update: It seems the volume of traffic this site has had sent to it from multiple sources on the Internet, including this article, has caused GameBrink.com's site to crash. No doubt it will be back up soon enough, so check back later to see the difference in the graphics for yourself. Apologies.
For anyone expecting the PS3 to simply have better graphics right out of the box for the latest games, this must come as somewhat of a shock.
Part of the reason is that which we covered earlier ? more developers have had more time with the Xbox 360 and simply know how to program it better. The Xbox 360 is also known to be a much easier games console to develop for than the PS3, which some developers have described as a much harder system to develop new games for.
This is because the PS3 has a radically new processor inside which will take developers time to learn to fully harness the power of, and when they do, the Xbox 360 had better look out ? although Xbox 360 games development and graphics advances will hardly be standing still, waiting for a PS3 knockout ? there?ll be graphical advancements on the Xbox 360 too.
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The Xbox 360 has been out for a year already, with developers having had plenty of time to get used to programming for it. Now the PS3 launches, with most developers only having PS3 dev-kits to create games with. While the PS3?s graphics will improve in future games, there?s one game out there that definitely looks better on Xbox 360. Is this bad news for Sony? zMSgetJS("adsize=300x250&position=island2");
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While we?re yet to play with or even see a PS3 in Australia, reports from PS3 owners are just starting to filter their way to the web, with plenty of reviews and head-to-head comparisons yet to come.
Our final judgement is being reserved until we get some hands-on PS3 action for ourselves, but at least one game available for both platforms looks far better on the Xbox 360 than it does on the PS3. The game? Ridge Racer.
Available as Ridge Racer 6 for the Xbox 360 and Ridge Racer 7 for the PS3, the PS3 version is said to run very fast, with an improved online gameplay experience over the Xbox 360 version.
But if you take a look at the side-by-side comparison of the graphics at the GameBrink.com website, the Xbox 360 version, even though released earlier than the PS3 version (which has really only been available for the past couple of days), has better, darker colours, with more detail in the road surface and in on screen graphics.
Update: It seems the volume of traffic this site has had sent to it from multiple sources on the Internet, including this article, has caused GameBrink.com's site to crash. No doubt it will be back up soon enough, so check back later to see the difference in the graphics for yourself. Apologies.
For anyone expecting the PS3 to simply have better graphics right out of the box for the latest games, this must come as somewhat of a shock.
Part of the reason is that which we covered earlier ? more developers have had more time with the Xbox 360 and simply know how to program it better. The Xbox 360 is also known to be a much easier games console to develop for than the PS3, which some developers have described as a much harder system to develop new games for.
This is because the PS3 has a radically new processor inside which will take developers time to learn to fully harness the power of, and when they do, the Xbox 360 had better look out ? although Xbox 360 games development and graphics advances will hardly be standing still, waiting for a PS3 knockout ? there?ll be graphical advancements on the Xbox 360 too.
So what about other PS3 games, and what about the graphical future of both consoles, and that of the Wii? Read onto the next page for more....