Evening Reading

by Garnett Lee, Feb 18, 2011 5:00pm PST

This is one of those three-day holiday weekends with signature sporting events here in the United Stated. The NBA makes a weekend out of the midseason break with the Rookie Challenge tonight, 3-pt and Slam Dunk Contests tomorrow night, and then the All-Star game Sunday. NASCAR starts the season with its "The Great American Race", the Daytona 500.

Seems to me a couple of games missed out on their chance be part of the weekend's festivities. Bulletstorm and Killzone 3 both come out next week, but plenty of people would have enjoyed making their weekend out of either of them. Granted, it's not an issue outside the US, but if either had released this past week...well, it's hard to beat a three-day weekend and a new game. Eh, maybe it's for the best; it just means more time for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and catching up on all the other games I want to play.

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im wondering if anyone can help answer this for me. All this gen I have noticed that Most reviews, Previews, Dev Demos, gameplay footage before release, and etc. for multiplatform games seems to ALWAYS be teh 360 version. Does anyone know why this is? I mean, that dosent give me much confidence in the PS3 version if all they are ever showing before release is 360 footage. And this goes for 90 percent or so of multiplatform games.

My question is, if the differences in multiplatform arent really existent anymore like alot of industry people like Garnett say, then why are the devs still only showing 360 footage before release? Is it indicative of the quality of the PS3 version? or something completely different?

Feb 18, 2011 11:25pm PST

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im wondering if anyone can help answer this for me. All this gen I have noticed that Most reviews, Previe... : VeshDrown
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  They could be putting their best foot forward (looks/plays the best), they could be putting their first f... : Endymion_
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    But it really dosent make me confident in the PS3 version, which is probaly gonna be the version i would ... : VeshDrown
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      And the fact that this is happening with pretty much every multiplatform game horrifies me. : VeshDrown
      
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      Even if they're just saving bandwidth? Why not just get a gamefly thing going on if you need to try the o... : Endymion_
      
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      But its happening with every multiplat pretty much, so im pretty much gonna be doing that all the time. A... : VeshDrown
      
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      Well hey. I don't know that it's a bandwidth thing, but I do know that Microsoft hosts everything for the... : Endymion_
      
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      im mainly worried that its indicative of the quality of the PS3 version. and that fact its so widespread ... : VeshDrown
      
      because people wouldn't know that it's the worse version until both are released at retail. Really though... : Prozium
      
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      Let me give you a hint. If its multiplatorm, it looks better and has a higher framerate on the 360. You... : Lucy Labia
      
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      Final Fantasty XIII begs to differ. : lcizzle
      
      It's begging by itself, pretty much. : TrptJim
      
      Eh, I've seen both consoles have cross platform games which both shine and fail depending on which consol : Volatus32x
      
      Pretty true. For the longest time PS3 ports had worse textures and framerates. This still occurs, but i... : kingdepork
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  Maybe it has the do with the devkits/tools of the consoles and the ease of use of one over the other. I t... : Prozium
  - So its probaly not indicative of the quality of the PS3 probaly with most of them? : VeshDrown
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  From a marketing perspective, I would think it's because the Xbox 360 install base is larger. But it coul... : Mmmmmoo
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    its only larger by about 3 million. : VeshDrown
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  Because the PS3 is a fucking joke. Shitty hardware, developer unfriendly, hype machine.. Sony deserves to... : edgewise
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  The 360 version looks better and more people own 360 and more people in their target market probably own ... : Lucy Labia
  - So your basicaly confirming that Multiplatform devs are lazy assholes? : VeshDrown
- It's because the 360 version of games tend to look a bit better : klearlyunseen
- The PS3 is the Sega Saturn of this generation. : lcizzle
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  It tends to be easier to develop on the 360, at least in my experience, so you're going to see a lot of companies use the 360 as the "lead" sku, and then have someone in or outside of the company port it to the ps3. It doesn't mean the ps3 is going to look better or worse, it just means it's a bit harder to develop on.
  
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  It tends to be easier to develop on the 360, at least in my experience, so you're going to see a lot of c... : sammyl
- I would say mainly because there is a larger install base in America. You are right that most multipl... : gibolas1234
- lol, look at all the trolls saying its a bad syestem. Pretty sad. : VeshDrown

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