Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 Graphics “Inferior to PS3”

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Players given the opportunity to playtest the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Final Fantasy XIII side-by-side have been reporting the in-game graphics of the Xbox 360 version are noticeably inferior to those of the PS3.

Square Enix’s marketing activities, in the form of a touring bus, have given US fans the chance to play both:

From a real person:

I went to the Sunnyvale one today and got to play the 360 version. I am so very disappointed to see the difference in textures and detail of the 360 version vs. the PS3. =( I know it’s DVD vs. BD, but I didn’t think it would be that noticeable. My boyfriend told me it’s fine if I wanna stick with the 360 version, but he’s going for the PS3 one now.

From a game journalist:

Both PS3s and 360s were being used to show off the game, which was great as I was able to see both versions running side-by-side. As expected, the 360 version was noticeably less crisp than its PS3 counterpart, but it still ran nicely.

Additionally, the developers recently made an interesting admission:

It was easy to port to the Xbox. Porting to the PS3 is harder. The PS3 has more processing power but you have to do it properly.

The only difference reported previously was that the movies and sound on the Xbox 360 would be substantially lower quality in order to cram the game onto 3 DVDs – in-game graphical differences were said to be absent.

International fans planning to purchase the Xbox version are understandably dismayed by this, although at least it seems to demonstrate the game was not intentionally crippled on the PS3 in order to accommodate the port.

The US release is in March.


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    Avatar of Shi nai weaboo
    Comment by Shi nai weaboo
    10:55 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    This isn't particularly surprising though

    this game is turning out to be such a disappointment

    it too bad the focus too much on graphics instead of gameplay now and they can't even do that right =C

    Comment by Schrobby
    04:01 01/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Obi-wan looks dismayed at the FF XIII game in his hands.

    The fail level is high in this one.

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    Comment by obro
    10:59 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    well honesty do people care now when FF13 has been given so much hate?

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    Comment by Myballz
    11:03 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Aleast now Sony has something to brag about.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:11 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    What about Batman?

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    Comment by El Chaos
    11:30 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    You mean Arkham Asylum? Did you see the comparison? Here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/face-off-batman-arkham-asylum-face-off

    Spoiler: overall it's the weakest version of the bunch (go figure!), but hey, you get to play as the Joker!!

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    Comment by Niwa
    12:08 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Anon you do realize that Arkham is helluva lot better FF13? doesn't matter which

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    Comment by El Chaos
    12:36 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Besides that, PS3's Arkham Asylum is the weakest of all versions of the game... oh yeah, but you can play as the Joker, right...

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:15 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Off topic

    Can you explain this?

    http://www.lensoftruth.com/?p=14110

    Batman was enhanced with Nvidia graphics card after all.

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    Comment by Artefact

    Back on topic - B:AA was amazing, but the Japanese version only sold 10,000 copies last I saw. Even Square's CEO praised it. Japan's gaming market appears to be in a death spiral...

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:33 01/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    or Batman's just not that popular there...

    'cept for the movies

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:38 01/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Actually even the movies aren't that popular.

    The Dark Knight bombed in Japan.

    http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/08/28/the-dark-knight-bombs-in-japan/ \

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    Comment by Dirty_Dingus008
    09:12 01/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Trailing right off the track again - Reading that article, I find it interesting how most hollyweird comic book movie fair so poorly outside of one being Spider-man.

    Then I remembered that 'ol Spidey had himself a tv show back in the '70s and to this day still runs on a few channels in Japan. If the old folks still remembered the show they saw back then, anything spidey was sure to draw them in to watch it! So when the first movie came out, the old folks was a shoe in, with the younger being drawn in with the romance and spectacle.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:13 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yes, they can brag that their version of a shitty game is less shitty. Yay!

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:27 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    i lol'ed

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:56 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    You mean they couldn't brag about their:

    - superior hardware (Not talking about graphics here (although Uncharted 2 proves those are superior too). I'm talking about blu-ray, built in wifi, better HD support, lower failure rate, and a quieter system, among other things).

    - better exclusives (I'll admit, 360 had the better lineup until 2009 happened. Then 360 had an assload of it's exclusives jump ship and only released 6 exclusives in '09 to replace those lost compared to the 16 exclusives Sony released - and those are only counting first party releases. Not 3rd party exclusives like Demon's Souls or non-beta games like Sigma 2).

    - free online (Live has a better online service but it'll cost you $50/yr. PSN is free and all you really miss out on is Party Chat (which, granted, party chat is amazing, but not worth $50)).

    - and the fact that they don't nickel and dime you by forcing you to buy overpriced first party accessories? (I paid $40 for a 500gig Hard Drive in my PS3. Why do I have to pay $100 for a 120gig Hard Drive for my 360?).

    Funny, 'cuz those are the reasons I use my PS3 more than my 360 now. I'm sure everyone will thumbs down this 'cuz, "Oh hey, look! Sony fanboy! LOL!" but everything posted here is the truth - Other than your preference of exclusives, nothing I stated was an opinion. It's all facts. 360's hardware is worse than the PS3s, online service isn't worth $50 when the competition gives it away for free, and MS totally rips you off for accessories.

    And after MS only released 3 retail exclusives in 09 (ODST, Halo Wars, and Forza 3) and only 6 altogether (Shadow Complex, Splosion Man, and Trials HD for Live), they really didn't do a good job at having "all those games!" 360 fanboys brag about, especially after they lost so many of their exclusives after their contracts with 3rd party devs expired.

    The only 3rd party love the system got was GTA4 DLC (which is coming to PS3 now - look it up) and L4D2 which is only "exclusive" if you count "not on the PS3" as exclusive. Meanwhile, Sony *alone* put out 16 exclusives for the PS3 and then had 3rd party exclusives like Sigma 2, Demon's Souls, Critter Crunch, and others.

    So yeah, keep shit talking Sony about how they "finally" have something to brag about. Meanwhile, I'll be playing Heavy Rain, MAG, God of War 3, Gran Turismo 5, White Knight Chronicles, and about 15 other exclusives lined up for the PS3 this year. But hey, at least the 360 has better anti-aliasing on like 10 multiplatform games! You still got that going for you big guy.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:16 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    um... the only because the 360 didnt had as much exclusives '09 doesnt mean that the exclusives it had already are gone and forgotten. The 360 still has a better lineup than the PS3 - or lets say they're finally equal. Matter of taste anyways.
    That's actually a fact you've forgotten :/

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:19 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    amen

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:23 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    all 360 ever had was halo and gears. gears is great. mass effect came out on pc. halo is a way past overrated. ODST was just more of the same and the halo RTS sucked. now microsoft cant get off halo's $@#^ and make new IP's, so have fun playing another 100 halo games. besides that what other great exclusive 360 games are u talking about... kameo? lol

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:46 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    @ anon 14:16, I didn't forget it. I said everything was fact *EXCEPT* your taste in exclusives. Depending on what you prefer, you may find the 360 to have slightly better exclusive titles. The main point I made when talking about exclusives was that is was no longer, "360 has so many exclusives!" and "PS3 ain't got no games!". The 2 arguments people always try to bring up which are now completely irrelevant.

    Fact is, a lot of the 360's exclusives are kinda crappy. Now, I'm not saying Gears and Halo suck. I'm talking about all the crap that kinda sifts to the bottom of 360 exclusives but pads their numbers. Shit like Full Auto and Rumble Roses XX. And when it comes to GOOD 360 exclusives, it seems 360 fanboys count "any games that aren't on PS3" on their list. Mass Effect 1 & 2, Gears of War, L4D 1 & 2 . . . None of these are 360 exclusives - They're "not on the PS3" exclusives.

    So when you get down to games that are on the 360 and the 360 alone, you're not left with a lot. Halo 3/ODST, Gears 2, Lost Odyssey, Ace Combat 6, Forza, PGR, Crackdown . . . And I'm talking about good, AAA games only on the 360. There's been some more high budget releases on the 360, but they fall flat and suck: Magna Carta 2, Infinite Undiscovery, Banjoe Kazooie N&Bs, among others.

    Everything else worth mentioning - Bioshock, Ninja Gaiden 2, Braid, Castle Crashers, etc - all went multiplatform, and other notable "exclusives" as mentioned above, are available on the PC.

    People's memory only seems to recall the state of things when they happened. Did the 360 have a ridiculously good lineup in 07? Yes. Was it still respectable in 08? Yes. Is it the best exclusive lineup still in 09? No. With the majority of their AAA lineup also available on the PC and a lot of their backlog jumping ship, it doesn't leave the current 360 with a lot.

    Compacted with this is the fact that many console owners consider multiplatform games, to belong to their "primary" console (i.e., the console they use the most). So when you say, "Uhm, the PS3 has more 80%+ reviewed exclusives than the 360. Statistically they have the better lineup." They still say, "PS3 just ain't got that many games! My 360's got Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3, Assassin's Creed. What's PS3 got? Uncharted? Killzone? I need more than that." etc. as though those games are only for that system.

    I'm merely speaking the truth (statistically) about the 2 consoles. Yet if you defend Sony then, "ZOMG! Thumbs down the Sony fanboy! LOL!" 'cuz obviously saying anything positive about the PS3 and negative about the 360 makes you a fanboy.

    As I wrote in the past, the only reason the 360 is succeeding 1/2 as well as it is, is simply because they launched it cheap and people decided to stick around because of people they knew on live and their gamerscore. If people didn't WANT the 360 to be superior in their minds because of ties they have with the system that makes them feel obligated to prefer it, then I think people would be seeing a lot more clearly.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:44 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    ace combat 6
    banjo kazooie
    vesperia
    fable 2
    lost odyssey

    and these are better with a gamepad
    ninja blade
    mass effect 1-2

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:19 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    this is why these stupid xbots fail so hard, I lmao at that game lineup.

    stupid kids, leave figuring out which console is better to people who know what they are talking about.

    btw PS3 crushes the 3fixme.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:43 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wait, since when is Vesperia 3fixme exclusive?

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    Comment by TehBoringOne
    08:13 01/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Since Namco said they have no plans to release it outside Japan... So for the rest of the world, Vesperia is a 360 exclusive...

    Unless you and many others start bitching at Namco...

    I'd do it too, but I haven't been much of a fan of the Tales series for a while...

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    Comment by Myballz
    18:01 01/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I played Mass Effect 1 and 2 on Xbox 360.So be lucky you guys get to play Mass Effect 2 on PS3 and lets hope It doesn't have any Problems. Already, Mass Effect 2 is selling more then 2 Million copys.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:02 02/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    lol ninja blade

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:36 14/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Sony already plans to start charging for online one way or another. Now that more than 10 people own one, the PSN is being crushed under the weight and Sony has to toss in mounds of money to make it work.

    PSN wont be free after 2010.

    Exclusives... Sure, the PS3 ones look good, but most of them are boring, unimaginative and generally kinda lame.

    You get interactive 'Cant lose unless you're quadrapalegic' Interactive Indiana Jones and then some awesome Dragon's Lair year 2010... yay?

    Built in wifi... Ya, G wifi. Lulz. I'll pay my 100$ to get my wireless N set up and running. PS3 will have to do it sooner or later too.

    Hard drives.. Cant switch those out in the slim. Gonna have to pay out the nose for those soon too.

    Sony made a lot of 'mistakes' in their initial design, in that it allowed people to add too much, and get too much for free. You'll see them flip that around and start charging for everything just like Microsoft. Of course, then the fanboys will just go on about how Sony 'cares' about them or something stupid. It's a business.

    Finally: "I'll be playing Heavy Rain, MAG, God of War 3, Gran Turismo 5, White Knight Chronicles"

    Heavy Rain is terrible. I'm sorry, if you like that kind of thing, you have at it. MAG is dull and repetitive, and no where near as good as socom or Planetside. GoW3 will be nice, but inferior to Bayonetta to anyone but the simple or the fanboys, as the system is just far more complex mechanically. GT5... ya, it'll be the same as GT.. GT2.. .GT3... GT4... ..Oh wait, all of them. The mechanics never change. WKC? Holy shit that game is bad. All these years of hype and it's terrible. The online function is the only thing that saves it from utter terrible-ness.

    360 gets /console exclusives/. The PC market is incredibly small comparative to what it used to be, and especially compared to modern console numbers. So yes, that L4D? still an exclusive. Because its a console.

    And on that note, I'll place Alan Wake vs Heavy Rain, I'll put just about any game on the 360 vs WKC (Vesperia alone blows it out of the water. But you could choose a lesser RPG if you want.) I'll choose Halo: ODST or Reach over MAG any day. Or, you know, just load up planetside and play some 300 man games or something. You know, what its been doing since like 10 years ago.

    Dunno, fanboy ignorance is amusing, but still ignorant, and still incredibly odd. PS3 and 360 offer different things, but where the PS3 is /now/ and where it was when it launched are completely different. The Slim does not allow HDD replacement like the old discontinued models. Sony cannot afford free PSN. Both companies are ramping up their lineup (And honestly 2009 was poor for MS exclusive wise, but I'd wager its mostly because the PS3 has been such a non-challenge for so many years that they were getting lazy.)

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:53 16/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Do some research. The slim's hard drive is interchangeable.

    How is paying $100 for wifi better than paying nothing?

    PSN is still free....

    You are right though. Your fanboy ignorance is pretty amusing.

    If it wasn't for the fact that Sarah Palin might be patrolling these posts, I'd call you an R word.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:39 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Um god of war 3 O_o. uncharted 2 >_<. and to all the haters little big planet.

    psst if you do like LBP try bomb field by computer virus (i didnt make the level) its hella fun with 4 players trust me.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:06 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    You mean besides the fact that they crushed 360 in japan, and outsold it during the holidays in th the U.S.? If you ask me, Sony has quite a bit to brag about at this point.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:14 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Nobody cares except the FF/sony fanboys.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:23 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    No shit.

    Sony fanboys look for shit like this. FFXIII was labeled a shitty game after release in Japan, who cares about it...right?

    WRONG.

    ..so the PS3 graphics are better then the 360s, NOW it's something to consider and compare and NOW it's a topic the fagboy Sony fans want to distribute. Pathetic.

    Enjoy your graphically superior shitty game..

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:25 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    hypocrite. all the 360 fanboys been doing the same shit on every other article that says 360 is superior to ps3 version. at least man up and admit that 360 fanboys are as bad as the sony fanboys lol.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:47 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    The thing is, if you are going to buy a piece of shit, wouldn't you like the prettier piece of shit? Yeah, it's still shit, but at least it looks better than the other one.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:14 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    why do u need to buy a piece of shit? do u have the need?

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    Comment by TehBoringOne
    08:50 01/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    No, I wouldn't buy that piece of shit.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:07 03/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    That's what I've been saying about the shitbox360 all along :P

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:35 01/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    The facts not wether the games better on not. THats up to the deleloper. The point is that PS3 is graphically superior to the Xbox.

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    Comment by Lucifer
    11:16 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    After so much hype about this game and much detail has been revealed. I for one am not getting this game at all. The franchise of this series is pretty much dead to me.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:27 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Same for me. Squere-Enix would be better off by not making new Final Fantasy games but just games with its own title. FF has lost its value for me a long time ago (even though I got into it with FFX).

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:37 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    X is a long time ago? I lol'd

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:47 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Final Fantasy X was released in 2001 it's almost been a decade. So X is a long time ago. Unless along time for you is 15+ years.

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    Comment by Yoshii-kun
    12:28 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Agreed. Quite alot of flops recently with their series.

    Revive FF7 with Cloud and we'll say something completely different =D (oh yea, they did >.>)

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:46 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    No FFVII remake for you.
    Get over it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:54 02/02/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    No.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:30 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wouldn't be suprised if I saw people like you lining up at launch day.

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    Comment by Lucifer
    13:12 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I've never lined up for anything my dear anonymous, not even for a game. I don't desperately need to buy a game ahead to impress people. Troll better next time, ok?

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:34 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    I have the unrelased "US" FFXIII, it's the last build, probably the one you guys will play, I got both 360 and PS3.

    One thing is for sure, rest assured the Dub is very good and took lots of time from the dev crew. I hope you guys enjoy our final product!

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:19 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    it matters? why do people go so hardcore about graphics
    Its gameplay should matter more

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:28 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Because people don't play games anymore they play consoles, see the hate the wii gets, I will admit it doesn't have many good games, but there are a handful of fun ones and anyone that's "hardcore" immediately flames someone who says anything good about it and calls them a casual, revealing their gigantic faggottry.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:24 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    nah, they just hate that a lower console is having better sale numbers than their fav console...since day 1

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:43 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    Well,if the only thing that make FFXIII good doesn't matter,then i don't think you'll buy the game...

    scenario:meh
    music:meh (they didn't even include the crystal theme ffs!)
    char:we got a bitch,a lesbian with a spear,a stupid loli,a hero-wannabe-failatvertythingtho,a angst teenager and a guy with a chocobo in his afro
    battle system:copy paste and make everything seem new by adding some tweak to it=AWESOME NEW BATTLE SYSTEM NEVER SEEN BEFORE OMG THIS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!....not
    explora--...oh wait,there's none ahahah!
    graphic:nothing to say here,it's pretty,aaaaaaand that's all.

    of course this is just what i (and almost everyone who isn't fanboy enough to worship the game after playing it...) think,you might still enjoy it...

    they should have made a movie instead of making a game,it's the xenosaga syndrome all over again and at least xenosaga had city...

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    Comment by Sithreis
    12:15 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    It'd be hard to enjoy a movie if the quality was grainy with poor camera work, it'd be hard to enjoy a book if the handwriting was sloppy, why is there so much scrutiny when the same is demanded of video games, another form of entertainment?

    Even if the graphics aren't striving to be groundbreaking, it's no excuse for them to be well below par either.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:47 31/01/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

    because people throw hissy fits and fanboys fight over the least important little details like graphics

    to all the people who think graphics come before anything else: go play a fucking fmv game from back when cd-rom first came out. most realistic graphics in the world(actual recorded video)
    the gameplay consists of pushing the right buttons at the right time to not die






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