The Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII has been confirmed as being significantly inferior to the PS3 original, with Xbox 360 in game graphics at 1024×576/2xAA versus 1280×720/2xMSAA on the PS3; texture quality and draw distance on the Xbox also suffer degradation, far from the “identical” versions Square Enix promised.
Preliminary comparison shots of the two versions illustrate the difference:
Previously players of both versions had reported noticeable inferiority – now this appears confirmed beyond doubt.
Incidentally, after being caught releasing clearly doctored comparison shots of the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, Square Enix released some “genuine” replacements – however in a less that reassuring sign they left in a mouse cursor on several of the Xbox 360 shots, visible in the top left:
It’s not clear whether sheer carelessness or some other reason is responsible for this; in any case the reason for their initial reluctance to release genuine shots is perhaps now clear – they insisted the versions were “identical.”
To the idiot who said u can’t spot the difference between 1080p and 720p, who is a self referenced authority because of his degree or something: get your fucking eyes checked.
I don’t need a degree in Electrical ENgineering to tell the difference between 1080p and 720p. Perhaos you mean the discerning the difference between 1080i and 720p, which would indeed be a very difficult task.
But the difference be twist 1080p and 720p is enormous.
BTW my degree is in Electrical Engineering.
Superb piece of writing, well written I must say.
Can these articles just fucking die already? Every time a new multi-platform game comes out one of these pop up I could really give two jerks of a dead dogs dick about which version has barely noticeable superiority graphics wise. Early Final Fantasy games had like 5 pixels per inch and there infinitely better games than this abomination. These are just pissing contests between console fanboys, its never the same console every time so god only knows if the screen grabs they always use could be shopped to look better or worse or even taken at different resolution and graphic settings. Anyway this s♥♥t isn’t news…
those are all fake screen shots of the xbox 360 version. I have the 360 version of Final Fantasy 13 and trust me it looks nothing like those pics. the 360 version looks identical to the ps3 plus on one of those pics they were saying that there was missing foliage on the 360 version but yet I’m on that part of the game right now and I see the same foliage that the ps3 version has. those pics just proved that there fake.
You’re in denial, Bud. I have both versions and the article is of utter accuracy.
likkedd lol~ denial~~
Playing FFXIII is comparable to walking down a decorative hallway.