Action-packed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV has been revealed to have hugely degraded graphics on the PS3 as compared to the PC, with textures a quarter the size and the usual pathetically low resolution – fortunately PS3 gamers need not worry, as Square Enix assures them “You won’t even notice.”
From a developer interview with the producer Hiromichi Tanaka:
Q. Can you enjoy both PC and PS3 versions at the same quality?
A. They don’t really look all that different. There’s no “3D Surround” [Nvidia multimonitor 3D gaming], of course. The textures are a quarter the size, and the resolution halved, but you won’t really notice.
He demonstrates the multimonitor in action:
Whilst unlikely to please PS3 gamers all that greatly, PC gamers can at least be assured their version will not be graphically crippled for the sake of the inferior graphical capabilities of a mere console.
haters gonna hate
NOTHING beats cost-value for console gaming, less than a 500$ (a LOT less if you wait a little) investement gets you 6 years of gaming easily, on PC you got to expend four times that for maybe 2 years of “high end” gaming (sure is a litte harder to get free games for consoles than it is for PC but NO ONE HERE pirates games… right?)
Wada’s an asshole.
This is why Nintendo has made it so big over the past few years.
Graphics and resolutions are rapidly getting to a point where they don’t matter anymore. Anything beyond 1920×1080 is rendunant; people can’t even see that well.
I think people understand this, even if its on a subconscious level.
Finally, something that makes sense, I mean sure you can program a person so detailed you can see the skin cells, but what does it matter if it’s impossible to see?
It’s funny that there hasn’t been any screenshots or anything for PS3 so how the hell can people compare this? I know that PC version will look better but this seems fake. Even I could do that with PhotoShop.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~ *Takes off glasses, blinking in astonishment* SUBARASHII!!
But yeah, the two versions probably won’t really matter. Some people may not have a high end pc, so the ps3 would be an easy substitute to get nearly the same experience.