Mafia II “Hugely Degraded on PS3”

I dont even notice a difference

... Wait lemme put my glasses on...

Ah now I see it

The grass is always greener on the other side of the... Xbox?!

Wait, XBox got a superior version, not PS3? Isn't PS3 supposed to be able to run a more powerful game than all the current consoles?

@TNinja: Yes, and you only have to take a glance at Killzone 2 or Uncharted 2 for proof of that. Unfortunately, a console is only capable of what a developer optimizes it for. PS3 has no problems handling games like Bayonetta or (in this case) Mafia II just as well, if not better, than the 360, but when you have a shoddy development team that doesn't optimize the game properly, the quality suffers because of it.

Clearly the problem there is their gardener, not the consoles.

too much work for them perhaps

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the... Xbox?!"

Wait... don't you mean RED?

Oh yeah... Xbox 360 Slim... now it's green.

Ok then.

The grass is greener on the 360 because the PS3 is black and therefore can't maintain high standards.

EA had the same problems porting many of their multi-platform games (I used to work there). While the 360 was extremely easy to develop for using their pre-existing Windows run PCs, the PS3 and the cell processor are comparatively very difficult to develop on requiring specific dev kits and a programming architecture that's much larger and quite convoluted.

So, for the most part, the programmers would design everything on the 360 and then shoddily port it over to the ps3 resulting in reduced quality.

Although the PS3 hardware is superior, the development of software is more difficult and requires greater depth of understanding and more resources. Companies love profits, and when they have the option of doing something cheaper and faster nine times out of ten that's exactly what they'll do.

You can't site exclusives as a testimony to how great the ps3 is because for all we know the xbox would run it better. That is like saying the ps3 can't handle Gears 3 or Halo reach.

Only real comparisons are done with multiplatform and in that aspect the ps3 nearly always comes out short.

thats like saying alan wake at 540p is = to uncharted 2 at 720p

just saying all of the good looking ps3 exclusives are 720p

360 games how ever mostly below 720p

ps3 does 3d with a res drop that is equal to 360s subhd games

and it renders it twice

@Jeedwi: then why don't they use the cryengine 3, which is already perfectly optimized for all the platforms?

well, looking from the console's each specs.. XBOX 360 got the upper hand in GPU, XBOX 360 uses GPU from ATI which is bellieved has more vibrant color than Nvidia GPUs in PC (PS3 uses Nvidia 7800GTX)... while PS3 still got the upper hand in processing power thanks to it's cell proc

Although EA published Crysis 2, they did not develop it. So, and I'm just guessing here, they'd probably have to pay the licenses instead of cracking the whip on their programmers to make their own engine.

But good point, using a pre optimized engine would make a lot of sense.

This one time I was typing stuff to someone on msn and I was playing Saints Row 2 on the 360 next to me with my feet and my friend who was over at the time was like :O
True story.

thousands? i spent 150 on a new graphics card. what fucking rock you live under?

The one with THE latest variation of the ATI HD5xxx or nVidia GTX4xx series.

Because a PC simply does everything!

Those things always cost 100s and 1000s when they show up; wait a half year or two, have the same hardware for bargain price. Nuff said.

PS3/360 just use the equivalent of 20USD video cards. Hell maybe even cost less now, I've said this shit for over a year probably.

my 5770 1gb cost me 150$ and plays damn near everything i throw at it maxed or damn near maxed. i dont use aa, because once you hit 1920x1200 resolution, you only see jaggies in screenshots, in game you never notice it.

Actually consoles are sold for prices below production costs...

Also if you set the details to console levels, you could run every game with even cheaper hardware.
Unlike consoles there are no region codes, you can play every game. Somethimes you have to change non-unicode language like for japanese or korean games, but thats no problem at all.

The only that speaks for getting a console is because you want to play special games that arnt available for the PC.

Dreamcast was my last one and i dont plan to buy another one. Sooner or later there will be emulators. ^^

Good argument until you saud "Sooner or later there will be emulators. ^^". I severely doubt there will be decent emulators that run perfectly for any new-gen console. The closest thing you have is Dolphin... Which isn't good because of the lack of waggle stick.

Even if you set a waggle stick up through your PC using bluetooth, it's not the same.

Also, good luck with your 360/PS3 emulator :D

PS2 ones are still shit and show no signs of becoming fully reliable or playable at all in the near future. :D

yea, its in an hd resolution.

and you only need to be 8 times more powerful then the console to emulate it. and if im correct, i believe i am, we have hit that mark a while ago, or are at least closing in on it.

"PS2 ones are still shit and show no signs of becoming fully reliable or playable at all in the near future. :D"

Actually, there are only a handful of games pcsx2 can't play. It's all a matter of checking/unchecking the right boxes.

Those insane people with 8 of the most expensive video cards crossfired or SLI'd, only to get new one the following year. Actually, a perfect gaming machine (as in, less then 0.000000000000000000001 latency) can cost $1000 or more.

actually Quad SLI or CFX is the highest at the moment but I doubt you'd know. This is an example of the most extreme PC gamers but these people (me included although I don't spend as much as THAT) don't care for money. If you have it and you like spending it on your PC, what's wrong with that?

Heck, you can even invest less than $1000 and your rig can live for 5 years!

x86 is a faulty architecture...

Heh.

Lmao, wow, I didn't even notice if GTA 4 had grass or not. That's how much shit like grass matters to me when I'm playing a game. GTA 4 would have been GTA 4 even if the buildings looked like cardboard cutouts.

Side note, I turn grass OFF on almost all games when I have the chance. Developers like to be a bunch of stupid fucking assholes, where you can't see through grass, with your giant lack of X-ray vision, resulting in plenty of frustration while looking for a corpse amongst all of it, or getting computer *lolololaimbot* npc's that can see through it, walls, and every other assortment of visual obstruction in the game. Taking out the grass just makes sense.

I own all 3 systems, all hand-helds, a PC, and a laptop...

Oh, and I also own a PS2, DC and GC...

I have more than enough money to buy the slim/elite/black versions, but I'd rather spend them all commissioning more Touhou futa/yuri crack-pairing doujins~

@alidan

Maybe...But I'm all about the blood, gore, destruction and gameplay...

But you are right...The selling point nowadays is graphics...And even the minute of details matter...