GTFOH!

I meant the PS3 and 360 compared to the Wii (since they compared the Call of Duty's). I was going to add that to my comment to stop a fanboy war, but I didn't care, but to stop any further confusion I added it here.

@darth

By the way I'm not calling you a fanboy, just posting what I was going to do.

1.4 is one of the idiots I was talking about.

The 360 and PS3 are equal in power as so many developers have told us...it's just that the 360 is a more efficient console to work with and you can get better results with less effort...that is why multiplatform games tend to look better on the 360.

The title should read "Multi-platform" and not Cross-platform, two totally different things.

Shadownrun, Final Fantasy XI, Universe at War: Earth Assault, and Lost Planet 1 Colonies Edition are the only cross-platform titles I know of.

@1.6

That's not true, the 360 has a better GPU and more efficient RAM (PS3 has better RAM, but being split makes development more of a hassle), while the PS3 has a much more powerful processor which they wanted developers to be able to make games only using the Cell, for example Uncharted 2 is running almost completely using the Cell and RAM, the GPU was barley even touched which is why, the PS3 won't be maxed out until 2011, and the 360 is already there. The 360 is easier to develop for so game developers were able to get better results quicker, and now with the 360 their entering the tweak and polish stage where to make a game look better, you have to put more polish into it.

I'd say the 360 has reached about 80 - 90% of it max, while the PS3 is at 60 - 70%. I was going to write a detailed blog about this, but again I'm to lazy to do so.

Apparently there wasn't even supposed to be a GPU in the PS3 as the SPUs can do the work of a pretty hefty GPU. But they threw one in late in the process to make the transition easier for developers. Once you know how to use the SPUs, the GPU is pretty much superfluous

that the PS3 is vastly stronger than the 360 is wrong. 360 is powerful. But the PS3 has more processing power. Need proof? besides all the technical crap, just look at the exclusives. Case closed.

By the way wasn't there an article here a while ago saying that microsoft was asking companies to gimp games or something like that. I dont want to accuse without having the source however. maybe one of you has a link or something.

Slightly off topic but is it me or does Gabe look like he's pulling off some old skool b-boy stance in that picture!?

Big G Newel.....YEAH BWOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYY!

Someone give him a VW medallion and some linoleum and make him breakdance! Now THAT i would pay to see!

"Should They Be Made Equal?"

Games were never "equal" until this gen. Depending on how the hardware was being used we either got different versions of games or a noticeable better version... until this gen where the lowest common denominator happens to gimp ALL versions for no reason.

Whether that's entirely true or not is irrelevant as devs just don't want to really upset a huge part of their market by leavcing their version way, way behind. It's happened by accident and when PS3 architecture was too new for great results and think about the reaction then?!! It was rabid over ports like TOB. Even over Bayonetta(which is nowhere near as bad as made out, imo)it was a bunfight and it wasn't even the original dev making it!

Seriously, can we blame devs for making games equal when fanboys and offended gamer alike would make their life hell and sales lower?

devs are too scared to take advantage of one system over the other. Although i wish they would take advantage of one system over the other, which would prove which console is better and maybe shut the fanboys up, yes both fanboys. Anyways, but how would you feel playing a game on the 360, knowing the exact same game is on the ps3 which is 10 times better, or has extra content, etc.

scared may not be the correct term. Lack of sufficient staffing may be better explained like this. Years ago when game development was cheaper, there was enough staff in a company to basically break off two teams to work on the same project for their respected platforms.

I am going back the genesis / snes days. Take games like mortal kombat, toy story, madden football, etc. Games that were released at the same time on both platforms. There were obvious advantages and disadvantages between versions but the teams in charge did their best to adapt. Sometimes it came out where the genesis was the better version (madden, mortal kombat) and some where the snes was the better version (street fighter, toy story, etc).

Same game different teams that knew the hardware and what it was capable of. Now a days the dev cost is so $$$$ that there isnt enough $$ in the budget of some of these companies to have teams working on tailor made versions for each platform. Sad really as I know that there are things that each version of a game like...well pretty much ALL multiplat games so far this gen, could have done to make their platform version stand out a bit.

It takes time, money and manpower and those are three things that are scarce this gen. It doesnt help that we have all become spoiled and want nothing but the absolute best (myself included) instead of settling for what the devs can call the common ground. Nothing wrong with that but you know they could have done a little more.

During the first part of the PS2/Xbox1 era, you could find a few titles that had to be downgraded to the PS2. Mostly done by PC devs brought in by MS yet still looking to get the PS2's market share, you rarely found instances were they, "just didn't want to do it," or left glaring glitches. The same was true for even the SNES/Genesis times. If you made a multiplatform title you did your best to get the most out of both systems. If you didn't it was put on you, not it.

just because we're in the HD console era now shouldn't change that.

nice one,

Good book, gamers should read it, especially fanboys Don't worry it's not that many pages /s.

On topic, would MW2,as it is now, even run on the Wii?
Plus the patches for Darksiders on Xbox and for Bayonetta on Playstation makes me wanna believe that publishers do want them to be more equal (though theyre not created equal, guess the systems are too different)