Gamespot has an article on the differences between the Xbox360 and the PS3 for games which have both a 360 and a PS3 version. The games they tested were NFS:Carbon,Call of Duty 3,Madden,Marvel, NBA2K7,Fight Night,Tony Hawk and Tiger Woods.
In all these photos it seems that the biggest difference in graphics quality is brightness. This I find to be quite ridiculous, couldn’t they have adjusted the brightness of the PS3 to match that of the Xbox360, or vice versa? Aside from one image always being brighter than the other there is functionally no difference in graphics between the consoles.
The 360 is able to put out almost the same graphics as the PS3 in all these games. There isn’t one in the bunch that you can point to and say that the PS3 version looks “Much better” when you remove the brightness level from the equation. In fact, in some cases the Xbox360 seems to handle HDR lighting a bit better.
Any perceived differences in graphic quality certainly don’t seem to be worth the 200US$ difference in price between the PS3 (US$600.00) and the Xbox360(US$400). If the cheaper system gives you the same graphics and gameplay as the more expensive machine…why do you need to purchase the more expensive machine?
Fight Night PS3
Fight Night 360
Tony Hawk PS3
Tony Hawk Xbox360
i would say the 360 wins due to the ability to see the stones on the road and lack of pixelisation and image blurring on the kerbstones surrounding the road on the tony hawks game. but unfortunately the fightnite game is not a very good picture to judge graphical differences between the 2
Comment by darren — March 17, 2007 @ 8:52 pm
look at the xbox360 fightnight at the banners the xbox is much more real looking folds look real
ps3 looks flat with no shadow
Comment by ben — March 26, 2007 @ 7:38 am
xbox simply wins
Comment by jawad — September 7, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
Hmm, when I compare the pictures above I see a huge difference in quality. Fight night looks much better on PS3 and TH looks much cleaner on 360. That said, I think the difference in quality has less to do with the capabilities of either system and more to do with the programming of the game. Both of these machines have proven much better graphics performance that is seen in the above pictures. It is more prudent to compare the best performing game from each respective platform to gain more insight on which system is more capable. I would say you are right about the money thing, but PS3 is still one of the cheapest Bluray players and I personally don’t think HDDVD is going to make it…… Cheers!
Comment by jf — February 8, 2008 @ 9:41 pm