News EA: We've maxed out the Xbox 360

Might wanna get your vision checked out then..

 

One of the most blatant things I have noticed on most ps3 versions of games is the lack of AA. Need For Speed Carbon was Horrible on PS3 ! Unfortunately, unlike on a PC, there's nothing you can do about it. You can't just change TV contrast.

 

Yea, multi platforms usually favour the 360, but the PS3's exclusives usually blow away 360 exclusives, graphically anyways, game play wise anyways, which can be argued which is better.

 

True, but there's no AA on a Xbox 360 either...

 

Very true, no AA in Forza 2, Ridge Racer, Crackdown. No AA in Gears of War either, but I was expecting that because of the Unreal 3 engine.

 

Er.. quite a few games on the xbox have AA.. like Fallout 3..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware#Graphics_processing_unit


And

http://techreport.com/articles.x/8342/2

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/f/forzamotorsport2/default.htm

 

GT5 is 1080p (1280x1080 actually) and 60fps and has much greater detail than Forza 2.

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/criterion-nobodys-maxed-out-ps3-360

 

if the power of the ps3 hasn't been maxed out yet then I wonder wtf Konami were doing when they made MGS4 because even the cinematics were laggy as hell

More objectively though, I think 3 years and a half to max out a console is quite decent. Pretty much the same thing happened in the past and sometimes it took even longer

snes - yoshi's island 1995 - 4 years
genesis - Vectorman 1995 - 4 years
N64 - Perfect Dark 2000 - 4 years
PS2 - GT4/GoW2 2005 - 4 years
Gamecube - RE4 2004- 4 years

Those are all approximate numbers but they're example that came to my mind and I think the 360 seems to be following a similar pattern

 

On my PS3 the cinematics were absolutely perfect and steady fps in MGS4. Possibly your PS3 was too hot?

 

That's a good question as it wasn't mine (I actually don't own one.. yet). I am extremely severe however when it comes to framerate so maybe you didn't even notice the drops on your setup or just didn't really pay attention

It's okay though, i've seen much worse on the NES

 

I would notice it. I notice things easy.

 

have you noticed we're only 3-4 posts apart ?

 

No reason to spam.

I still don't get frame rate issues on consoles though. I mean how hard is it to make games work when you have just one set of hardware to max out?

 

I guess optimization takes time and time is money, therefore it goes down the drain and the game gets released as soon as it 'looks' ready