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Fallout 3 looks worst on PS3
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 23rd October 2008
Fallout 3, according to early reviews, looks best on the PC, OK on the Xbox 360 and worst on the PlayStation 3.
In their exclusive review of the game, PSM3 mentions that the "The PS3 version compares poorly to its Xbox and PC counterparts," which is news that should certainly keep PC gamers smiling a bit about this important title. Not only was it first pirated on consoles almost a month in advance of the release, but it also plays and looks best on a non-console platform.
PSM3 magazine has since tried to calm down PlayStation 3 owners who might be disappointed by the news by clarifying their comments and promising that it won't impact on the game experience in anyway.
The magazine says that the PC version of the game is the best looking and that it is "gorgeous", that the Xbox 360 version has textures that are "noticeably rougher" and that the PS3 version looks the same as the Xbox 360 but with slightly jaggier and rougher objects in the distance.
On the PlayStation 3, the magazine claims that the textures are also muddier and the framerate for the game is noticeably choppier than on the other platforms - especially during certain end-game story missions.
"If you're bothered by a slightly inferior frame rate and fractionally blurrier textures, then perhaps, yes, you'd best buy the Xbox version," admits the mag, though that does apparently "leave the rest of us to enjoy an almost-identical, equally brilliant, game on PS3."
Are you planning on picking up Fallout 3? Check out our hands-on Fallout 3 preview or our interview with Bethesda's Pete Hines for more information, then let us know what you think in the forums.
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Happy? Hell yes. Pc forever <3
i heard that porting pc to 360 or vise versa is pretty simple, guess its just harder to port pc/360 to PS3.
360 game sales are generally higher anyway, i would say its fair to say this was taken into account in alotting time to porting
Still, I'm sure it will look more than acceptable on PS3, and (hopefully) the storyline and gameplay will be sufficient to guarantee its place alongside Fallout 1&2 as a classic, irrespective of whether it really makes the most of the graphical hardware on all platforms.
News like that a bad for Sony, and although I'm not a PS3 owner currently, I feel sorry for Sony to hear that their console is not offering the same good game experience as a PC or an XBox....
all the potential in the world is no use if no one is ready to spend the extra time to make the most of it
i have a 360 and am interested in buying a ps3 but i really cant see any reason a the mo
mclean007, It seems you've mixed up ps3 and xbox360 :)
They do. Game studios have to ask for help.
Why do the news titles that are negative for PS3 always make it seem a billion times worse. If I wouldn't know better, by reading the title it would make me think the PS3 game plays like crap, which is not true. According to reviewers it's just barely worse than 360. If you have both systems then you get it on 360, but if you have just PS3 then its still worth getting. People always make it seem way worse than it really is and that if you only have PS3 then you shouldn't even get the game, while it's not true.
PS3 is much harder to develop for and has way different hardware architecture so if the game is designed on the 360 it is gonna be hard to port it to PS3 and make it run as good without spending extra time because it needs to be programmed much different.
Obviously the PS3 has just as much or more graphical abilities as 360 when you see games like MGS4, Uncharted, GT5P, and WipeoutHD.
You have to dissasemble,
place the DVD drive in a COMPATIBLE computer,
earth it,
boot from a floppy,
download information from your drive,
edit some hex.
flash the drive
put the drive back in the 360
Hope it all works.
download the ISO on your PC
burn the ISO
put it in the 360
Hope it works.
PC:
Download, play.
We have gone over this in many other threads, it will still be pirated a lot more on the PC than the 360, no matter what platform it was pirated first on. Also, no-one ever denied there was console piracy.
In regards to the PS3, until BR-burners and BR-discs become affordable (especially DL-BR's) PS3 piracy will remain non-existent.
does using a pirated game/modding your 360 not mean you run the risk if your on live of getting banned?
Don't forget that you can buy premodded consoles so you can skip most of the steps you described.
Sony does support developers, and even Naughty Dog has started a program to assist developers with PS3 developement. There is only so much Sony can do. The console is a pain to develope for, everyone knows that, but if Bethesda doesn't consult with the "experts" (Naughty Dog/Sony) then they've only themselves to blame for a lacking PS3 version when so many other studios have finally grasped the architecture these days (EA, Infinity Ward, Square-Enix, ect..)
This will be a PC purchase for me. I made the mistake of buying Oblivion on Xbox 360 and missing out on the modder community for the game. Not saying the XBox version was bad (I loved it and still play it), just that a game of this magnitude points to a superior experience on a PC to me. Plus it saves me $10 on the price.
Bit off-topic but these days I find myself opting for the PC version of any multiplatform or 360/PC exclusive games.
I Always thought that the 360's unified 512mb would be much better in the long run.
Someone obviously hasn't got a clue...
Oh noze!!!!!...i haz bin bitch slapped by a Ps3 fanboy.
isn't it possible to boot games from the internal hard drive?
you cant pirate PSN games though. correct?