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Sony's PlayStation 3 is a marvel of technology, while the Xbox 360 has been out for over 12 months. But which games console outputs the best graphics? Gamespot carried out some checks and found that the graphics of most of the Xbox 360 games were superior to those of the PS3.

The Gamespot examined a large number of games before coming to their conclusion. These included:

* Need for Speed Carbon * Call of Duty 3 * Madden 07 * Marvel Ultimate Alliance * NBA 2K7 * Fight Night Round 3 * Tony Hawk's Project 8 * Tiger Woods PGA 07

Conclusion:

We expected the PlayStation 3 to ship with several games that first appeared on the Xbox 360, similar to how the Xbox 360 had a lot of Xbox ports at launch. And the PS3 did indeed arrive with a good number of games that originally shipped for the Xbox 360. This gave us the perfect opportunity to compare the graphics on both systems with several cross-platform games. You'd think that the PS3 versions would be exactly the same or slightly superior to the Xbox 360 versions, since many of these games appeared on the 360 months ago, but it seems like developers didn't use the extra time to polish up the graphics for the PS3. We found that the Xbox 360 actually had better graphics in the majority of the games we compared.

To my eye, the Xbox 360 graphics do look better for most of the games. My advice is unchanged - unless you absolutely need to be at the cutting edge, wait 6 - 12 months for the PS3. By then the bugs will have been ironed out (such as the scaling issue, which still remains unfixed, despite the version 1.3 firmware patch) of the system.

What do you think? Check it out for yourself. The mouseover graphics comparison on Gamespot is amazing.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=178

yep.360 is thw winner anyways

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Cool. Im still having fun with my Ps3

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360 as of this moment

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The reason people say the "graphics" are better is because the HDR lighting is better. PS3 can use HDR (Not sure what Numo means by it can't) but not as good. If it tries to use AA as well, it sort of weakens the HDR effect. The PS3 can even out with 360, but there may be framerate issues. Still though, we have to wait for developers to start making some magic.

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Give the PS3 time. It just came out, the games will look a lot better in 07.

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I think that MotorStorm clears that up for us

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Not really, Rez. I saw MotorStorm in action, and it has nothing on Forza 2 as far as visuals. But then again, Gran Turismo blows MS out the box as well.

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Lair looks absolutly incredible.

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I don't know about Forza 2, but I think that if it looks better than motorstorm, then well done, because Motorstorm looks very impressive.

In terms of vehicles and standard features that appeal to me, I'd agree with you and give it to GT. Actually, a screenshot of a Lotus Elise turning a curb with a mountain in the background on Gran Turismo impressed the hell out of me.

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