What sounds more logical.. Lets razor this.. “occam’s razor google it”

Running the game on 2 different engines With 2 different Graphic cards EACH processing data Differently with 2 exactly the same timings “fps has to be an EXACT match to do this”.
Capturing Exactly the same frame in wich the game has progressed exactly the same With all the statistical probable outcomes!.

OR B
some guy FIXED the l1/LB Icon with photoshop..

The simpelest solution is usualy the correct one

The reason I wrote this article initially is because Square was releasing screenshots of a game that weren’t real screenshots. It makes me angry and frustrated when publishers and developers try to pass something off as a screenshot when it isn’t.

The PS3′s CPU is more powerful when it comes to floating point operations per second but the Xbox 360 destroys when it comes to general computing power.

In regards to the GPUs, there is a bit of back and forth. Both the Xbox 360′s Xenos and the PS3′s RSX are clocked at 500MHz. The Xenos has 48 Unified Pipelines where the RSX has 24 Pixel Shader pipelines 8 vertex shader pipelines, and 8 pixel rendering pipelines. The advantage with the 360 is that there is more flexibility in how to use the pipelines based on the games needs.

The PS3′s GPU can render a maximum of 250 Million triangles per second where the Xenos can render 500 million triangles per second. The RSX has the advantage in overall operations per second since its pipelines are more efficient. The RSX can do a total of 136 ops where the Xenos can do a total of 96 ops.

One main advantage of the Xenos is its 10MB eDRAM daughter-die with its 256GB/s bandwidth. This allows the Xenos to apply a 4x MSAA with no effect to overall performance and offers a great frame buffer. The RSX is only able to do 2x MSAA and it is at a performance cost.

The overall memory bandwidth on the Xenos is slightly higher than the RSXs as well. On top of that the RSX has 256MB of dedicated RAM where the Xbox 360 has 512MB of shared RAM. This potentially allows for a developer to allow the GPU more RAM if required if it isn’t needed on the CPU end. In terms of overall GPU performance, the Xenos is better.

But the Cell CPU of the PS3 saves the day in the end, if the developer uses it. The bandwidth between the Cell and the RSX is 32GB/s, plenty fast. A developer can potentially offload all of the vertex processing onto the Cell Processor and allow the GPU to handle all the heavy lifting of the pixel processing. The Xbox 360 CPU does not have this ability.

However, I have determined that you are simply trolling and that you suck. I just wanted to let you know.

Originally i was going to purchase this title for Xbox, but i decided to go with PS3, why..? Well, i had to justify my buying a PS3 didn’t I? Couldn’t just buy it for FFXIV (/drool).

And finally, who cares what they release for what system? I’m ready for all 3. I like games and good old gaming fun. I never sided with this or that system. Keep putting out good games and i’ll keep shelling out the money, when my g/f says it’s ok to spend.. >.> I guess it’s the Download Content that may be a decider in any of this.

/sigh.. back to pwning gobs in yhoator

Haze is another good example of PR that used heavily doctored screenshots. (It primairly made the lighting look way better than it actually did in-game.)

i’m sure most agree that great lighting can greatly enhance a game’s appeal.

Doctored screenshots are Microsoft’s handywork. They can’t stand the fact that the PS3 is more powerful than their console and they’ll do anything to pull the wool over consumer’s eyes, especially if it’s regarding one of the biggest releases of 2010.

Don’t point the blame at Squeenix – point it at the company that would actually have something to gain by pulling a stunt like this.

At any rate, Square admitted to altering the photos. They said they felt there wasn’t any need to enhance the 360 pics, lol.

And to everyone else: I’ve got bad eyesight! I admit this. And yeah, it’s most likely a case of believing what you want to see. My glasses and love of the PS3 made sure to make the image slightly sharper in my mind :D

Dude, don’t get me wrong. These are obviously shopped. I guess the point that I was trying to make is that despite what is released on the press to satisfy fans, the two systems are going to run a very similar looking game. You don’t think that this probably happens a lot in the industry? I think that, in this instance, Square Enix slipped up and instead of choosing a DIFFERENT screen shot, they used the same one. It would be naive of us to think that Activision uses different screen shots for PS3 than they do for XBOX 360 when showing stills for Guitar Hero: Hanson.
So, I hope you understand I don’t disagree with the fact that they are the same photo, or even with your opinion of how wrong it is. What happened here is that Square slipped by not doing a good job of lying and just happened to be caught by a very rabid fan base (Final Fantasy fans). I think that when the game is released and you played on your PS3 at home and then you went to your buddies house and saw him playing on his XBOX that (minus any differences in the performance of the TV’s being used) you would see minor, if any differences at all… just sayin. And I know, it’s the principal, but, just sayin…

Any difference you think you see between the screenshots is completely in your head. If you do a pixel by pixel comparison you will find the images to be 100% identical, minus the button icon difference. I am too lazy to find a screenshot right now but people have posted on other sites the comparison shots that they have run through software that compares every single pixel.

… BTW if Capcom ever releases doctored photos of SSFIV, I will murder them…

Why don’t you write about something worthwhile

Rich, I agree with you on this article, next time though, try to sound less like a middle-aged house wife complaining about the poor service at an IHOP.

PS: I still love you. No Homo.

You are a fool sir. But it was ok when Square was on Sony’s cock? Nobody was whining then was they, you people are a friggin joke.

If you have 2 PCs, one with an Nvidia and one with n ATI GPU, you will NOT get the same picture twice either. It is simply how ATI and NVIDIA render graphics.

Either, it was too much work for SE to make 360 screenshots, as PS3 was ready quite some time earlier, or the 360 screenshots don’t quite match what the PS3 renders.

I’m sure it’s one or the other, the 360 version got more optimized and Square fears the lashing they’d get seeing as to how it should have been the other way around, or they somehow did a horrible job on the 360 version like Bayonetta on the PS3(I know not the same developer).

Either way, SquareEnix is still riding on Microsofts’ cock bluntly, you see the ‘Exclusive 360 DLC’ they’re now getting? Sony is constantly getting cockslapped by Square, next is that FFXIII Verus will go on the 360 or better yet the Nintendo Wii or DS for shits and giggles.

If the two games look very similar, then they should release actual screenshots from each of the consoles. I wonder why Square Enix would feel the need to doctor images in this way.

I’m missing something. What is the complaint of this article? Are you suggesting that the two versions should NOT look the same?

Either way, game’s gonna be better on the PS3.