Arstechnica Confirms X360 Version Of Ghostbusters Destroys PSX3 Version Graphically. Pump it,

*Sparky · Jun 18, 2009

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/...phically-youll-want-to-stick-with-the-360.ars

Ghostbusters: graphically, you'll want to stick with the 360

Ghostbusters is a very nice-looking game, but a head-to-head comparison shows the difference between the PS3 and 360 versions. Updated with our own test.

Our review of Ghostbusters is out, along with notes about which version to buy. One big difference between the current-generation consoles? The quality of the texture work in the game. LensofTruth did a very eye-opening comparison of the different versions of the game and they came to a single conclusion: avoid the PS3 version if you have a 360.

"The big issue was in the texture quality, and let me tell you it was a huge difference! The texture quality for the PlayStation 3 left us shaking our heads in disbelief," the site explained. "This went beyond the traditional consoles rendering textures differently, as we've seen in other Head2Heads, the PlayStation 3 seemed to have ½ the texture quality of the Xbox 360 and in other areas, even less. This was present on all the PlayStation 3 textures, normal maps, spec maps, light maps, etc. even the dynamic shadow maps looked blocky and half the quality of the Xbox 360." Even worse, the compression added to the PS3 textures resulting in bad banding and blockiness that "couldn't be ignored."

The site has a number of rollovers to show the difference in the graphical quality, and it's rather striking. The PS3 also suffers from a mandatory install that doesn't seem to decrease the loading times from the 360 version. In other words, you'll be eating hard drive space without a marked decrease in loading time. Not good. It also appears as if the game is running at a lower resolution on the PS3.

What's even more surprising? Sony is publishing the game in Europe as a timed exclusive. It looks like if gamers in Europe want the best version of the game, they're going to have to wait.
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Pump it Little Man, Pump it,

MegaGreenbean · Jun 18, 2009

That's interesting. Does this mean I should buy an xbox360 instead of a ps3?

Mouseshadow · Jun 18, 2009

Are you crazy???!?
It's ghostbusters!
The game that sold a million C64's with that sample!
Of course you must!

Xajin · Jun 18, 2009

the president of Terminal Reality Mark Randel said:

We’re running the same game for both platforms but if we made a PS3-only game, for example, you could double the amount of objects on screen that you’re seeing. The PlayStation 3 has seven processors and the 360 only has three, so seven versus three means you can do a lot more on the PS3. We’re keeping the game the same over both platforms so we don’t want to take out any features.
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<Facepalm>

Chaka015 · Aug 27, 2009

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/101/1018556p1.html

...Both single and multiplayer modes have been updated. In single player mode, fixes include an increase in resolution to match that of Xbox360 and some freeze issues, along with numerous other localization fixes...
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I just picked this up yesterday so it's well timed for this PS3 owner...

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