You know i heard from a few reviews that COD3 ended up a bit more exciting on the 360 with some better effects but it seems that somebudy seemed to overlook something. It’s something in the multiplayer, no it’s not the number of players its 24 player online on both consoles the ps3 and 360… so then what is it (besides choppy framerates on the ps3 version), no theirs something else … don’t know yet?
On multiplayer, one single PS3 can bring in… 1 player to the 24 player match, on the other hand, on Xbox Live a COD3 console can have 4 local players all join a multiplayer match. This isn’t just a gameplay feature thats better on the 360 version, but whats even more important its a performance difference, on the 360 the unit is rendering 4 independent view ports with all different views, while the ps3 only deals with 1 player onscreen. And to think, the ps3 version has been reported to have framerate issues even with only needing to deal with 1 local player view.
Kinda makes you wonder if the 360’s doing the 24 players better than its ps3 counterpart, i wonder what the 360 could have done for Resistence had it been a 360 title ;) Anyways back to gears and viva pinata for me :)
Source: X360F
#1 by Karl on November 17th, 2006
Im probably going to end up being a wii360 owner, but I have to make a comment about something you have said…
Just because the 360 is rendering 4 independent viewports, does not mean that they are each as highly defined as a single viewport. Historically, games lower the quality of the graphics in each of those viewports – probably to something that, when all added up, equals that found in the single player/viewport mode. Ok, sure it probably takes a bit more horsepower to spit out graphics AND have four players controlling the action on-screen… But, yeah just thought I would point that out.
There are certainly a lot of differences becoming apparent between each version of the games over ALL platforms. This is to be expected. However, bare in mind that the 360 has been out a whole year longer than the ps3. The Ps3 is based on NEWER technology – much of which is untapped (probably the case for 360, but maybe not as much) I think we will have to wait until CoD4 – SIGH – before we can really make a true comparison.
#2 by Matt on November 17th, 2006
actually the final retail copies state 16 players online for the ps3