Vysez said:
For what reasonable purpose exactly?
Is that a serious question?
For as long as I have been visiting B3D, this site has always been filled with comparisons of performance and/or IQ between competing products. Most of that is graphics cards, but not all. People here are typically techies, and just like to know everything about everything, including how angle dependent AF or gamma corrected AA looks on ATi and nVidia hardware. Sometimes it is just so they know, because they are interested in the field and technology, sometimes it is for petty bragging rights, and sometimes it helps them make a purchase decision.
What is any different about Sony vs. Microsoft in the console arena? Some people might be ******s, some might just want to know how RSX and Xenos (or more appropriately the systems as a whole) handle very similar software, and some people might actually want to know which looks better on cross-platform titles as data for their purchase decision.
Seriously dude, there have been thousands of discussions on PS3 and 360 since before we even knew what the consoles would be named. Speculation on what the hardware would be like, what features they would have, what performance they would provide, and what the resulting graphics would look like. Not surprisingly, a lot of that speculation has, for better or worse, revolved around comparisons of one approach vs. the other. Not necessarily as a contest, but rather it is more difficult to evaluate the performance and worth of something when you do not have a yardstick to use for comparison. PS3/360(/Wii) give convenient yardsticks for one another.
And here we have, perhaps, the first screenshots of a multiplatform game being shown on both systems. People are obviously going to be curious, after years of speculation, about what graphical differences, if any, there are between the two systems. Sure, the level of completeness is not equivalent, but when has that stopped people from holding interesting discussions in the past.
If you don't want us to discuss that, then just what in the hell are we supposed to discuss?? I'm sitting here, shaking my head in wonder, trying to figure out just what you might have meant by that question. And I have to be honest... everything I come up with makes me shake my head even more.
