Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3"

Subject: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:15 am

http://www.pcworld.com/article/194313/crytek_crysis_2_performs_better_on_ps3_than_xbox_360.html

Gentlefolk, beware, there be firestorms here. Crytek, the Frankfurt-headquartered studio responsible for Crysis, the first-person shooter still torturing high-end PCs years after release, just admitted the PS3 version of Crysis 2 performs better on the PlayStation 3 than the Xbox 360.

Make that "slightly" better, according to a quote pulled by CVG from a PSM3 chat with Crysis 2 development lead Carl Jones. Also make that "at the moment," meaning there's no reason not to hope the two versions could be at performance parity when the final code ships, end of year.

Other sites are reading this unexpected but ambiguous admission as a referendum on the game's visual quality between console versions. Read Jones' quote again in full: "At the moment, we're getting slightly more performance from PS3 compared to 360." It's not (a referendum on visual anything). As far as anyone who's laid eyes on the game's concerned (back to CVG here) the two versions look "exactly the same."

Less sensational and more intriguing is Jones' claim that Crytek found the PS3 as easy to design for as the Xbox 360.

"We're lucky in the fact that we've come to the generation slightly later than other people--the ones who were trying to build the first technology and games were surprised at how different the PS3 was," Jones told PSM3. "We took our time and worked out the right way to approach it."

Conventional wisdom holds that the Xbox 360 tends to be easier to program for because of its Windows-like design architecture, whereas the PS3 with its arguably more powerful but proprietary multicore setup works like nothing the industry's seen before.

And no, before you ask, Crysis 2's new Manhattan-based story won't perform "slightly better" on either platform, though with author Richard Morgan as lead scribbler, it may--repeat may--improve the original's ready-made alien invasion narrative across the board.

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:50 am

Still many months out from release. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure that they will both be the same when it launches. Crytek won't let Crysis 2 pull a Bayonetta.

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:26 pm

Lets look at the quote: "At the moment, we're getting slightly more performance from PS3 compared to 360."

The key words here are "At the moment" and "Slightly". Meaning that it's barely any better and the two version will be identical in the end.

They are still working on everything and it's no uncommon for one version to be farther along than the other. Give it a few months and it could be the Xbox 360 that "slightly" outperforms.

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:29 pm

Well I hope so because if its any good, I'll being getting on the 360.

Seaman Recruit Posts : 11 Join date : 2010-04-17

I'm not choosing any console sides but slightly is most likely barely any noticable changes so no need to worry 360 gamers

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I was gonna get this on PS3 but now I am gonna get it on 360 cause I know more people who gonna get it. And seriously? Unless you are really paying attention (or the game is Bayonetta) you won't noticed the smallest of details like that.

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:18 pm

*sigh* another random ass website

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:56 pm

Crysis 2. WAY better on PC though. Razz

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:06 am

arnt god of war wrote:: *sigh* another random ass website

What?

Seaman Apprentice Posts : 33 Join date : 2010-04-19

xSTONEYx187x wrote:

arnt god of war wrote:: *sigh* another random ass website

What?

No one's ever heard of it.

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:36 pm

343_Guilty_Spark wrote:: Lets look at the quote: "At the moment, we're getting slightly more performance from PS3 compared to 360."

The key words here are "At the moment" and "Slightly". Meaning that it's barely any better and the two version will be identical in the end.

They are still working on everything and it's no uncommon for one version to be farther along than the other. Give it a few months and it could be the Xbox 360 that "slightly" outperforms.

QFT

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:28 pm

im getting it on pc

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:17 pm

DarkSwarm85 wrote:: Crysis 2. WAY better on PC though.

Crysis 2 PROBABLY gonna suck like the first one.

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Sun May 02, 2010 11:52 pm

KEY WORD = slightly meaning "a little bit more"

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Tue May 11, 2010 7:28 am

Just a ps3 fanboy trying to make it a big deal.

Subject: Re: Crysis 2 "slightly better on the PS3" Sat May 15, 2010 10:40 am

Even if the ps3 version turns out better, we still have the upper hand in the multiplatform library, with the majority of the games being superior on 360! mouahahaha XD