BioShock: Xbox 360 vs PS3

Ports to PS3 just don't work...

it's only the graphics your complaining about there's more to Bioshock then just graphics and if you want to do a proper head to head i suggest you look at some IGN ones.

The graphics are identical to the 360 version, and if anything, are sharper on the PS3 version.  I don't know what Gameplayer was looking at, but then again they've always been biased.  Even IGN confirms that they're pretty much identical, and possibly superior on the PS3.  And at the end of the day, who really gives a shit?  Is there really any point to this article?  Play the game for what it is and enjoy it.

This is hilarious. The article points out a few issues with a PS3 game and the Fanboys come out in force and says its wrong.

Kiddies, you havent played it.

Corder: Its not just the graphics (even though the PS3 supposedly has TEH BETTA GRAFICS LOL) its the framerate thats shit too.

Having been present at the part of the testing when we were at the exact same point in a level on both machines using the same TV (and were quickly switching between AV to compare the two) it was so fricken obvious that the Ps3 version was dodgier. Waiting 14 months to cop that is an insult.

The cries of platform bias from people who haven't tried their own comparisons are laughable, not even gonna open that can of stupid worms.

That's a nice assumption there Adam.  For your information, I did do a comparison between all 3 versions, on separate TV's (same model) for the console versions, and on my computer monitor (for the PC version, obviously).  As I said before, the PS3 and 360 versions are identical.  The load times are slightly faster on the PS3, but you do have to do an install (still a non-issue in my books).  Visually, you'll be hard pressed to find any difference unless you are blatantly biased (cough, Gamplayer, cough).  If anything, some of the textures are a bit sharper in the PS3 version, which is noticable in some areas, but you have to be looking for it.

Forgot to also mention the framerate.  In my experience with the PS3 version (up to Hephaestus) the framerate has remained perfectly smooth without a hitch.  And it's funny you try and make out that framerate issues are exclusive to the PS3 version, as the 360 version was riddled with framerate issues too.

I'm hard pressed to believe Gameplayer on this topic.   IGN made it clear that both the 360 and PS3 version were pretty much the same, with the PS3 version edging out with some better textures due to the higher disc capacity.  They also said some (but not all) issues were fixed up like corpses that shake.

Thank god for the infallible IGN.

Lets believe the site that says the PS3 version is better even though its a common occurence for boths ports on the PS3 to be rubbish and for the Unreal Engine to have issues with the PS3.

Get your head right down in that sand kiddies and enjoy your inferior version of an already average game.

While I respect your opinion Spoiler, I saw what I saw with my own two eyes. I obviously can't account for yours or IGN's eyes.

As for bias, all the writers here on gameplayer have multi-format backgrounds, and aren't bias in any shape or form. Take me for example; I spent 4 years managing an independent game shop selling every type of platform to every type of customer (casual, hardcore, super hardcore). Then, in terms of writing, I spent a while writing about any game I could for street press mags, a year reviewing stuff for Official Playstation, a year freelancing for Australian 360, and now eight months editing a nintendo mag.

After you've seen and done all that, your perspective on videogames changes. Pretty soon the very concept of fanboyism and system bias just seems like petty tribalism, a self perpetuating joke to vaguely recall whenever somebody spits the dummy. Also, you soon realise that people who are so quick to squeal "bias!" or "fanboy!", are usually living in veeery glass houses, or they have their own hidden agenda. Not to accuse you good sir, of course, but it is something i've noticed over the years.