Comments on: Ghostbusters: Not Really HD On PS3

By: Ghostbusters Charts in the UK | PS3 and PSP news at TheSixthAxis

Ghostbusters Charts in the UK | PS3 and PSP news at TheSixthAxis — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:00:40 +0000

[...] who spend an unhealthy amount of time on the Internet after witnessing the firestorm ignited when comparisons showed that the PS3 version was only running at 75% of the resolution of the 360 version, 960 x 540 [...]

By: Ghostbusters: Not Really HD On PS3 | PS3 and PSP news at TheSixthAxis

Ghostbusters: Not Really HD On PS3 | PS3 and PSP news at TheSixthAxis — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:35:58 +0000

[...] nofi wrote an interesting post today onGhostbusters: Not Really HD On PS3 | PS3 and PSP news at TheSixthAxisHere’s a quick excerpt [...]

By: BoyDay

BoyDay — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:27:32 +0000

Interested to hear what people think now the game’s out over here? I got my copy Tuesday so had already responded in here then saying the graphics are absolutely fine.

By: Watchful

Watchful — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:07:19 +0000

Joystiq have got Terminal Reality’s comments on the situation:

A spokesperson for the developer told us, “For the record, the PS3 version [of Ghostbusters] is softer due to the ‘quincunx’ antialiasing filter and the fact we render at about 75% the resolution of the 360 version. So you cannot directly compare a screen shot of one to the other unless you scale them properly. The PS3 does have less available RAM than the 360 – but we managed to squeeze 3 out of 4 textures as full size on the PS3.”

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/17/ghostbusters-on-ps3-lags-behind-360-version-developer-explains/

So it’s official. The PS3 version is graphically inferior to the 360. Hope Sony didn’t pay too much for the timed European exclusivity. Whether it matters to you is down to personal choice. Me, I actually quite like the cartoony look of the Wii version and I could do with an excuse to switch my Wii on.

By: ii3illy

ii3illy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:17:23 +0000

Why?

By: Blue Heeler

Blue Heeler — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:05:46 +0000

Well this is a nice kick to the balls…I will not buy this game now.

By: Watchful

Watchful — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:40:19 +0000

The fact your PS3 outputs the video signal at 1080p does not mean the game itself is rendered at 1080p. The game is likely rendered at a lower resolution and then uses the PS3’s scaler to increase the resolution of the output.

I don’t have the game myself so I cannot say for certain but not even the best PS3 screenshots I have seen of it suggest it is rendered at anything like native 1080p. Few games are. Even the 1080p WipEout HD ‘cheats’ by reducing the horizontal resolution to keep the frame rate up when things get busy.

Off the top of my head I can’t think of any 1080p cross-platform games. Such is the difficulty of getting a game to run at that resolution with the limited power offered by consoles that for cross-platform development developers normally aim for 720p as few people will notice the difference when playing anyway.

By: BoyDay

BoyDay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:13 +0000

Also, I just looked at that site and I can say with 100% certainty that they have deliberately made the PS3 version look worse. If you look at the screenshots, most aren’t even showing the exact same screen, which of course they should be for a fair comparison. They’ve turned up the brightness on the PS3 version which shows the textures in more detail than having it as dark as they have on the 360 version.

Also, they’re lying about the resolution anyway. This game does run at 1080p on the PS3 – my TV (the same as many other people’s probably) changes to the resolution of whatever game I play on PS3 (so changes between 720p, 1080p and 1080i), and for this game it changed to…. wait for it…. 1080p.

Ignore that bullshit comparison and buy the game if you were planning to, and don’t if you weren’t. Seriously, don’t let them affect your decision because of a made up story due to them probably having a slow news day.

By: Seventy2

Seventy2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:55:46 +0000

Amen.

By: BoyDay

BoyDay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:48:59 +0000

People make waaaaaaay to big a deal of these things. I got the PS3 version yesterday, and it looks great. I’ve not seen the 360 version, but I don’t care if it’s better looking as the graphics on the PS3 one are still beter than a lot of other games and are easily good enough.

People just need to stop constantly comparing the two consoles in a big pissing match and just enjoy what they’ve got (which in this case is a fun game), otherwise they’ll never be happy because they suck the fun out of their own gaming experience by making a huge deal of little things.

By: Raen

Raen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:58:55 +0000

Man that’s some pretty bad texturing issues.

By: iBirch

iBirch — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:14:20 +0000

What! Thats whack! Another rental me thinks.

By: Seventy2

Seventy2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:46:13 +0000

Are you for real?

By: Seventy2

Seventy2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:45:24 +0000

I, like most of you have read the comments on the Lens website, and I’m sure you’ll all agree, it’s a mixed bag of opinions ranging from the obvious – ‘I’m not buying this anymore blah blah’ to the more worrying ‘This site has faked the stills’.

I’ve got both consoles and I’m still pressing on with picking this up on Friday, Lensoftruth or no Lensoftruth.

It’s one website, and until reading this article I was happy with my decision, as were probably most of you. But, I form my own opinions, and I trust TSA completely (I know the review wasn’t fantastic, but as always, it gave a good account of what to expect, and that’ll do for me), so just this once, I’m going to have a little faith that all will not be lost and like ANTS101 rightly says, there may be a future patch if required.

I can’t say it hasn’t dented my enthusiasm for this title, it has a little, but I don’t know, something just doesn’t feel right about all of the retractions Lensof truth are making regarding their definition of ‘like-for-like’ and how they actually ran both versions.

Anyway chaps and chapesses, great article, great posts, you’re all lovely, have a good day everyone.

By: ArgGrr

ArgGrr — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:49:18 +0000

Lol. Epic fail there. Its about time some games started failing big time on PS3, maybe some better quality titles will come through. Alot more people will probably have NOBY NOBY BOY than this game in the end.

By: Hicko

Hicko — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:43:18 +0000

Erm sorry…… I meant that I don’t understand why they’ve done this.

By: Vayner

Vayner — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:38:47 +0000

And here’s a video of how it actually looks: http://vimeo.com/5188310

By: BIGAL-1992

BIGAL-1992 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:32:40 +0000

I remember Terminal Reality saying that they were making the game on the PS3 and then porting the code to 360 and PC. I don’t think it occured to them that the PS3 version shouldn’t look like Sh**e.

By: ii3illy

ii3illy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:24:41 +0000

Lead character artist at Terminal Reality claims the site have only got a pre release copy for the PS3 hence the low textures.

http://boards.polycount.net/showpost.php?p=957580&postcount=33

http://www.skankerzero.com/

By: ANTS101

ANTS101 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:28:33 +0000

On the bright side of life there is a chance of a major patch that could up the pixel resolution and frame rate.
I believe Burnout Paradise now runs at 1080i thanks to a patch, rather than the original 720p.