Screenshot comparisons are an ugly side of the platform battles, but Digital Foundry takes things a little further than most, with normally in-depth analysis of resolution differences, frame rate stutters and other performance issues. His latest, on Black Ops 2, confirms what we wrote earlier with regards to the gulf between the PS3 and the Xbox 360 versions of the game.
Essentially, whilst at least this time Treyarch have managed to get a reasonable resolution on the PS3 – probably 864×720 – the issue is the horrendous blur that’s on top of everything, making it look washed out and messy. “The intensity of the filter is so pronounced that, even after close study of numerous shots, it’s difficult to pinpoint whether any hardware MSAA is being applied on Sony’s platform,” says the article.
“A significant amount of detail is lost in the image overall, but on the plus side, edge detection and smoothing does work out better in some scenes.”
You can see the filter in the shot above – the PS3’s in the middle.
The trick, though, is that without the very latest patch, a lot of the blurriness isn’t there – it’s as if Treyarch wanted to make it more blurry, so added the filter after launch. If you remove the patch (you’ll need to delete the system data for the game) it’ll look better, but obviously you won’t be able to play online.
Not that this will help those affected by the PS3 version freezing. Let’s hope Treyarch are on the case and get this patched up as soon as possible.
cc_star
The blur loses detail, but I think it’s a more consistent image than the Xbox 360 version, which is jaggy as hell.
cc_star
It’s also telling that not one buyer has ever said, wow this is blurry. They just get in and have fun.
I hope for Sony’s sake that they are PC architecture based next time, because without ridiculous time (time is money) investment 3rd parties always come-up short outside of 1 or 2 titles.
Alex C
What? No. Just no.
Nickboss1
I’m seriously starting to think that Activision and MS are conspiraing against Sony. especially after seeing those low scores for the Blops Vita. It looks like they gave the developers 6 months to make it and wanted it to fail. as if the Vita isn’t doing bad enough this quick churned out crap.
Scotty34
damm the pc one is so much nicer
E8_BALL_
… even the 360 ver looks vastly superior.
A thank you to ps3 users, who have invested so much money in the franchise.
Nickboss1
TSA when is your COD Flops declassified review going up?
The Von Braun
Only seen 1 review so far…4/10 on Eurogamer and game sounds horrendous.
Loading times that get worse, longer you are playing, no checkpoints on SP campain missions etc.
SpikeyMikey23
No one had 45 minutes to spare ;)
E8_BALL_
PS3 screenshot strains my eyes & looks horrible.
I was tempted to buy a copy next, not so sure now.
E8_BALL_
*next week.
stage1
Is the patch up, I don’t have it. Thanks
Forrest_01
What’s a horse doing in the game?? Surely they should be on hoverboards if anyting.
Roynaldo
Graphics are a bag of turd anyway no matter what you play it on.
The Von Braun
The good folks on here hit the proverbial nail on the head-Activision et all knew PS3 owners would rush out and buy it, no matter how ‘poor’ it was compared to 360 (and i expect, Wii U) versions.
Sent copy of various websites detailing how PS3 ver.suffered in comparison, to my PSN friends who had game on Pre-Order, said it’s only fair you know what your getting…
Replies that came back were along lines of it was’nt a game breaker, 1 chap sold his PC year back, so all console gaming to him was visually worse/
As long as the online ‘works’ my crowd are happy as Larry and they’ll be buying the DLC etc.Nothing going to change this generation, IF PS3 had more Ram things might be tad different, but as stands, even this late in the cycle, your going to see worse than 360 versions of big name games.
The Von Braun
Sorry, meant as it stands.