PS3 version can't be that bad... : V - Skyrim

» Mon May 07, 2012 1:22 pm

Every time a game as big as this is released, at PAX and E4 and such, there's a LOT of people reviewing on all formats, i have read, seen footage, and been told personally from people who visited, PS3 looks worse, a good friend of myn is a PS3 user and agrees, i have never played on a PS3 ever, not even at a convention so i couldn't say personally.

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:10 am

Every time a game as big as this is released, at PAX and E4 and such, there's a LOT of people reviewing on all formats, i have read, seen footage, and been told personally from people who visited, PS3 looks worse, a good friend of myn is a PS3 user and agrees, i have never played on a PS3 ever, not even at a convention so i couldn't say personally.

Bethesda always only showed the 360 version therefore: No

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:28 am

By Bethesda, Gamestop, and a handful of early players have confirmed that the PS3 version is the same as the X360 version. This topic has to have been made a dozen times...

» Mon May 07, 2012 2:48 pm

I understand seeing a lot of the same topics is bumming you out, but you dont HAVE to read them or post in them you know ;-)

» Mon May 07, 2012 11:02 am

Shhhhhh....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUi61RRlug

Pause at 0:23 proves PS3 version.

» Mon May 07, 2012 11:27 am

Shhhhhh....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUi61RRlug

Pause at 0:23 proves PS3 version.

If only someone could use an HD capture card...

Anyway, past the low quality of the video itself, it looks great and appears to be running smoothly. It might even be my imagination, but does it have a better draw distance than the 360 version? The water seems to maintain detail farther out than I remember it doing so on the 360 demos.

» Mon May 07, 2012 2:52 pm

Wait, there are legally-obtained copies of this game being played on PS3?

Do tell.

:facepalm:

» Mon May 07, 2012 6:38 am

Don't ask, don't question. Just watch the video.

» Mon May 07, 2012 12:13 pm

Bethesda always only showed the 360 version therefore: No

Live feed's of BOTH 360 AND ps3 have been all over the web for a week nearly, and i watched around 2 and a half hours of 360 HD footage and an hourish ps3 HD....

Therefore: Yes

» Mon May 07, 2012 4:52 am

Wait, there are legally-obtained copies of this game being played on PS3?

Do tell.

:facepalm:

Europe - The Netherlands and Belgium for sure. Haven't seen or read anything about a broken street date here in the US.

» Mon May 07, 2012 3:03 am

Europe - The Netherlands and Belgium for sure. Haven't seen or read anything about a broken street date here in the US.

Wait, it's now legal for retailers to break the contracts they signed when they agreed to sell the game?

The copies may be legitimate there, but they were still obtained illegally.

» Mon May 07, 2012 3:37 pm

Don't ask, don't question. Just watch the video.

I just compared it to the 360 demo. Yeah, the PS3 build we're seeing does have a farther draw distance, better distant water, and it actually has fog on the distant mountains. It could just be because the 360 build we've seen is only the beta version, but the final PS3 version looks noticeably better in those aspects than the 360's supposed beta build (the one demonstrated in Bethesda's 3-part demo).

» Mon May 07, 2012 12:33 pm

Well PS3 has a worse GPU and unlike PS3 exclusive games Bethesda is not using the cell processor to offload graphical tasks from the GPU so you can expect slightly worse looking graphics and substandard anti aliasing as with most games ported to the PS3.

...or it could be better, just have to wait and see :rolleyes:

» Mon May 07, 2012 9:45 am

Wait, it's now legal for retailers to break the contracts they signed when they agreed to sell the game?

The copies may be legitimate there, but they were still obtained illegally.

obtained illegally? How so? - I got Fallout NV from Target a whole week before it's official release. They were selling it, I bought it - how is that illegal?

Hate to break to you but stores break street dates all the time - Walmart and Target I know for sure do it. You're just overreacting cause you don't have the game early - and if it was available to you early, you'd buy it too.

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:01 am

Well PS3 has a worse GPU and unlike PS3 exclusive games Bethesda is not using the cell processor to offload graphical tasks from the GPU so you can expect slightly worse looking graphics and substandard anti aliasing as with most games ported to the PS3.

...or it could be better, just have to wait and see :rolleyes:

At this stage in the game, only foolish or apathetic developers wouldn't utilize the SPEs. In fact, Sony even included tools in the PS3's SDK which allows for quick and easy programming of the SPEs to utilize MLAA. What we're seeing paints a different picture from what you claim. The PS3 version is seemingly very well-done... and again, very few developers this late into the PS3's life cycle don't utilize the PS3 somewhat properly.

» Mon May 07, 2012 12:26 pm

obtained illegally? How so? - I got Fallout NV from Target a whole week before it's official release. They were selling it, I bought it - how is that illegal?

Hate to break to you but stores break street dates all the time - Walmart and Target I know for sure do it. You're just overreacting cause you don't have the game early - and if it was available to you early, you'd buy it too.

The chances of you being arrested and prosecuted for buying it early: zero.

But that wasn't what I said.

Regardless of whether it happens, any retailer that offers the game ahead of the release date is breaking the terms of the contract they sign with the developer regarding sales. Every store that carries this game has to agree to it. Will Zenimax/Bethesda actually spend the time/money chasing down every store that broke street date? Well, their legal team clearly has enough time to go after anyone who wants to say "scrolls" out loud.

» Mon May 07, 2012 11:13 am

Wait, there are legally-obtained copies of this game being played on PS3?

Do tell.

:facepalm:

Since there are no pirated copies of Skyrim for the PS3, they are all most likely legally obtained

Live feed's of BOTH 360 AND ps3 have been all over the web for a week nearly, and i watched around 2 and a half hours of 360 HD footage and an hourish ps3 HD....

Therefore: Yes

Still no. There were a lot of threads over the last weeks and month because people were afraid about the status of the PS3 version as Bethesda didn't show anything and hide it like the PS3 version doesn't even exists and all we have seen so far are a couple of images and a 35sec video from people that got the game earlier.
Some days ago, no one had seen anything from the PS3 version not even a hourish HD video.

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:18 am

Since there are no pirated copies of Skyrim for the PS3, they are all most likely legally obtained

Why is this concept so hard for people to grasp?

Just because a copy is legitimate doesn't mean that it was legally obtained. No retailer is legally allowed to be selling the game, so any non-reviewer copies have been obtained illegally.

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:29 am

I cant decide whether to get it for my 360 or PS3!!!

» Mon May 07, 2012 2:03 am

Every time a game as big as this is released, at PAX and E4 and such, there's a LOT of people reviewing on all formats, i have read, seen footage, and been told personally from people who visited, PS3 looks worse, a good friend of myn is a PS3 user and agrees, i have never played on a PS3 ever, not even at a convention so i couldn't say personally.

I hope you're not saying that all games look worse on PS3. Some of the best looking games on consoles have been from the PS3.

Live feed's of BOTH 360 AND ps3 have been all over the web for a week nearly, and i watched around 2 and a half hours of 360 HD footage and an hourish ps3 HD....Therefore: Yes

PM link to PS3 stream? :thumbsup:

» Mon May 07, 2012 11:09 am

Why is this concept so hard for people to grasp?

Just because a copy is legitimate doesn't mean that it was legally obtained. No retailer is legally allowed to be selling the game, so any non-reviewer copies have been obtained illegally.

I get the concept. But it's not illegal for the buyer.
The shop has the contract with the publisher. They break it, their fault.
As a customer you don't have a contract with Bethesda like when you're allowed to buy a game. If it's in the shop, you can buy it.
No judge will convict you for buying a game earlier as it's not illegal. At least in Europe. Don't know about other countries/states.
That's why I wouldn't call it a illegal copy.
For the shop it's a different topic as they committed a breach of contract.

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:23 am

Hi,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUi61RRlug

Bye..

/thread

» Mon May 07, 2012 1:19 am

So just because some people can't get their copy earlier want punishment for the stores that sell them to other people. What a world we live in...

» Mon May 07, 2012 1:05 pm

Hi,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUi61RRlug

Bye..

/thread

We've all seen that. That doesn't prove anything. It was taken off a crappy camera....

» Mon May 07, 2012 1:05 pm

I get the concept. But it's not illegal for the buyer.
The shop has the contract with the publisher. They break it, their fault.
As a customer you don't have a contract with Bethesda like when you're allowed to buy a game. If it's in the shop, you can buy it.
No judge will convict you for buying a game earlier as it's not illegal. At least in Europe. Don't know about other countries/states.
That's why I wouldn't call it a illegal copy.
For the shop it's a different topic as they committed a breach of contract.

If anyone can point out where I said that the buyer was going to be prosecuted, I'd love to see it.

I'm aware that the stores are the ones in violation of their contract. But it doesn't make someone buying the copy any more legal. They're not supposed to be selling it, which means that no one is supposed to be buying it. No one's going to jail over it, but it still means that the only copies in circulation are pirated or were illegally obtained.