Today's most comparative video: Orange Box PS3 vs. Xbox 360

Haha! This is wh I'm a PC/PS3 gamer, I play my Orange Boxes, Bioshocks, Gears of Wars, Battlefields, Company of Heroes and Viva Piniatta's all on my PC...

And my Uncharteds, Resistances, Ratchet and Clanks, Heavenly Swords, Strangeholds and Call of Duty 4 (didn't feel right on the PC) all on my PS3...

I am so awesome...

Should get a Wii sometime too, if only for two decent games it has...

Still prefer my PSP/DS Lite combo to any console out there... Except the PS2..

And I think this is more of a problem with the source engine than the PS3 itself...

Heh, Game rankings has the 360 and PC versions of this in the bloody Top 10 list. The PS3 version just looks like cack and I feel very sorry for the people who will be playing this in less than perfect conditions. That loading time! My oldest of PC's here manages to be faster than the PS3 there. Of course there are many reasons why it took an age to load but when a 5 year old PC can outpace it...

With "top 10"-quality games like this are performing poorly you know your system isn't going to cut it.

Looks like the 360's only competition this gen is going to the be the PC.

heh and yea that chart is deliberately misleading. the bluray drive is just slow.

"Howard notes: "Drive speed matters more to me [than capacity], and Blu-ray is slower", with EGM revealing that "the PS3 Oblivion team compensated for the slower drive by duplicating data across the Blu-ray disc, making it faster to find and load.""http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2007/01/ps3_oblivion_seeing_double_to.php

extra capacity used to compensate for its slowness lol:)

Guys I have the game for PS3. Played all the way through portal -> No problems and I am in Ravenholm in HL2. And havent had a stutter session yet. The game is playable and thats all I care about!!

I thought the worst framerate problems in the PS3 version happens in episode 3, yet Gamevideos does not show those at all.

Clearly this post is 100% gay - what with all the sucking and genital references.

The post title should be "Guess which platform Orange Box was developed on."

Given previous Valve work with MSFT platforms it's all not surprising.

I'd call PS3 version "defective" and "of beta quality."

OMG 7 seconds of my life I'll not get back!

Really if that's all there is to complain about, get a life, seriously.

That choppiness during HL2 would drive me nuts. I wonder how much of that can be attributes to EA rather than the cell processor?

The problem is that MOST muultiplatform games are BAD CRAPPY ports from X360.

http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?p=6223952

I know everyone here hates the ps3 or whatever but if I had one of either system I would get this game for it. Sure one has some autosave features and 5 seconds longer load times but they both still seem pretty fun with minor inconveniences.

I like how they didn't even bother including the PC version.

Regardless of the length of load times on whatever system, HL2's action is (and will always be) fundamentally broken by the shitty placement of the loading screens themselves. I mean, why in the hell would you put a load screen in the middle of a chase or high-speed vehicle sequence anyway? Gah! That's why I couldn't bring myself to finish it 3 years ago, and that's why I can't seem to choke it down now.

I'm surely not too glad I have one right now. It does great at gathering dust most days, and playing the occassional blu ray. Otherwise I rather play the games on the 360.

Damn waste of money for the time being. (Cue flame attacks)

How long will you Sony fanboys keep blaming it on the developers? Yes, maybe they didn't do all the extra work to port it, but you have Sony to blame for both the Cell and for 360 being the lead platform on most games, since Sony made bonehead moves that ruined it's installed base.

Even if theoretically it's just developers being evil and lazy and sucking, how does that make your choppy games better? It doesn't.

CoD4 on the PS3 looks worse by the way, I've got a source right here:

http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=223637

@ gonk

Holy f*ck LOL

Plyx, its obvious you're a Sony diehard, and I like that you're bringing out actual websites to back your points; however, Michael Moore presents "facts" to back his points, and the way both he and you twist information is basically the same.

Just because you present an article from "masconsole.net" doesn't mean you know what you're talking about. Blu Ray reads DIFFERENTLY than DVD. It doesn't matter the rate that it reads at (which was the info you presented), but how it is being read. This effectively cuts whatever rates people like you post into about 5/6th that of DVD.

Either way, its not like it matters besides slightly longer load times vs. how much you can fit on a disk. People like you just irritate me.

I don't trust Gametrailers. A lot of times they make posts without making statements of what versions of systems they used, and what type of connectors they used for media capture. A great example is Assassins Creed where they showed the PS3 version to be very washed out, and I never could replicate it on my 40 inch lcd via HDMI to vga, HDMI to dvi, Composite and even traditional RCA or connecting to a standard tv.

Anonim: Just like Xbox and Gamecube got last generation, sloppy ports of PS2 titles.

WTF plyx - later in this thread you offer to buy someones PS3, and here you say you are glad you have one. So which post has the lie.

Your credibility just went to sh*t. You're just a fanboy who says anything to fluff Sony.

The PS3 version seems to be hurting on framerates, aside from loading times.

I don't see the major issue, especially considering it's a port to the PS3 and not built for the PS3. Personally think it shouldn't have been ported since most people own it on the 360 or PC already.

As far as the status of my PS3? It is far from collecting dust and gets used daily. Anyone that says the PS3 is just for collecting dust is just hating for the sake of hating. Yes, the 360 has better games and may always have the better games, but the PS3 has plenty of good games for most of the general market to play.

I hate long loading times.
I think the ps3's load times will improve once developers get their $hit together.

Until then I'll be playing the 360 until then.

Even with so many issues, GameSpot still gave the PS3 version a 9.0, because OB is TOO good?

Whatever, I'm getting it :P

I might pick up the Orange Box but I don't think it is worth it for TF2, EP2, and Portal. I've already played the hell out of HL2 and Ep1. It would be better just to get what I want on Steam.

Overall the PS3 and 360 versions of HL2 look almost identical. They play the same as well. In fact they should since it is a port of a old PC game, it wouldn't be optimized for either system. It probably uses one core on the 360 and the main CPU of the PS3. The central core of the 360 is more powerful than the single main core of the PS3 and that is why 360 to PS3 ports suck. Most of them are not written from the get go to take advantage of the SPUs.

The 360 is just as hard to develop for as the PS3. The XBOX was a PC which was why it was very easy for PC developers to make games for it. Developers with console backgrounds had a harder time with the XBOX because they weren't used to the DirectX platform.

It has been said many times that games are easier if you develop for th ePS3 first and then port it to the 360. Why? becuase it is easier to bundle code together to work on a less complex processor than split code to work more efficiently using more cores. If it was that easy than all you would need is a tiny patch to single core programs to have them work on dual core machines. The truth is that the software needs to be written to take advantage of it in the first place. It is very hard to add the support later.

No, no, no Crono, the Xbox's multiplatform games were much better. See: Splinter Cell, Burnout 3, Madden, etc. etc. etc. They ran faster, less loading, looked better, and had XBL

I stand behind this because that's why I had an Xbox.

...makes me happy that I have both systems. Uncharted and WarHawk are awesome. OrangeBox, RockBand, and Halo3 are awesome on my 360. problem solved.

Graphics wise they seemed the same but the PS3 version does seem to have a worse frame rate and a slower load time. I was honestly wondering which system to pick this up on and i guess this makes the choice for me.

Seriously... if one more person (ie. ps3 fanboy) says that the dev's are lazy and it's all their fault i'll give up on this industry as it caters to a bunch of brainless goofballs that think they know it all. There is only ONE target for the blame, and it simply is Sony. What do they expect? That companies spend all the extra money and time required to deal with their crap tools, overly complicated hardware, and arrogant attitude when most companies are already struggling to deal with the increased costs of next-gen development? Even IF you spend all those resources the end result is nowhere near significantly superior enough to the 360, if at all, to warrant all those resources. Of course they will just chose to focus on the 360, it has solid tools, works out of the box and lots of previous code can more easily be augmented to work with it rather than being fully re-written in order to get a decent result. Sony had a head start and install base on its side last generation so Dev's put up with their crap but this time it's different. The original Xbox showed that life can be much easier for Dev's and this gen, together with MS's headstart, developers aren't as willing to bend over and take on up the rear just for the sake of Sony...

Actually I'd think this is more the fault of shoddy codding and optimization then the PS3.

Hmm... here we have a PC game written for Windows and DirectX.

A port to a Windows/DirectX game console is easy, and to a SomeOS/OpenGL game console takes some work.

Shocking!

Show a video of Crusin' USA on the Wii, and people flock to defend the hardware and it's capabilities. Show an obviously undercooked Valve game, and it's nothing but PS3 hate.

Meh. I never liked the Source engine, anyway.

I have a PS3, and I have to say, between the 360 and PS3 versions, I'd get...the PC version.