This is kind of like being told, "Hey, I know you were coming here to have sex with Scarlett Johansson, but it turns out you have to have sex with Adriana Lima instead."

ENOUGH JOYSTICK.

i would still be slightly dissapointed kayel, cause scarlett is teh sexy

But see that's exactly the problem, Joystiq. EVERYBODY CARES. This is exactly what makes up a 360/PS3 owner. Who has the higher resolution? This is all they bicker about back and forth. Look at the comments, they're up to 130!!

Sony owners boasted 1080p when PS3 was announced. 360 owners scoffed at them when the Elite was announced with HDMI.

Meanwhile us Wii owners are over here with the best input device (again) of any console this generation.

@Co
to be honest.. i personally think that the Wii is an incomplete system without GTA IV!! i mean its just too awesome..

its awesome enough that i couldn't care less which version is better.. as long as i play it!!

btw, i was at a friends house who owns an xbox 360 and he had GTA IV as well, and i brought my ps3 with GTA IV.. we went on rampage on both the consoles.. and to be honest they are identical.. i couldn't even see any color differences!! but owell that might just be my GTA IV Fanboy side..


Greeetzz

forgot to mention, it was a 50" 1080p tv

Let the 360 boys have their fun. It sorta pisses me off sometimes that i see all the PS3 fanboys treat the 360 in such a condescending manner. Even if it is 640p the ps3 fanboys will still argue that it looks better on their system regardless if they make any sense or not. Personally i dont even own GTA, not my sorta game.

Anyways i love watching these guys argue.

All around me are familiar faces, worn out faces, worn out places

"Even if it is 640p the ps3 fanboys will still argue that it looks better on their system regardless if they make any sense or not."

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And it does look better. The PS3 has slightly better anti-aliasing and doesn't seem to suffer from dithering as bad as the 360 version does, based on what I've seen. It also has less texture pop thanks to that annoying hard drive install.

Resolution isn't exactly an end-all if you have other things to make up for it, i.e. anti-aliasing, depth of field processing, advanced lighting, motion blur, etc. Look at Call of Duty 4 - that game looks fantastic and better than a lot of 720p games and it's running at something like 600p on both systems. They've got some really good anti-aliasing going for them in that game, as well as some nice DoF effects. Then look at Halo 3 at 640p - unfortunately the game has little to no anti-aliasing, so the lower resolution really haps bring out the jaggies.

Oh, and for the record, I own and play the 360 version of GTA4.

Hook line and sinker

DWells, it wouldn't need that extra bit of anti-aliasing had the game run at 720p like the 360 version... Then again, it is harder to run higher resolutions than just anti-aliasing so it figures something like this would happen.

ORLY?

I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER?

All your base belong to us!

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

You just mixed YTMND,4chan,something awful and Lolcatz in the same post

Oh shi-

And Star Trek you mean... damn kids...

Hey fox hound, I made screen printed shirts with the fox hound logo on it. full color Let me know if you want to buy one.

The game is rendered at 640p. The numbers on the back of the box refer to the video output so you know it'll be compatible with your TV.

Jagzi11a ---
I'll have to get back to you on that; I'm actually in the middle of a lease exit/move to another place. So funds are tied up supporting that craziness. @_@ Much thanks though, I'll have to ask you about it later on.

voodoo_craig ---
Thanks for the heads up. I always saw it on the back of boxes, but was unsure. :]

THE SYSTEM I PURCHASED IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER SYSTEM YOU PURCHASED!!!!

Not to brag, but if the ps3 version runs better than the 360 version then color me confused cause my 360 GTA runs impeccable.

No framerate dips no matter how crazy it got, no pop up, no glitching. I even took about 30 minutes out to look for pop up only and I couldn't find anything, not even a single tree popping up. It literally runs flawless on my 360.

i agree with jordan...except ive seen somepop in on multiplayer

Since I don't have the 360 version myself (and if I did have both systems, I sure as hell wouldn't be buying a game twice) I'm left with the observation by websites reviewing them both. Don't kill the messenger.

I hear ya though. Half Life 2 is far from "unplayable", and I only noticed some framerate drops in episode 2.

Hop in a heli... you'll see some pop up then

OH! forgot to mention that exclusive DLC also :P

Doesn't freeze for you, plenty of 360 owners having the freezing issue chief.

80 extra P's ftw? lol

The PS3 version has richer lighting and better filters--if you look at comparison videos that show cutscene footage, it's quite easy to see that the 360 version looks more "fake" and artificial, a similar scenario to playing an old PC game that you force to run at super-high resolutions.

I don't care about Achievements, my TV upscales the game to 1080p (with HDMI, no less), I haven't had any trouble playing multiplayer (Free Mode FTW!), it hasn't frozen on me once, and the install only took like 7 minutes.

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that my 360 is a piece of shit that shuts off randomly and only displays in HD sometimes. By sometimes I mean you have to wiggle the component cable (no HDMI, thanks MS) in the port until it sits just right, and even then the slightest wind will readjust it just so much that it reverts back to SD (which is what causes the 360 to shut off).

My XBL subscription just ran out a few weeks ago too, so to play multiplayer on the 360 version (at least, one month from now) I'd have to throw down another $50. I can't even connect to XBL because to do so I'd have to turn my account into a Silver account, which is a hassle I just don't feel like dealing with. So not only can I not access the DLC, I don't care about it enough to go through the motions to be able to.

So you see, it's all situational. Don't act like your situation is the situation everybody is in, making the 360 version of GTA IV the grand master of all. Fucking fanboy.

my 360 version froze on my 6 times in 3 hours last night.

Online that works? well, that is a rockstar issue for the ps3, but I froze while loading rooms too. go xbl

achievements? how bout this achievmenement...you fail at life. I play games to play games, to feel special about doing something stupid in a video game.

by the friggin game for whatever system you want..it doesn't matter.

Glen

Sit tight, the waaaaaambulance is on its way buddy. Everything is going to be A OK!

joeyg

calm...the fuck...down


seriously

Sorry SDF, defend all you want. The 360 version is the one to get. Nothing will change that.

"Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that my 360 is a piece of shit that shuts off randomly and only displays in HD sometimes. By sometimes I mean you have to wiggle the component cable (no HDMI, thanks MS) in the port until it sits just right, and even then the slightest wind will readjust it just so much that it reverts back to SD (which is what causes the 360 to shut off)."

???

xFenixKnightx, haha, very funny. Actually, not really. Thinking that legitimate beefs with a system is "whining" is really, really, ignorant. I guess all the people sending their RRoD 360's back to Microsoft need to shut up and wait for Bungie's waaaaaambulance to show up too?

rv, what's the "??" for? I mean exactly what I say. That's what my 360 does. The AV input is sketchy.

Glen, sell your 360 and use the money to buy one of those helmets, since you're obviously a retard.

I'm not the retard that sells sketchy products.

I'm also not the retard to trolls the internet calling people retards.

But I am the retard who doesn't sell his 360 because he really wants to play Gears 2...

Thats just very strange. If its still under warranty you should send it in, although I guess its not because you put up with that problem.

It might be under warranty. This is my 3rd 360, so I don't think I bought it more than a year ago.

"My XBL subscription just ran out a few weeks ago too, so to play multiplayer on the 360 version (at least, one month from now) I'd have to throw down another $50. I can't even connect to XBL because to do so I'd have to turn my account into a Silver account, which is a hassle I just don't feel like dealing with. So not only can I not access the DLC, I don't care about it enough to go through the motions to be able to."

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. When your gold subscription runs out it AUTOMATICALLY switches to a silver account, it must be really hard to go through the motions to do that.

Really? Then why can't I access XBL Marketplace? I know for a fact that it's not my internet. Maybe it's because I had my Gold account switched to "auto-renew," but when the time came I didn't have $50 in my account. I got an e-mail about it and everything.

Glen, it automatically goes to silver account if you don’t have the money to pay for a gold auto subscription. I don’t know what your net problem is, but that’s the way it has worked for the rest of the world – so the issue is on your end.

Example: If you use a 30 day gold pass, at the end it goes into a silver account by itself. I have done it on my other accounts before - and never had to tell it to do anything for that reversion to take place.

As far as your AV issue - you have a bad connector, so send it in for warranty repair. I have not heard that issue as being a common one.

Seriously. No matter what your system, it's a must have.

Is the online fixed yet though? Didn't check before heading to work this morning...

All this talk of pop-in or pop-up on 360 and I really havent noticed it. If its happening I guess its not bothering me enough to notice ot care. Only thing I notice is the flash or flicker shadows but thats on both versions.

After reading the comments early yesterday and not pickin up the game until that afternoon, I was expecting this to be an issue on the 360 version by the way alot of people were commenting. But after playing for around 3hrs, I haven't ran into a magical tree or trashcan (or crackhead for that matter) because of popup.

In my opinion, the 360 pop-up "problem" is one of those things you wouldn't really pay much attention to if you didn't read about it first from someone else... kinda like a certain 640p "issue" we're discussing right now.

If you're in it to have fun, neither the pop-up on the 360 or the missing pixels on the PS3 will bother you as neither seems to hinder gameplay.