Now, I'm not criticizing the PS3 by any means. I don't own one (yet -- maybe), and I've actually really wanted to see Sony's Cell processor technology succeed, if not necessarily Blu-ray (it just reminds me of the whole Betamax fiasco).
Still, Sony has been dropping the ball like a retarded monkey with buttered hands for a while now. Tell us if you've experienced the same downgraded visuals with your backwards-compatible PS2 games on your PS3. If the claim in the video is right -- and I think the evidence is compelling -- that all it would take is a simple firmware upgrade to smooth over those edges, then we'll collectively let Sony know that we don't appreciate being bent over like just another monkey (NSFW).
[Thanks for the tip, Teddy]
[Update: I actually met and spoke with a Sony PS3 hardware rep today and brought up this issue. This is the first he had heard of such a thing and said they were having no issues like this that he was aware of. He did mention that using an HDMI cable may have this effect. -- Robert Summa]
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12:02 PM on 12.13.2006
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-Ted
you're welcome
This may be a problem with the way the PS3 is essentially designed, as I notice the same problem in PS3 games as well.
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Yeah I'm not impressed with the PS3. My friend got one and he has done some complaining about this specific issue. Eh.
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psh
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....wait what?
The important thing here is the jaggies and the lower quality looking textures, which are both undeniably obvious here.
Oh, and uh... SONY
Didn't Microsoft get approval to trademark M$ recently? I coulda sworn I saw that somewhere...
that is really fucking bad.
some one should do a Wii/GC comparison? just for the hell of it?
That being said, JAGGIES. Holy shnikeys do PS2 games look like complete ass on the PS3. Would it really be as simple as a firmware patch to fix? I was wanting to get a PS3 eventually but not like this... not like this...
Also the video is a major joke, the dramatic music of the beginning seems fit for "loose change" or "The Pinochet Genocide Trial" not a goddamn video game image comparison! "Check image B is a crime against humanity!" I mean come on people!
Anyway, until it gets fixed, it's just another tally on the board for the 360.
The colors in FFX are a huge part of the damn game, imo. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. There is no way I'm getting a SONY PS3. :P
I won't even go into the bizarre comparison to Loose Change.
This isn't the fucking World Trade Center.
It's yet another reason not to buy a PS3.
The resolution you get on the PS3 backward function looks exactly like our freaking PAL games do on a regular PS2!
That's right, us Europeans get the games twice as expensive, 3 month later, and they look like shit.
Thank god for RGB and importing games.
i chalked it up to the way my tv handles the upscale and interpolation since i never noticed that type of visual on my old crt with composite cables.
as much as i dont want to admit it, i think it may be a tv issue/cable/resolution issue, as opposed to a problem strictly with the way ps3 handles ps2/1 games.
So they got a Ps3 and a ps2 to match side by side and frame by frame.
Bullcrap. It's possible but it takes a lot of time. If their site was devoted to video in anyway I might it seriously but it looks like the exact same image side by side with some image processing applied to make it look different.
says that it is only on very few and certin games. Unfortunatly FF titles are in the list. For me that makes me sad. Not as sad as not having a Wii or PS2... or even FFXII but sad in a I wish I could be having that problems kind of envious sad.
I had a PS2 and it looked like crap right alongside the GC on the same TV. If you have a standard CRT television or set that simply isnt all that great compared to todays tech. Then everything looks just fine.
You cant feed shit graphics onto a display that natively displays 2 to 3 times the resolution. Its not Sonys fault its just the way it is. The Wii also looks just as shitty. Sorry though. The Wii has some fun points but graphically they coulda atleast moved up to 5 yrs ago Graphics. Far Cry looks like first gen Doom for fuck sakes.
Sony has come out with a fine product. Theres a shitload of PS2 games so give em a break. They've shown that firmware upgrades are going to be plenty and they will get it underway just fine.
Being able to upscale to HD with some serious anti aliasing would certainly help though. Agreed on that point.
But ya. Its your tv sets people. Its what sucks about having todays generation toys. Anything less than HD is pretty gay all around.
Rob