[ULTROS!]

Seriously, they should release nice touched up or the best looking screens of the 360 version of FFXIII if they want to impress more people (those who own the 360) and there's almost to no coverage of the 360 version of FFXIII.

[Stefan™]

God SE get you act together. You're embarrassing yourselves with these half ass screenshots. My, how far have they fallen lately?

[Unknown Soldier]

Maybe Bink can support a higher bitrate than 2.2mbps? No idea if I'm right though.

Compressing with Bink Video

[sciplore]

Ugh $50 bucks for the faceplate now? Should have grabbed it at ten :/.

[MazingerDUDE]

(* PS3 version's running at 1280 x 720 2 x MSAA in case you didn't know)









* PS3 shot's from the demo build.


* I have removed the 'ground texture' shots, since it's rather premature to determine a difference in texture fidelity between two versions with whatever limited information available at the moment, especially on 360's side. I'll probably do some in depth comparison upon the game's release.

[Unknown Soldier]

You're putting a lot of effort into comparing screenshots which are at this point all but discredited. :lol

[androvsky]

Compressing with Bink Video

Use this table to get a starting data rate, and then you can start moving the rate up or down depending on the quality and file size:

Sounds like it can be increased. Wouldn't surprise me if it could, but that still leaves the question of how much can they up the bitrate and still fit all the cinemas on 3 discs, given the fact there will have to be a certain amount of duplication of the game data.

I will say that even with my 720p TV, the cinemas on the old Japanese PS3 demo disc look absolutely stunning. There's a lot of room for the 360 to be worse, but still acceptable.

[DMPrince]

Well, At least the Comparison Thread will probably be bigger than the NA Thread :lol.

[ULTROS!]

Are both batches discredited?

[ElFly]

360 version: lacks giant turtle

[badcrumble]

Nice catch on the missing foliage. And if it's really 1024x576... wow.

[Synless]

Nice catch on the missing foliage. And if it's really 1024x576... wow.

That would be a crazy low resolution......

[DMPrince]

what was the resolution for the demo build for the ps3?

[Kagari]

what was the resolution for the demo build for the ps3?

1280x720.

[Vamphuntr]

Maybe the foliage will pop in as you approach it's location :lol . I can't believe Square was that lazy, that resolution is disappointing. (If those screenshots are real and up to date).

[Community Forum]

360 version: lacks giant turtle

:lol :lol :lol

[DMPrince]

1280x720.

thanks.

If this all turns out to be true then I can't wait to hear how Microsoft will sell the game to the people that don't follow this shit. PR is awesome. can't wait <3 I already laughed at the bullet point from the 360 bundle :lol.

http://xs.to/image-0B1D_4B720E47.jpg

[Vanille]

What's up with that big black border on the left in the 360 screens? =/

[DMPrince]

What's up with that big black border on the left in the 360 screens? =/

Square Enix doesn't know how to crop in Photoshop? IDK.

[ULTROS!]

What's up with that big black border on the left in the 360 screens? =/

Lazy screen caps?

[Kagari]

What's up with that big black border on the left in the 360 screens? =/

Mandoric said it can happen with some capture devices.

[Shadowlink]

So when will we get actual decent screen caps?

[Vamphuntr]

Lazy screen caps?

Hey, at least there are no pointers on those. Seriously every topic about FFXIII are getting depressing. How the mighty have fallen.

[MazingerDUDE]

You're putting a lot of effort into comparing screenshots which are at this point all but discredited. :lol

Not at all, those shots are from the latest batch just released today. I checked its native res, and they are all running at 576p. I could only conclude that this is the first batch of genuine 360 shots. (unless SE was secretly making PS3 version running at 576p for the US release =p)

[Stefan™]

This is depressing, if true.

[DMPrince]

So when will we get actual decent screen caps?

I think we all should just wait 3 more weeks. this has just been one big clusterfuck after another. there's nothing the PR team can do now.

[Dresden]

Meh, that APZonerunner dude said that the two versions were nearly identical, I'd trust him over some questionable screenshots.

At least we don't have triumphant Sony fanboys running rampant on this board.

[ULTROS!]

Hey, at least there are no pointers on those. Seriously every topic about FFXIII are getting depressing. How the mighty have fallen.

At least we still have hope? for Versus XIII and Agito XIII. :P

[ZeroRay]

Don't know if the quality of the capture can affect resolution analysis but if it's true, then we'll have some fireworks on GAF (and the internet).

[Dice]

I would rather have 1080p no AA.

[h3ro]

At least we don't have triumphant Sony fanboys running rampant on this board.

Comments like this don't help. Don't goad them into responding and then point and complain about fanboys.

I knew way back when the game was first announced as a multiplatform game that the focus would shift from discussing the actual game content to this nonsense.


Screw this, I'm going to go play Lost Odyssey and blast Suteki Da Ne.

[Yoshichan]

What's up with that big black border on the left in the 360 screens? =/

Seriously, how do you people notice these stuff? It's like 1 millimeter.

[Shadowlink]

I think we all should just wait 3 more weeks. this has just been one big clusterfuck after another. there's nothing the PR team can do now.

I'm hoping some reviewers actually get the game soon so we can actually see some real screens.

[Rpgmonkey]

What's up with that big black border on the left in the 360 screens? =/

Quotes from previous discussion on that:

Usually 360 shots are captured directly from MS devkits, which have their own shotting utility. Plus, the black bar down the left side suggests a printscreened and hastily cropped image.

That's exactly my opinion - an intern hit printscreen over the display window they were playing in, leading to signature artifacting from certain cards' realtime mode, a distinctive overscan line, and the occasional floating mouse cursor.

[Lightning]

Did every FF game get hammered like this game is getting before release?

This is ridiculous.

[MazingerDUDE]

Don't know if the quality of the capture can affect resolution analysis but if it's true, then we'll have some fireworks on GAF (and the internet).

You can even get res analysis out of off-screen shots, if aliasing is clearing visible. For those new batch of 360 shots, it was rather easy reading as aliasing is very visible. Should check out the first pair of comparison shots back and forth, you'd see the difference in native res.

[pizzaroll]

Maybe the screens were capped from one of those streaming "HD" 576p vids.

[MazingerDUDE]

Maybe the screens were capped from one of those streaming "HD" 576p vids.

Nope, as huds are at 720p.

[h3ro]

Nope, as huds are at 720p.

Are you on the Beyond3D forums? The system/overlays you used to get the resolutions seems similar to how I've seen previous games analyzed on that site.

[Digital-Hero]

Good news. I was planning on buying the PS3 version. Seemed only fitting.

[miladesn]

Lazy shots or not I don't think it affects the resolution analysis.
Bayonetta indeed!! at least SEGA did a decent job as 360 to ps3 ports tend to be harder.

[MazingerDUDE]

Are you on the Beyond3D forums? The system/overlays you used to get the resolutions seems similar to how I've seen previous games analyzed on that site.

Yup, I'm the guy used to do res analysis at B3D, but I don't go there no more. I'm thinking of making home here at gaf :D

[Truespeed]

Nice catch on the missing foliage. And if it's really 1024x576... wow.

The extra foliage could be DLC.

[Firestorm]

ps3 has more water
360 can't render oceans confirmed

[Einbroch]

Lazy shots or not I don't think it affects the resolution analysis. Bayonetta indeed!! at least SEGA did a decent job as 360 to ps3 ports tend to be harder.

Bayonetta looked and played worse.

So far, we only assume that Final Fantasy XIII looks worse on the 360.

[Community Forum]

Did every FF game get hammered like this game is getting before release? This is ridiculous.

You're right, all those other multiplatform Final Fantasy titles didn't get nearly the scrutiny this one is getting.

[riceandbeans]

I think one of the other dudes on the forum might've just confirmed a PC version because that shot doesn't make sense.

When you compare the actual live rolling Xbox 360 footage (not screenshots!) from the Gametrailers interview, you get the textures are the same or equally close to the PS3 version.

Skip to 1:30 for the 360 footage

So either above is a PC shot or the 360 version. Because if that is the 360 version, then the GT footage was the PS3 version with a 360 HUD.

[Truespeed]

Lazy shots or not I don't think it affects the resolution analysis. Bayonetta indeed!! at least SEGA did a decent job as 360 to ps3 ports tend to be harder.

No Sega did not do a decent job. They phoned it in as usual.

[Vamphuntr]

I think one of the other dudes on the forum might've just confirmed a PC version because that shot doesn't make sense. When you compare the actual live rolling Xbox 360 footage (not screenshots!) from the Gametrailers interview, you get the textures are the same or equally close to the PS3 version. So either above is a PC shot or the 360 version. Because if that is the 360 version, then the GT footage was the PS3 version with a 360 HUD.

Jesus Christ, Square Enix PR/Marketing blows.

[InfiniteNine]

You're right, all those other multiplatform Final Fantasy titles didn't get nearly the scrutiny this one is getting.

Screw those PS1 ports! :lol :lol :lol