Wii U vs. PS3 vs. Xbox 360 Screenshot Showdown

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14 Comments

1. 

   Ramon Aranda

   January 25, 2013 at 7:27 AM

   Gimme some Majora’s Mask in HD and I’m happy!

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2. 

   Michelle

   January 25, 2013 at 10:13 PM

   WTF! Is this!? The only way you can compare a game across multiple platforms is a by comparing one that releases at the same time on all platforms.

   You can’t compare ports that had more development time on the Wii U and you can’t compare Wii U exclusives to Sony or Microsoft exclusives, it’s just stupid.

   As far as right now there is no real way to compare the graphics simply because there haven’t been any games for the Wii U that have released on other systems at the exact same time. When you have the same game, same development time and same release dates on PS3, Xbox 360 and the Wii U compare away.. but until then save yourself the embarrassment and waste of time for people to even read this.

   I mean literally this entire thing was pointless and a complete waste of time because the data just doesn’t match. I mean it’s like a science experiment you can’t compare something across the board when all the variables you want to compare with are different, you have to insure everything is exactly the same before you start trying to compare something.

   Same could be said for photography, I can’t compare a photo that I had taken from several different angles in each shot, each shot has to be in exactly the same position as the rest, the lighting the same, the time of day the same and the camera the same along with all the settings ect.

   I really didn’t get the point of making this article and calling it a showdown of all things. As if it’s the end all to whether or not the Wii U has the best graphics.

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     Justin Weinblatt

     January 26, 2013 at 8:40 AM

     Call of Duty is consistently better on the X-Box 360. Is that because the 360 is a more powerful system? No, it’s because the game was designed with the X-Box 360 in mind. If you make a game for one platform and port it to others, 9 out of 10 times it’s going to look worse on the ported version, regardless of the power difference between the two systems. Even PC ports of console games often look terrible for this reason, so multiplatform games aren’t always the best thing to use for comparison.

     Naturally, this method has its disadvantages as well, and I definitely recognize this. The point of this article was simple. The power of the Wii U compared to the PS3 is still in question. Now that we have some games that were a) not rushed and b) were made for the Wii U, we have a better idea of what the system is capable of. It’s not like I’m forcing people to decide here and now which is better. Only reason its called a showdown is because it sounds a bit catchier.

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3. 

   DestryLP

   January 25, 2013 at 11:06 PM

   The last Halo picture is Halo 3…

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     Justin Weinblatt

     January 26, 2013 at 8:30 AM

     How embarrassing. Totally my bad.

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       Ramon Aranda

       January 26, 2013 at 9:39 AM

       Updated that last Halo screenshot with a Halo 4 one.

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4. 

   Liam Scott

   January 26, 2013 at 2:58 AM

   Why you using a halo 3 screenshot ??

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5. 

   Akuma

   January 26, 2013 at 5:06 AM

   You’re kidding right?
   You even have a Halo 3 Screen shot in there as a Halo 4 shot…

   You picked poor screens from Uncharted, honestly, this was pointless. The WiiU is finally on par with the 360 and PS3, now we’ll have HD games across all platforms, lets just play them all~

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6. 

   KingAnon

   January 26, 2013 at 6:18 AM

   PS3 wins as expected.

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7. 

   TKK

   January 26, 2013 at 7:44 AM

   lol….yeah yeah yeah, the 360 sucks, the wii u sucks…..the ps3 is the best ! Uncharted 3 linear as hell is the best looking game ever ! also nice Halo 3 screenshot.

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8. 

   Ramon Aranda

   January 26, 2013 at 9:40 AM

   Updated that last Halo screenshot to be of Halo 4 (thanks for the heads-up)

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9. 

   2wisted

   January 26, 2013 at 11:30 AM

   If you’re going to use Halo 4 shots, at least use good ones.
   http://www.examiner.com/article/halo-4-mythic-difficulty-level-explained-by-343-slayer-pro-gets-walkthrough

   http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/misc/movies/gsm_169_halo_4_spartan_ops_ch6_ep3_vf_x360_011812_m1_640.jpg#

   http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/2e/6d/1348857003_5913_dawn.jpg

   That slideshow of shots shows off the scale of Halo and the immense detail. The 2nd to last shot you used isn’t bad, but it’s too clean, which doesn’t show off the detail like those shots.

   Even Halo 4 isn’t fair, because it’s far larger than Uncharted 3 and does much more, try Gears 3.

   http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/121/1215205/gears-of-war-3-20111220001848344.jpg

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10. 

    ppSucks

    January 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM

    Yup…. Uncharted 3 by a landslide….

    Here are some images from a random search; I’m not even trying and yet I found better examples than the images you used. Bias much?

    http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Uncharted3DrakesDeception/Uncharted3DrakesDeceptionMedia/5244222515_77f04a78e4_o.jpg

    http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1519i57C0EC843E3F42E8/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1

    http://0.tqn.com/d/playstation/1/0/e/B/Uncharted_2__Among_Thieves-PlayStation_3Screenshots16669Uncharted2_01.jpg

    http://images.eurogamer.net/2011/articles//a/1/4/1/8/3/2/8/new_uc3_3d_2.bmp.jpg

    http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/9/2011/08/18848airport_ladder.jpg

    http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/Uncharted3DrakesDeception/awkward-reunion.jpg

    http://www.gamersbook.com/repository/images/_variations/3/c/3c0411684724c09191917149fd7ee73f_lightbox.jpg?v=0

    http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111110181445/uncharted/images/1/1d/Elena_Nate_U3.png

    And those are in-game, 360 kiddies.

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11. 

    2wisted

    January 26, 2013 at 4:57 PM

    http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/26/gridlock-final-gears-of-war-3-map-revealed-with-screens-b-roll-footage/

    I know you down-voted me, so take a look at those screens at the bottom of the article, does everything Uncharted 3 does, except Halo 4 has 40+ enemies on screen, 4 player co-op, multiple vehicles and bigger levels as well as a larger skybox, meaning rendering is far harder.

    Really not hard to get those graphics in Uncharted when you have no co-op, levels the size of a shed, a ton of scripted sequences and low-resolution alpha effects + explosions. BTW, 3 of your images are cutscenes, they aren’t in game, they’re rendered in the in-game engine but have up scaled textures and AA during cutscenes, that’s why Drake looks better in cutscenes than in real game-play, as well as there being fewer jaggies.

    In cutscenes Halo 4 looks like this

    http://ladygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/halo-4-1.jpg
    http://www.oxmonline.com/files/u49901/infinity_lasky_03-w.jpg

    Whereas in-game, it looks like this:

    http://www.thereticule.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Halo-4-CTF-Exile-Map.jpg
    http://thecontrolleronline.com/wp/wp-content/gallery/halo-4-e3-2012-gallery/halo-4-e3-2012-screenshot-8.jpg
    http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2012/12/halo_inline4-610×343.jpg

    Best-looking console game is Crysis 3 anyway, but Uncharted 3 hardly wins by a ”landslide”.

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