Summation

[chuckro]

40" (or larger) HD TV: $1,000
XBox 360: $300
Final Fantasy 13: $60
Ikea TV stand suitable new TV: $200
Trip to Ikea: 1 day plus borrowing/renting appropriate car (or +$100 for shipping)
Dealing with Comcast: ~several days of my life

Playing FF13: Priceless Apparently not worth it, after all...

Comments

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's interesting. I read that having the game on Blu-Ray rather than on DVDs where higher compression is required, might make the game crisper on PS3. You're probably right that they'll be the same, though.

Anyway, I also (more importantly) bought the PS3 in anticipation of wanting to play FF versus 13, which is exclusive to PS3.

[hyouneko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most games on the PS3 use compressed graphics to begin with. Since the 360 uses dvd's, they already know they'll be space constrained on one platform (which also happens to sell more games and have more consoles in the wild). Having uncompressed graphics on the PS3 and compressed on the 360 would mean a lot of duplicated work, which just isn't economical in terms of money and time.

Also, the initial press showings have come back with the versions looking almost identical.