No problem man. Its the most comprehensive and, most importantly, unbiased comparison I've seen.

YOu tell 'em 'bout the graphical differences terpfen.

If developers do indeed point out that the PlayStation3 has superior graphics, then that's that =D.

People here crack me up, they bashed this game to death when it was PlayStation3 exlcusive and now they're all saying how much they love the game now. Bunch of hypocrates.

Anyway this is SEGA(company which SONY knocked around for years) =). No surprise.

reasons why this isn't that great:

Virtua Fighter doesn't sell well in the U.S.
360 doesn't sell well in Japan

so what's the point? Anyway there are way too many PlayStaion fans out there.

To darc requiem:
It appears as though you have been reading too many Pro-Microsoft articles.

"The 360 cpu has 6 [GENERAL PURPOSE] threads to the the Cells 2 [GENERAL PURPOSE]."
In addition to 2 General Purpose threads, Cell has 6 specialized threads, one for each SPE, while Xenon has none. There is a downside to specialized processing power, with the current developers kit, the developers have to use different compliers to take advantage of Cell Broadband Engine..

"The 360 has 6 times the bandwith 278.4 GBs to the PS3's 48 GBs."
PS3 bandwidth: 256MB 3.2GHz XDR going at 25.6 Gbs (3.2GBs) 256 GDDR3 going at 22.4 Gbs (2.8GBs)
360 bandwidth: 512MB GDDR3 going at 22.4 Gbs (2.8GBs) 10MB eDRAM Gbs (32GBs)
10MB is not good for texture mapping, but it can be useful for several other features, like anti-aliasing, alpha blending, or z buffering. eDRAM may make certain tasks faster, but its nothing significant.
PS3's 3.2GHz XDR memory is synchronous with the CPU, making it more efficient, and less power hungry.

"The 360 has lower load times. The 360s DVD drive is significantly faster than the PS3's Blu-Ray drive."
Although DL-DVD should usually be faster than Blu-Ray, it is not significantly faster. I have a feeling you are assuming the DVD drive is faster than the Blu-Ray drive because the DL-DVD drive for 360 is 12x and Blu-Ray for PS3 is 2x. The "x" means different speed for these different formats. It's like a 54x CD drive is faster than a 16x DVD drive. 12x DL-DVD goes at 8.2-15.9 MB/s, while a 2x Blu-Ray goes at a constant 8.6 MB/s.

"Its been known that the 360's GPU has the edge over the PS3's RSX GPU for quite some time now."
Xenos has the edge over RSX if you do a theoretical calculation of RSX being based on Geforce 6800. The truth is, RSX is based on Gefore 7800, and if you recalculate, RSX will have the edge over Xenos, but this shouldn't matter because the different is very small.

darc requiem, tell that to John Carmack.

"They are both powerful systems that are going to make excellent game platforms, but I have a bit of a preference for the 360%u2019s symmetric CPU architecture and excellent development tools," he said. "The PS3 will have a bit more peak power, but it will be easier to exploit the available power on the 360. Our next major title is being focused towards simultaneous release on 360, PS3, and PC."

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1974&Itemid=2

In other words... 360's easier to develop for, PS3 has more theoretical horsepower. And ease of development means absolutely nothing in a console war, given the utter nightmare that was the PS2... which wound up winning.

Why do people still believe Sony's BS when it comes to the power of the PS3? Outside of the superior floating point abilities of the Cell processor, a built in HDMI port, and the larger storage that Blu-Ray provides the PS3 is inferior to the 360.

The 360 cpu has 6 threads to the the Cells 2.

The 360 cpu has better integer and general purpose processing power.

The 360 has 6 times the bandwith 278.4 GBs to the PS3's 48 GBs.

The 360 has lower load times. The 360s DVD drive is significantly faster than the PS3's Blu-Ray drive.

Its been known that the 360's GPU has the edge over the PS3's RSX GPU for quite some time now.

The PS3 and 360 both have 512MBs of RAM but since the PS3 divides its RAM into 256MB for Main and 256MB for Video, it gives devs less flexibility. Its why 360 titles always seem to have better texturing than there PS3 counter parts. If you want to use 384MBs of the 360's 512MBs of RAM for textures you can. The PS3 doesn't provide that sort of flexibility.

Sony should have worried more about the PS3's chipset/RAM and less about the inclusion of a Blu-Ray drive.

"I have seen a few comparisons on gamespot. PS3 is better"

iadien, I think you'll find on the article you're referring to actually states the 360 games look better... The PS3 is more powerful than the 360, but not as much Sony might make you think.

"The White Engine is a graphics engine, and like any graphics engine, it can be reprogrammed to run on another platform."

At the considerable expense of time, money, and manpower. Such a decision would be made only if S-E determines that the expensive initial investment would eventually lead to significant profit. And I'm not sure if they really believe it will, given the 360's lackluster performance in Japan.

Still, score one for Microsoft, and minus one for Sony on this particular incident. I do have a couple of questions about this move, though. One, will the port be available in all regions, or is this meant for non-Japan territories, like how Armored Core 4's 360 version is available only outside of Japan? And two, what took Sega so long to announce this?

Yay, an inferior port of a game for a cruddy system, woot!

ehhhh...one of the only reasons left to buy a PS3 imo, is now MGS4...

"I have seen a few comparisons on gamespot. PS3 is better."

...for VF5? Wasn't that announced for the 360 today? I don't see how its possible for them to get 360 screenies so soon after this announcement...

Well, I'm definitely buying a 360 next summer then.

I'm extremely happy right now. Honestly though, I just hope that Microsoft doesn't try to force AM2 into shoehorning in online. The game simply doesn't work competitively when you introduce lag (any lag at ALL) into the equation.

That's my line!

i'm all for it assuming they don't micro-transact you to death.

soul4ger, i c wut u did thar.

Revo.
Lla.
S'ti.
S3SP.
Ruoy.
Lles.

"but hell, this could ease into other companies deciding to jump ship as well when they see their peers do it (konami, capcom, I'm lookin at you mgs/dmc)"

It really wouldn't surprise me if Square-enix jumps ships as well. The White Engine is a graphics engine, and like any graphics engine, it can be reprogrammed to run on another platform. When square-enix says that the White won't run on the 360, they're basically talking out of their butt, because Hideo Kojima himself said that even a game like MGS4 was possible on the 360. Also isn't the White Engine programmed in one of the C languages?

I not trying to start an argument. I'm just saying that if a game like VF5 is possible on the 360, then square-enix's developers are either lazy or don't want to make more money.

I can't wait! I love Virtua Fighter! THANK YOU SEGA.

mahew...the Tekken of PlayStation3? You do know there's a Tekken in the making, right? Just because there aren't images yet doesn't mean it's not in the making.

SEGA's kinda smart(finally)since they see the PlayStation3 doing better in Japan and 360 doing better here. They just want to sell in both places, at least EARLY in game's release.

Still PlayStation3 will outperform 360 when they're readily available.

This is interesting, because VF5 was kinda being dubbed the Tekken of PS3. Tekken 6 is nowhere to be seen, so VF5 had taken the role of the PS3 exclusive fighter.

Of course, it is not hard to remember Sega and Microsoft's close ties during the Xbox's initial phase.

Curiously, the press release makes it sound like the 360 version would be the superior one, and with it being released later, Sega could well have the necessary time for extra polish and features for the 360 version.

I wasn't expecting that, but I'll take it.

If I could only get Devil May Cry on the 360 then I wouldn't ever need to even consider purchasing a PS3 in the forseeable future.

ROFL.
DIDNT SEE THAT COMING.

Now hear the other side of NON-HATING comments(let the good 360 comments begin. Also hear how they'll praise this game).

Anyway, great game.

Wow.