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PlayStation 3 More Powerful Than Xbox 360 Says Developers

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The video game industry has been debating for years on which console has the the better graphics, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.

Julien Merceron, Worldwide Technical Director for Square, decided to chip in his opinion on the console war.

“Some consumers could have gotten the feeling in 2006/2007 that – graphically – Xbox 360 games were more advanced, but today it is quite different in fact!”

“Personally, I’d say that – on PS3 – I believe there are some major improvements that can still be done, taking advantage of parallelisation and using more of the CPU for graphics tasks. At the end of current home Console life cycle, it is very possible consumers might get the feeling PS3 is slightly ahead of Xbox 360 in terms of graphics, but it will only happen if developers dedicate time to really push things on PS3!”

Yosuke Hayashi from Team Ninja also agrees that PlayStation 3 is more powerful than Xbox 360. “PS3 came out a year later than the X360.  Because of its later arrival, I would say that the PS3 has a slight advantage in performance,” he said.

Source: Industry Gamers

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Sony Reports PlayStation 3 Has Sold 56 Million Units Worldwide

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Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 has sold 56 million units worldwide. PS3 rival Xbox 360 launched a year before Sony released its next-gen and it has sold 57.3 million units to date.

Sony was able to catch up to Microsoft when they released the PS3 Slim model in 2009. There were 3.7 million PS3 consoles sold during the quarter ending September 30, which is an increase from the 3.5 million sold during the same time last year. Software sales have totaled to 37.4 million units.

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Ubisoft Releasing Free Driver: San Francisco Multiplayer Content

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It has been confirmed that Ubisoft will be releasing free multiplayer content and game-to-web services for Driver: San Francisco.

The multiplayer content will be available on September 15 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The content will include 12 new online maps, and 10 additional maps will be available over the next 10 weeks.

Gamers will be able to start the game-to-web services today via Driver Club.

-Unlock exclusive achievements.
-Find your stats and check the leaderboards
-Showcase your film director clips.
-See and rate your friends’ clips.
-Review the Community facts.
-Follow your friends’ activities using the Driver Social feed.

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EA Questions What PS4 Can Offer Current Gamers

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What can PS4 offer current gamers?EA President Frank Gibeau cited in an interview with CVG that video games are content with PlayStation 3, and questions what PlayStation 4 would be able to bring to the table.

Gibeau used Battlefield 3 as an example to showcase how the current generation of consoles, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 having plenty of juice left.

“It’s hard for me to conceive what you would do on a PlayStation 4. The displays are already 1080p, you’re already connected to the internet… You could make it faster, you could have more polys and you could up the graphics a little bit… but at what cost?

It’ll be interesting to see how [Sony and Microsoft] think about it in terms of the next generation but it seems to me that customers are happy, and we’re happy to build games on [360 and PlayStation 3] right now.”

Gibeau stated the lifespans of current video game consoles are much longer now compared to the past, and the digital age is changing how consumers get their entertainment.

“One of the things that we like is that the technology is consistent, and we believe that there are still things that you can do on these systems… we haven’t quite squeezed the last once of hardware horsepower out of these things, as you can see with Battlefield 3.”