ORIGINAL: Byakko

The real heat comes out when the next wave of multi-platform games comes out this year. I' ll be looking at Assasin' s Creed mostly.

Even that won' t be a fair comparison though because not only is Ubisoft Microsoft sympathetic but 360 is the lead development platform.

360' s " power" is far more accessible, and whereas RSX should be simple enough for devs to get to grips with, CELL is as complex as PS2 architecture meaning that there' s a relatively steep learning curve. What that translates to is a slower graphical evolution whereby each generation of games will look progressively better and better, just like on PS2.

Right now only the best developers will be able to get great results from PS3, and many of those games (Lair, Heavenly Sword, Sigma etc) have already been delayed, requiring additional development time.

But meh, the best games from the best developers on 360 will look better than their PS3 equivalents.



With regard to Oblivion, is anybody actually still playing it, and will anybody be getting Shivering Isles?!

I recently started playing it again. Seems each time I restart I find somthing more or somthing different to do. I regret restarting cause I never fully develope my character. I wanna start buying shops and what not since I have yet to reach the level required yet.

Once my computer upgrades arriv ehowever I may jump ship to the PC version just so I can add even more to the vast gaming with some mods. Like Morrowind I will probably keep going back to this game again and again, even more so now with the PC version.

I read (i think at IGN) that the xbox 360 version is also goin to get smoother textures like the ps3 one through a later update ..

Wasn' t there suppose to be this mega Oblivion edition that had pretty much all the ' critical' updates along with Shivering Isles expansion for the 360?

Would that version look better than the earlier copies that weren' t bought AFTER the developers had time to fix the bugs and optimize?

Probably a Game of the Year edition type deal like they had with Morrowind for Xbox. It included the 2 additonal major expansions dunno about bug fixes and optimization tho.

But with Xbox Live now better implented and patches now easily made available I dont think theyd need to do such a thing. Tho they could. However Shivering Isle has already been announced as downloadable content as well as retail.

With regard to Oblivion, is anybody actually still playing it, and will anybody be getting Shivering Isles?!

Yeah, about two months ago i tried to finish it and i downloaded an update from live and the only glitch i had was i was swimming in mid air, but it suddenly stopped. But no i gave up on oblivion

With regard to Oblivion, is anybody actually still playing it, and will anybody be getting Shivering Isles?!

I still haven' t played through it once! I got to mess around for about a half an hour, and you' re all well aware of how far that' ll get you.

Iv finished it, and will definetely get Knights of the Nine, and Shimmering Isles someday when my friend has finished playing it!