Lens of Truth Staff | 
January 18, 2010 | 
Update: After some re-analysis of the footage, it seems that our numbers were inaccurate during some terrifically “tear-iffic” scenes. Special thanks to ps360 for pointing this out! That being said, the analyzer has been re-tooled and is now better than ever. The stats and links below have been updated to reflect the new, accurate video and footage.
“…Bayonetta can be summed up as hypersexualized…”
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Head2Head – Bayonetta Analysis We go Head2Head with Bayonetta for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. |
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This week Play n Trade (Lake Mary), supplied the Lens of Truth with retail versions of Bayonetta. After being scrutinized for the demo, the Lens of Truth team decided to hold off until the final version was out, to ensure a complete analysis. Watch the video and read on for our complete findings.
Graphics: The style of Bayonetta can be summed up as hypersexualized. There’s just no hiding it. Bayonetta doesn’t just happen to be the epitome of every female game character, she embraces it, and even licks it. Textures on characters, such as Bayonetta, look sharper on the Xbox 360. Although the Playstation 3’s texture are of good quality, when comparing to the Xbox 360, you can tell certain aspects (such as normal maps) look better on the latter. Overall, however, the textures look very similar and although better on the Xbox 360, this won’t be terribly distracting. This is because the Playstation 3 has a bigger issue to deal with. When compared, the Playstation 3 has a flatter look. The Xbox 360 pops with color and becomes a very vibrant scene, which compliments the characters and music. Having a flatter look makes everything in the game look dull.
Performance: As mentioned before, Bayonetta’s publisher, Sega, was heavily criticized for the poor port when the demo was first shown at the trade shows. With Bayonetta under the gun, Sega should have stepped up their efforts to make the game a perfect port. However, the retail version suggests that Sega simply wasn’t interested in saving face. The performances are almost polar. The Xbox 360 runs at up to 60 FPS, while the Playstation 3 runs at only 30. When playing, you can actually feel the difference. The Playstation 3 feels like a more slowly-paced game, where as the Xbox 360 keeps the fast pace, further tying together the hyper-speed to the hyper-style. But keep in mind neither console ran at full frames. Despite having the potential for running at 60 FPS, the Xbox 360 ran more at 46. The Playstation 3 did not fare better. Its potential 30 FPS, actually ran more at 26. The Xbox 360 also had about 13 percent of torn frames, while the Playstation 3 had over 42 percent. The analyzer showed that in the end the Xbox 360 performed better. However, overall this game was a very unstable. And it also showed how different these games were under the hood.
| PlayStation 3 Frame Analysis | Xbox 360 Frame Analysis |
| Clip 1: Length of clip: 3567 frames Average FPS of clip: 23.31 Percent of torn frames: 36.72 |
Clip 1: Length of clip: 3567 frames Average FPS of clip: 51.98 Percent of torn frames: 61.03 |
| Clip 2: Length of clip: 3042 frames Average FPS of clip: 25.16 Percent of torn frames: 18.84 |
Clip 2: Length of clip: 3042 frames Average FPS of clip: 29.95 Percent of torn frames: 0.13 |
| Clip 3: Length of clip: 1521 frames Average FPS of clip: 26.68 Percent of torn frames: 7.86 |
Clip 3: Length of clip: 1521 frames Average FPS of clip: 50.99 Percent of torn frames: 14.54 |
| Clip 4: Length of clip: 3108 frames Average FPS of clip: 29.15 Percent of torn frames: 11.71 |
Clip 4: Length of clip: 3108 frames Average FPS of clip: 51.19 Percent of torn frames: 16.02 |
| Clip 5: Length of clip: 2633 frames Average FPS of clip: 22.76 Percent of torn frames: 7.08 |
Clip 5: Length of clip: 2633 frames Average FPS of clip: 30.66 Percent of torn frames: 0.72 |
| Clip 6: Length of clip: 2041 frames Average FPS of clip: 40.45 Percent of torn frames: 8.16 |
Clip 6: Length of clip: 2041 frames Average FPS of clip: 58.96 Percent of torn frames: 1.12 |
| Clip 7: Length of clip: 1453 frames Average FPS of clip: 39.59 Percent of torn frames: 5.11 |
Clip 7: Length of clip: 1453 frames Average FPS of clip: 59.61 Percent of torn frames: 0.30 |
| Global percent of torn frames: 44.51 Global average FPS: 28.27 |
Global percent of torn frames: 32.12 Global average FPS: 46.12 |
Loading: This game redefined loading. We typically focus on load times between levels, but Bayonetta, once again, was unique. With the game-play, anytime you collected an item, the game would pause and an image would display across the entire screen with a description. On the Xbox 360, this was quick and smooth. With the Playstation 3, this would also require a loading progress bar before the image would appear. But the loading issue wasn’t only with objects. Even when you went into your menu, the Playstation 3 would pause to load, while the Xbox 360 would jump right in. We wondered if an mandatory install would have cleaned up this issue on the Playstation 3 and which leads us to wonder why Sega decided against a mandatory install for the Playstation3.
Load Time 1: PlayStation 3 – 21 sec / Xbox 360 – 14 sec
Load Time 2: PlayStation 3 – 32 sec / Xbox 360 – 16 sec
Load Time 3: PlayStation 3 – 43 sec / Xbox 360 – 19 sec
Load Time 4: PlayStation 3 – 48 sec / Xbox 360 – 19 sec
Roll over to see the differences. Here we compare the different HDMI settings between the Xbox 360and PlayStation 3.
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Conclusion, Technical Score and Staff Choice on Page 2.
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I haven’t played the PS3 version, but I don’t see how the screen tearing figure for the 360 version can be right, because I’ve played through half the game and I’ve seen hardly any screen tearing at all.
Does the update to this H2H take into account the patch for the PS3 version? Will you be doing an update to the Darksiders H2H now that a patch for the 360 version has been released?
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ps3 looks blurry as shit
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For me, I am really concern on the loading time rather than the tearing of graphics. PS3 really sucks in such loading time. Luckily, Sega released a fix with hardware install to improve the loading time….. however.
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“Although character models and most environments share the same texture quality…”
I love how you say this and the very first image shows huge disparity in character model textures.
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Well this is why it looked better on the xbox and why i did better on it
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man, total domination by the 360. shame on sega! i haven’t seen a port this bad since ghostbusters…
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dont blame the developers for the ps3’s short comings. The rsx is a crappy chip and just can’t pump out the pixels needed to keep up with the might of 360.
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