October 31st, 2011
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Welcome back for another exciting Head2Head! Today we take a closer look at the demo for Sega’s Sonic Generations on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Generations mixes old and new Sonic together for a fresh Sonic experience — but which platform should you be picking it up for? Have a look below to judge for yourself.
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360 seems a bit crisper… gotta download both demos now to see performance!
i’m gone say it this way, ps3 has lost another one
Lol, I’m glad that the 360 has won a game that probably won’t even get 200k sales at launch. This is no game to be proud of lol
But, it’s be expected from an Xbot, seeming as you guys just lost the Need for Speed screenshot head2head and the massive Battlefield 3 analysis. Saw your comments, and from the looks of it, you got owned pretty hard and the stuff you said was pretty stupid
But back on topic, I guess you guys did get this one. But, Who Cares!! Win a head2head that actually matters.
actually I think it’s going to do very well, while the demo they released at E3 controlled sluggishly. the new demo actually controls quite well. both the modes played smoothly with a very awesome sense of speed and the only gripe is that it needs to run at a higher framerate (runs around 30 when it should honestly be 60)
also Battlefield 3 should have been a tie, the performance side should have evened it out when comparing to older head2heads…
I did my own system comparison as well, and these screens show exactly what I noticed, being that the 360 version is sharper. What you can’t see here, though, is that the game engine runs smoother on the 360 as well. Not that the PS3 version is choppy, mind you, it just feels a bit sluggish.
Asty
both versions looks like crap :/
xbox360 has more grass and is more defined (+ native res?)
motion blur on the ps3 version is more pronounced.
i have been a member for along time , i usually just read the crazy comments that you guys post. i guess ill put my 2 cents in on this 1 though. sega should be ashamed , a simple game like sonic which is not taxing at all on either system shouldnt be blurry on the ps3 , this makes no sense .
I agree. This shouldn’t have happened. But the 360 is so easy to develop on. Sad…
I guess Sonic team still hate Sony.
They look quite good, especially the pseudo-radiosity thing, but the framerate just seems too low for a sonic game.
Which is why Im getting it on PC. Sonic should be 60fps.
sonic should be run over by a ten tonne truck, bloomin orrible game. always thought it was a poor, poor mans mario
Oh not again, this games doesn’t need all that complicated tech to run smooth in both system. how come it looks blur in PS3?
QAA strikes again… lazy port. But I really don’t care for this game . Sonic has not been good since the Genesis days
HUGE mistake that it’s not 60fps. Weak.
OMG!! The Cell Processor sucks so bad it’s not even funny! How can every single game look better on the Xbox? Seriously…where’s all this Cell Processor power I keep hearing about? Poor POS3 kool-aid drinkers….I pity you!
when xbox can get a game that looks as good as infamous 2, killzone 3, or uncharted 3 then talk otherwise shove your crap back where it came from.
Killzone and Uncharted
games that scarcely render areas of 10×10 mts
Alan Wake renders 2 kms xDD
Infamous 2 is open world, kz3 maps are quite large compared to many fps’s, , uc3 is fairly linear, but.in league of its own graphically. Alan wake is 540p ffs lol its a great looking game in its own way, but its no master piece, and its also linear in many ways, as only small parts of game open up to you at any one time
Errm… Killzone and Uncharted can both render very large detailed vistas. Sure you can’t explore them but the same applies for Alan Wake. Very linear.
Killzone 3 has small maps. If you want to talk about FPS games with huge maps and draw distances, Halo Reach is the best example.
Uncharted 3 is the best looking game on consoles IMO but not because of sheer horsepower or texturework. Naughty Dog did some really cool things with the art design and environments (rocking waves, moving wrinkles in Drake’s shirt, footprints in desert sand, etc).
Microsoft does not have any first party studios trying to push the capabilities of the Xbox and Epic Games is the only publisher that tries something cool with it. If Microsoft owned 4 other studios like Epic Games I’m sure you would see graphics comparable to Uncharted 3.
Lol, silly little Xbot
Are you happy now that the 360 won a head2head that doesn’t matter??
Look at the views dude, barely 1000 xD
Winning something that doesn’t matter is the same as not winning at all lol
So eager for a win after getting massacred at the BF3 analysis??
Lol, silly little Xbot
You amuse me
when the xbox won the Batman H2H, which was a game that mattered. You were crying a river. Oh Lot staff are xbox fanboys, I’m going to go to DF. BF3 wins the PS3 H2H, then you praise Lot. They got it right, great H2H. You are full of shit. Practice what you preach.
You Sir are a typical hypocrite fanboy. Same applies to you.
hmmm, the jaggy crisper version, or the blurry less jaggy version of a crap game, choices, choices.
always hated sonic, and last game did nothing to change my mind.
lmao Sega will never learn.
lol @ Synk. I’m so happy that you are celebrating a 360 win for a Sonic game. Quick question, what type of tampons do you wear?
OK, so it looks like crap on the 360, while looking like a blurry crap on PS3. Great job, Sega!!!
Blurry mess on the ps3, 360 one looks much better.
I’ll check the demo out, might be worth a go.
It won’t be. Sonic Colours was boring rubbish too. The PS3 looks like garbage here, looks like the Wii. WTF? Very strange.
Demo did little for me.. Both version were ropey! Needs to be 60-FPS, 30 is no good..This makes the backgrounds seem blury and odd when sonic is moving slow.. Both version are a tad blury, PS3 is a tad worse, not to the point of being peed off that PS3 owners are losing out..Framerate is pretty much the same, what i played on both.. SEGA have always been close with Microsoft, remember that..I wont be buying anyway..
And it is strange that SEGA are close with MS, seeing as the original XBOX nailed the dreamcast’s coffin.
How did original xbox put nail in segas coffin ?? The original xbox had pretty poor sales, the main downfall of sega was the ps2′s runaway success
Well, there has only really been enough market share out there for 3 major, main stream consoles at any one time. In the gen we speak of, it was the Dreamcast, PS2 and Gamecube consoles. Along came Xbox and squeezed the weaker of the 3, in this instance, the Dreamcast out of contention. It was already having sales issues, but xbox hammered the final nail. It’s ironic though, as the Dreamcast was incredible.
As hardware, dreamcast wasn’t that great , it was good at 2d, but 3d wasn’t it’s strength, and was even worse than ps2 to program for, but hadn’t got popularity to force devs to program for it. It was dead by time xbox launched, as sega were broke, as saturn had failed too, and ps2 was far more popular, so.people waited for it instead. Xbox didn’t kill dreamcast just shat on it’s grave lol
You’re right though, had some great games and brought consoles into online world. A true pioneer. Sad to see sega are shadow of their former selves
Wait… how exactly are they close with Microsoft if they still publish PS3 exclusive games?
I’m not saying they are close, I’m pointing out it’s strange if they are due to the dreamcasts demise……..
Shame on SEGA for just porting to the PS3. This game is a mess, and if the demo is any indication of the retail version, then this should be there last game that they make.
If you can’t even get a fucking SONIC game to work properly on both systems, then you probably shouldn’t be making games anymore. Yet another company trying to shaft the PS3 community. Que lastima
Clearly the 360 version looks better but I’m passing on this.
Sega will always gimp PS3 games… Deep down inside, the high ups in Sega hate Sony. From Saturn to the Dreamcast, Sony destroyed Sega by manipulating 3rd party developers, not by developing much better systems and especially not by developing better games.
Dreamcast had market share 2 years before Ps2, and had fantastic launch sales, especially in the U.S. Sega announced they were to discontinue production in March 2001 due to the new chair at SEGA wanting to concentrate more on software due to pending console over-population, about 5 months before the Xbox launch date. Microsoft were the one whom were manipulating 3rd party developers as the Xbox approached, and heavily influenced this decision. RIP dreamcast.
they were broke, plain and simple man lol. The saturn ruined them financially, and psx led to huge anticipation for ps2, and sales of dreamcast were poor overall (partly due to lack of advertising campaign, but that was due to no money). They had no money, no sales, and the system was a bugger to program for, thats what led to them going software only.
yeah mate, I agree with that too. More than one reason for its demise. Such an innovative console though, perhaps a litte too ahead of its time. I rememeber the first time I played Soul Caliber & Tenshu (sic?). I was completely blown way. Yeah, the problems really started back with the Sega Saturn. It too was very difficult to program for, and developers struggled to make the most of it. Sort of like the PS3 now, but lucky for sony they atarted addressing the issues about 2 years into its existence.
Well considering Microsofts Xbox came out in Nov of 2001 in the US and PS2 came out in Oct of 2000, a year before the Xbox launched. At that point the Dreamcast was already dead. So seeing that MS released Xbox a year after PS2 and 2 years after Dreamcast, how did MS manipulate anything that would negatively affect the Dreamcast?… LOL
Sony was forcing all PS1 devs to create only 3D games, and in many cases wouldnt even allow 3rd party devs to release games on PS1 if they werent exclusive to Playstation for at least a year. Thats how Sony killed the SATURN.
When MS came along with the Xbox 1, the PS2 had already killed off the DC and MS was just giving Sony a taste of its own medicine with market manipulation.
Sony started the manipulation…. Microsoft just continued it, long after DC’s demise.
This is quite funny the see how people get this comparison. You must understand that X360 does have a lot easier code to make games. It’s almost identical with normal PC coding. BUT as you can see when you watch PS3 exclusives, they know what they are doing. And most games are ported from X360 to PS3. So please allow everyone enjoy their own systems and BOTH of them are awesome systems
“Sigh-yarn”… Yet again; another piss-poor port, of a piss-poor sonic game, by piss-poor Sega… Honestly, this company has hit such rock bottom, it’s not even funny! With all the classic franchises Sega has under their belt, why in God’s-green-fuck, do they continously, rape us with these Sonic rehashes and spin-offs??? Honestly, this game isn’t even worth the “head-to-head” argument; But I guess it would be worth it to the shitbox fan-nerds to claim this head-to-head victory, seeing as how they’ve just lost two head-to-heads in a row… Anyway, good luck with this game, I’ll pass!
The PS3 version almost seems to have a lower resolution than the 360. It seems fuzzy and less clear. One upside though is that the motion blur looks slightly better on PS3, but on a whole, this is a clear win on 360.
360 version looks better.
360 looks more crisp while the PS3 has better AA.
But what I don’t get is why is this game 30fps? That’s a really stupid decision and worst of all the frame rate doesn’t seem rock solid like it should be. Good thing I got my PC version from D2D for just over £15.00 and can play it @ 60fps like it should be. It is a budget game after all.
somethings up because i just played the ps3 demo version and trust me it didnt look like this. its super sharp. this is pretty blurry and bad. check out the demo and see for yourself. game is beautiful. lens of truth never has been this off before. something is wrong.
i kinda agree , but when sonic is just standing still look at the background and you will see the blurry look , but like i said you really have to be looking hard to even tell , because of the type of game it is
It doesn’t look like this because you haven’t stopped and then looked really up close on the screen.
sorry ugly Sony fan boys. infamous2, uncharted3, killzone3 are not the best console graphic :p
they are inferior than crysis2, rage lol.
have yoy forgotten to take your medication again???? Your delusions are returning………
Pics don’t do it justice.
The PS3 version looks like no HDMI-cable is attached.
When does the Analysis video come?
Agreed. it looks like an SD Wii game.
IT looks like they used dollar store cables for the ps3 and monster cables for the 360.
ps3 looks blurry?
i take back what i said earlier about this game , although sega could have did a better job with the game’s blurry look , you really cant tell once you start playing the game unless your looking hard for the visual problem . i think because it’s a fast moving game , sega can get away with it , i enjoyed the 2d hd verison of the demo it was really fun
I agree with JKeys314. I played the demo last night (360 version) and it impressed me. Unfortunately, it’s releasing at a bad time (November).
Don’t rely on the demo, this demo is from a version that’s months old. I hope you do the h2h analysis with the retail versions.
Hate to say this, but i have both retail versions (review copies), and if you stand still, i’d say i prefer the ps3 version, on a proper 1080p screen over 32″, the sharpness of the grass and similar things on the 360 makes it look like ass.
That said, if you’re playing these games as intended, you would know that the graphics barely matter because unless you absolutely suck, they’re going to be flying by too fast to notice.
all i have to say is… sonic, youre too late!
this game shouldve been released 10 years ago THEN this would been success!
and pretty funny why ps3 version isnt exactly like xbox version? i mean cmon, how they could f*** this up?
If you guys on here would actually visit the reviews for Sonic Generations on IGN, they mention in the bullet points at the end of the PS3 review that the PS3 version is the best performing version out of the three. So go check it out. I actually bought this game and find it to be pretty awesome. Nice to see a good Sonic game(even though Sonic 4 was awesome too).
Haha, funny to see all the haters above being WRONG.
Sonic Gen sells 400k in the release date, and scored 9 from almost all reviews in graphics.
Can I say Owned?