Destiny cross generation images show which version looks best

A series of high resolution images showing off Xbox 360 vs PS3, and then comparing them to their next gen counterparts.

[SteamPowered]

Better take down the picture of the Death Star on a Destiny article before the internet explodes...

[HammadTheBeast]

Just noticed that lol

[Nineball2112]

I switched the image out. Good catch.

[FanboyKilla]

Lol cmon on guys you are better than this. They could be focused on getting us more info about the game, but here you are making it easy for them. Lmfao all these sites have to do is wake up post pics and sit and watch the clicks. $CHING$CHING$ I mean there are more pics than words now. Yes, i know the pic is the topic of this article, but im speaking in general.

Now, to the images and game itself. I stand by my original statement that the game is not impressive in the graphics department. So i can care less which pics are posted on either console ps4 or xone. Oh, you see it looks better on ps4? I still see unimpressive. Oh yeah xone looks better there? Ha, unimpressive. Now im not saying its ugly by far, i think it looks really good, but it doesnt impress.

Real talk give me the pics no labels i couldnt be 100% sure i could pick what console it was from. Kudos to bungie 360 and ps3 are the versions that look amazing, if any.

Now ive graced across ps4 and xone destiny beta. And this is my opinion and comparison. There is a massive change in the gameplay. What i mean by this is, the way it feels when you play. You guys arent going to like this, but its my god honest truth. I never felt comfortable with the dualshock, i kept trying to adjust my sensitivty and controller settings. Never got it to feel good. Campaign, strike missions ect. I could bare it. I didnt like it at all mind you. Then advanced to multiplayer and after a couple of matches i had pretty much decided that i didnt enjoy the feel of the game, and i was out.

In the back of my mind im saying its the contoller, in the front im saying yeah f n right, a controller isnt going to make this better. Thank goodness i was wrong, for once jj. This is a lil long so ill make this short. Destiny feels like it was made for xone, because xone was designed for destiny. Ill never play a non sony exclusive shooter on ps4. When i was trying to adjust my contoller, i was trying to get it to play like xone it cant.

Go on and hate. But for those who care and have the luxary to choose, i recomend you play both. Its my opinion, you might feel some type a way.

Tanks and welcome home Bungie.

[ShaqSoda]

The ps4 and x1 almost like identical. The ps4 has better textures especially from a farther distance.

[ShinMaster]

Yup and the Xbox version is darker as usual.
But other than that, they're pretty similar with no significant differences.

[AndrewLB]

Take a look at that comparison again. The texture quality at varying distances are almost identical between the Xbone and PS4. In all honesty, in that comparison they both look equally poor.

[skydragoonity]

The ps4 version looks best. Can we move along now

[Hanuman]

I agree with PS4 looking better. The difference between PS3 and 360 is more noticable, in wich I favor the 360 version. I'm sure "the internet" isn't finished with these juicy articles because it makes people click and clicking means money in the pocket.

[Bonkerz]

Just saying you guys do realize the X1 version is running on old software right? Which is why the beta is not 1080P while the game is. Also though from playing the beta on X1 i honestly couldnt care if the game stays at what it is on the beta it looks damn good. If anything you cant even tell its not 1080P. Absolutely no FPS drops, and everything looks great.

[Death]

The game is still output at 1080p on the Xbox One. The differance is native resolution. The PS4 outputs 1080p while the Xbox One version is 900p upscaled to 1080p. When the game ships at 1080p natively, the differance will be minimal at best.

[DevilishSix]

Resolution has nothing to do with better texture filtering, better color, better draw distance that PS4 clearly has. That is a GPU issue and PS4 has a much better GPU. You can release all the sdk's you want, but it will never make up the difference in performance unless MS gets developers to gimp PS4 versions. This is a dead issue, there are benchmarks floating around to prove it, time to move on.

[Death]

I agree that it's time to move on. The problem is there are still people that think there is this huge differance that is non existant. The Destiny comparisons are native 900p vs 1080p and people are struggling to see the differance.

The benchmarks you are referring to are stand alone GPU theoretical comparisons not taking into account the CPU side of the APU or the way RAM is accessed. On paper the PS4 GPU sounds awesome, but so did Cell. All the benchmarks in the world mean very little if the end user can't tell.

Can we move on now?

[user5669510]

im not seeing whats so impressive about this game to keep having comparison articles. its not even a big leap compared to the ps3 vs next gen version. but its bungie dont expect a graphical game when it comes to them.

[microgenius]

@Death
CELL was suppose to help PS3 producing better graphics than 360 and guess what
360 could just dream of the last of us or uncharted or god of war or killzone or... level of graphics
you can now move on

[pingthing]

Are you blind? Xbox one version is far superior. Imagine how much better it will be when they bump it to 1080p for release. Yay team green.

[afterMoth]

And the power of the cloud!!!!!! Just look what the cloud has done for COD and BF4, they look so much better than the PS4 versions.

[Death]

Cloud compute is in it's infancy, but that doesn't mean it isn't very real. PSNow is 100% done in the cloud. What Microsoft is doing with cloud compute will be different though. They are looking to supplement the consoles instead of moving everything to a remote server like Sony.

[MegaRay]

WiiU version is teh best

[RiPPn]

All versions look great, should be fun no matter your console of choice.

[Mr_Danski]

Well personally the best platform to me is ps4.i just got emailed two extra codes for ps4 so if anyone would like them please message me. (first two people who ask nicely shall receive)

[HappyWithOneBubble]

Looks beast on PS4 of course but looks good on the other consoles too.

[PingasoFromHell]

PS4 XBox One looks the same...no reason to buy one version over the other...oh wait Xbox has better online servers ....well there you go

[hairy]

bleh, I am glad that it looks about equal on both, but i can't help but think xbone is holding it back from being 60fps :(

[marcofdeath]

and how meany 1080p 60FPS games are on PS4? Not one 1st party game!

[GW212]

All cross platform games look better and perform better on PS4 so far. This game will probably be the same. That said, the differences won't be crazy and I'm sure you'll still enjoy it. Let's try to grow up a little. Thanks.

[Gunstar75]

Yawn.

Bungle made the best game they could.

MS engineers made the xb1 version better.

no gimping here

[ShowGun901]

lets look at some graphically demanding games, not destiny... betas awesome, got it paid for already, love it so far, but its not a graphical powerhouse... lets compare something really demanding!!!

[marcofdeath]

The XB1 looks better at 900p and with better colors and lighting.

http://i1159.photobucket.co...

[GW212]

Cute.

[BattleTorn]

That gif would stand to prove the opposite of what your suggesting.

While the red draped cloth may look more "vibrant" it is clearly over saturated, with high contrast, and has lost texture detail.

[Alsybub]

That's not a good comparison. The XB1 image is over saturated and the contrast is way too high. It's either down to the video settings of the Xbox it was taken from or the capture device. In fact it means that the XB1 image you have there looks worse than the PS4. Look at the huge loss of detail on the foreground object, it's so bright that it becomes white and loses the subtle graduation from dark to light, this is due to the contrast being set too high.

Unfortunately we've been conditioned to think that high contrast, brightness, colour and sharpness = good, by manufacturers. The default settings on a screen are there to make a screen stand out from the crowd in a store but they simply aren't correct. If a screen is properly calibrated it seems muted in comparison but there is far less image degradation.

If the output/capture were calibrated correctly and to match the PS4 they'd look the same.

[purp13m0nk3y]

Totally agree. And excellent explanation. If only there was more common sense thinking like this on N4G.

The exact same thing happened with the early BF4 footage last year. All the Xbots were saying the same thing. Sharper image, better colours ect. And look how that turned out. PS4 version offered noticeably better IQ.

If you see both versions of the beta side by side (in person, not some shite compressed video/pics) you can see the PS4 version has noticeably better IQ.

The final release in 1080p will be an interesting comparison. I hope Digital Foundry do an in depth analysis to silence all the bias fanboys.

[mixolydian_id]

I could swear I've seen that "PS forum shill" example over on the MisterX blog?

It's funny really.

@Battletorn - One mans over saturated... is another mans undersaturated.
My TV has a remote and I control it as I wish. I like the visualise popping out like that. Neither console achieves photorealism.

Contrast too high? Tried altering the setting on your tv?

It could be that the PS4 has 64bit colour... the XB1 32bit?

Unrelated comment - Isnt the PS4 supposed to be 50% better in specs? Looks more like 5% to me?!

Another unrelated comparison - Beats audio head phones (170$) vs Sennheiser HD419 (50$) Sennheiser eats them alive.

[ziggurcat]

"The XB1 looks better at 900p and with better colors and lighting."

uh... no. you need to learn more about colour correction. the xbone colours are oversaturated due to the contrast being too high/brightness being too low.

the colour/lighting in the PS4 version looks more natural.

valiant effort, though.

[mysteryraz11]

its slightly better looking

[MultiConsoleGamer]

The Xbox One version looks better in person and it's running at a lower resolution. Crazy.

[XStation]

Where's the PC version?

[hello12]

Just played Destiny i have to say Bungie did a great job with the x box 1 version.

Experienced no frame rate drops, no screen tearing, no dark areas. Plays very good on my TV

Had lot of fun playing it. I'll be buying it.

[Alsybub]

By the disagree you got I'm assuming someone was standing behind you while you were playing and had a mind probe to see what you really thought. Either that or they're pathetic.

[XStation]

Anyone have an extra Xbox 360 code? If so pm me.I wanna help me friend out.

[Tedakin]

I love the Xbone and I gotta admit... I'm stunned by this game runs. I know the XBone has its problems with resolutions, framerates, all that jazz. This game is STUNNING and massive. The lighting is incredible and I just run around kinda boggled it's so smooth and there's no screen tearing to be seen, no framedrops, nothing on the Xbone. Bungie figured it out. I hope other devs can follow suit.

[Shakengandulf]

90% sure the last comparison between ps4 and xbox one are the wrong way around.