Oblivion PS3 will look nicer

The PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will benefit from technical advances made since the game shipped on Xbox 360 and PC earlier this year, in addition to offering the new "Knights of the Nine" quest announced last month.

Speaking to IGN, executive producer Todd Howard said that Knights of the Nine would take between 10 and 20 hours to finish, and also revealed that Bethesda's plan for Oblivion on PS3 also includes downloadable content. It's "something we'd like to support on PS3," he says, "but right now that's really in Sony's hands".

In terms of other differences between Oblivion on 360/PC and PS3, Howard said that the things you'd most notice besides the new quest would probably be the differences in graphical shaders - although it sounds like you'd have to look closely. "The best examples are those new shaders we have for how 'near detail' and 'far detail' blend together on the landscape," he said. "You no longer have a harsh line cutting across the two levels - they blend together seamlessly and the distant detail and land looks much nicer."

[Asuka]

i read this in OPM.

[uuuunvnv2]

wouldnt you think it would with the extra dev time. same as fight night, a extra year is a long time. look at some of the games from E3 to TGS and that was a few months.

[Mikey_Gee]

I will sit my 360 next to my PS3, but I have to agree with you on this one.
Give someone a year to build a house, and give another group of folks the same amount of time PLUS another year ... I would ONLY HOPE it gets more polished and refined !!!!

That only makes scence.

Most of the build work was done, just re-working the code for the PS3 Cell.

EITHER WAY ... this game is FAN-FREAKEN-TASTIC and will enjoyed by all the way it should be ... not console exclusive. It is to nice of a game to limit it !!

[dantesparda]

All you 360 fanboys are ridiculous! all you's keep saying everytime the PS3 version is supposed to look better, is that its had an extra year to be developed on. You's are so wrong, for development on these PS3 versions started after their 360 counterparts, so therefore they have had either as much time or probably even less. But no, I know you 360 fanboys extremists wont accept that. No. you rather believe your own bullcrap. And those games (Obliv & FNR3) came out around March, which is not a year ago, but I bet that you's would argue even that. Damn! look at this crap, I have to fight against my own brethrens, because you's are so outragous.

[Scythesean]

"The distant detail and land looks much nicer."

Nice!

[uuuunvnv2]

wow, all that knowledge on makeing games but he used "much nicer" to describe the game.....

[GamerX2]

In terms of other differences between Oblivion on 360/PC and PS3, Howard said that the things you'd most notice besides the new quest would probably be the differences in graphical shaders - although it sounds like you'd have to look closely. "The best examples are those new shaders we have for how 'near detail' and 'far detail' blend together on the landscape," he said. "You no longer have a harsh line cutting across the two levels - they blend together seamlessly and the distant detail and land looks much nicer."

[Daytona]

Do ya see?

[omansteveo]

Typical KingBoy

[kingboy]

some xbox guys pissed me off this morning i had to post this to get them sh@t up..i hope this doesn`t turn into flaming.if they continue on me i`ll start posting more stuff like this,which i usually don`t

[eques judicii]

you knew this would turn into a flame war, even though it shouldn't be... the ps3 version will look better because they spent more time on it refining the shaders... this has nothing to do with the power of the ps3... put the ps3 version on a high end pc and the pc will look better than the pc version that launched almost a year ago.

[Daytona]

someone made you mad?

[dantesparda]

Dude, the 360 version cant touch the PC version, and I highly doubt that the PS3 ver will either. And the PC version has been out since the 360. So there goes your whole little more time theory.

[omansteveo]

Yeah i hope it doesnt either i hate reading comments that have no backing just, "hey my system is better than your system" ya know so lets try to keep it clean guys its our responsibility

[OutpostCommand]

Well-
This isnt the worst news post possible.

[Bebedora]

This title in it self is a flamer topic, but in a way, we here see a DIFFERENCE between the two consoles, regarding to how Betesda developers apporaches the two consoler beasts.

This time it is, as I have read it to be, the shaders in the PS3 that is used to make the depth in the distance to seamlessly appear in a proper manner.

[eques judicii]

i don't think they are referring to the ps3 shaders, but the new ones they are implementing in the engine.

[Bebedora]

Ok, I thought they were refering to the way they could implement this shader feature in the PS3 version. If it is possible to do the same in the XB360 it is bad they didnt.

[Gamer13]

see much i wouldn,t even rent the ps3 version.

IM OUT.

[zonetrooper5]

Well your getting an old game but a little bit better graphics and some more quests, have fun playstation fans. I'm playing this on my Xbox 360 and many people are playing it on the PC already.

[Bebedora]

I bet you it will be fun for anyone, but I have to angle it in a FPS way, hey it's a XBOX game, so, I feel it is very synonymous with the 'philosophy' of the Xbox. Funny.

[Arkham]

Let's try not to sound so bitter, eh?

[Eternal E 808]

i knew this from the beginning though, but i hope we can all enjoy this game