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Bioshock PS3 Demo Coming October 2nd

Posted by Soulskill on from the early-look dept.

Kotaku reports that a demo for the much-awaited PS3 port of Bioshock will be available on October 2nd. 2K Games launched a new interactive website to promote the game, which comes out on October 21st in the US. GiantBomb took a brief look at the PS3 version, saying, "... quality seems perfectly intact. The PS3 seems to be perfectly capable of rendering Rapture just as it appeared in 2007. The main changes you'll see with this version include things like Survivor mode, which is a new, harder difficulty setting. ... the game also has all of the downloadable updates that rolled out to 360 owners." 1Up notes that the full version will require a 5GB install, and they made a comparison video.

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  1. Oh come on... by dunezone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To think a game developer will not port their title over to another console is crazy. With increasing price of developing a game it would be crazy to keep your title on one console unless the big guy pays you to (Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony).

    The only bad part about this though is that as a gamer you might have to wait an extra year to have the game finally released on your console.

    1. Re:Oh come on... by H0p313ss · · Score: 1

      To think a game developer will not port their title over to another console is crazy.

      Agreed... but apparently porting TO the PS3 does require some very specific knowledge and talent because of the odd processor architecture and the custom shaders, so it does require deep pockets to start up a PS3 shop. It's probably worthwhile it to outsource the port to a shop that's already set up for PS3 dev.

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  2. Is that even in HD? by Molochi · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's a linked video showing the xbox360 and the ps3 version side by side. Both of those videos have chunky aliasing like they plugged each box into a DVR and recorded at 800x600 or something... Maybe 720P, looks that bad.

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    1. Re:Is that even in HD? by sleeponthemic · · Score: 1

      There's a linked video showing the xbox360 and the ps3 version side by side. Both of those videos have chunky aliasing like they plugged each box into a DVR and recorded at 800x600 or something... Maybe 720P, looks that bad.

      The whole video is pixelated, including the logo that it starts with. So safe to assume that it is the encoding.

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    2. Re:Is that even in HD? by Cycon · · Score: 1

      There's a linked video showing the xbox360 and the ps3 version side by side. Both of those videos have chunky aliasing like they plugged each box into a DVR and recorded at 800x600 or something...

      That's an interesting comment.

      Do you have any ideas how else they could produce such a recording, or can you recommend any hardware/software/combo which would produce a higher quality capture?

      Bonus points if it runs under Linux.

      Thanks

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    3. Re:Is that even in HD? by djikster · · Score: 1

      Any HDTV tuner card that allows component-input will allow you to record content from the Xbox or PS3. I am sure that if you try to record a Blu-Ray you will not be able to do it this route, though, since the PS3 will probably downsample the content to SD quality through component when playing movies.

    4. Re:Is that even in HD? by Molochi · · Score: 2, Informative

      I think the other guy was right. I think it was blockiness from over processed video. I wasn't really thinking about the low quality of web video. I was thinking that the consoles might be treating an SD-DVR or SD Capture Card the way a computer would, which is to drop the resolution and make the game look like crap. Might be both though.

      If it was a windows game, you'd just capture in fraps. Off a console something like gefen's hd-pvr would work, it costs a grand or so, but you can save video to a flash card then edit it on a pc. Capturing straight to the pc would be cheaper; those cards are around $300, not sure about linux support tho'...'

      If you can get the video to a linux box I'd try cinelerra. I've barely played with it but it looks like it can do it all. I've used virtuadubmod for years but I think that's windows only and

      Of course the main problem is paying for the bandwidth, which is the real reason the video is crappy. Still, I've seen plenty of videos of computer games that when resampled to 1/4 resolution look very nice playing in a window. Also, there's nothing keeping them (once the HD capture is made) from showing an unresized 640x360 portion of the screen in the video for detail comparisons.

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    5. Re:Is that even in HD? by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      Or they could just run the game at Sd resolutions and see how it holds up then, most TVs would display it like that anyway. Allows more bitrate per pixel to get a better image reproduction

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  3. Re:Wow, the ps3 sure is doing well. by dizzydogg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    According to wikipedia, the PS3 has 100 exclusives currently announced and/or out, while the Xbox 360 has 132, which isn't that big of a lead considering the 360 was out for a year ahead of the PS3.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_3-only_games
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox_360-only_games

    These days saying that the PS3 has no exclusives is about as accurate as saying the Xbox only has FPS games.

    All in all though this generation of consoles will have very few true exclusives on either system, so it boils down to whether you want the cheaper Xbox and to pay for the more consistent Internet gaming service, or pay extra for the PS3 to get a blueray player, wireless Internet, Bluetooth headset/keyboard/mouse support, faster load times, but with Internet gaming depending on the developer's implementation.

  4. Few exclusives this gen? I disagrii by tepples · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to wikipedia, the PS3 has 100 exclusives currently announced and/or out, while the Xbox 360 has 132 [...] All in all though this generation of consoles will have very few true exclusives on either system

    Wii has 179 exclusives.

    1. Re:Few exclusives this gen? I disagrii by dizzydogg · · Score: 5, Informative

      True, but that's also due to the fact that it uses a completely different control system and lower hardware performance (Since it's basically an overclocked last-gen system).
            Many games are being written for the Wii only specifically because of the wiimote. The hardware performance is lower than the 360/PS3 in all areas, thus requiring PS3/360 games to be completely rewritten for that console, making it just as easy to write a new game specifically for the Wii as it is having to redo the entire engine, graphics, models, controls etc... of a game written for the more powerful systems, only to wind up with a crippled version of the game with motion sensor controls tacked on. While it doesn't make it impossible to have a great port of a game designed for the larger systems, you will still see many games released for PS3, 360 & PC (even though people have said PCs are dying as a gaming system every console launch since the original NES came out) that won't be making an appearance on the Wii for that very reason, so it may have many exclusives but it will also be exclusively excluded from some next gen game releases.

    2. Re:Few exclusives this gen? I disagrii by rjhubs · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      That is because no one in their right minds would spend the time to port a lot of that crap to another system. Dewy's Adventure? Cooking Mom, Cook Off? Escape from Bug Island?

      I could go on and on

    3. Re:Few exclusives this gen? I disagrii by tepples · · Score: 1

      Are you just hurt that the Wii has shitty hardware and couldn't even come close to running Bioshock even if they wanted to port it?

      If they can port games to Windows and PSP, they can port games to Wii. I'm not butthurt at all about Bioshock. Katamari, on the other hand...

    4. Re:Few exclusives this gen? I disagrii by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      People have ported worse things than that. Way worse.

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  5. Lockout chips and patented controllers by tepples · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To think a game developer will not port their title over to another console is crazy.

    Unless a developer is small enough that only one console maker will give the developer a license. Microsoft, with its XNA Creators Club and Xbox Live Community Games store, has shown that it wants to be that console maker.

    Or unless a game depends on a patented input device made by one console maker. Nintendo, with its Wii Remote, has shown that it wants to be that console maker.

  6. About time! by 4D6963 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In other news, the PS3 is the new Mac, getting game ports months/years after other platforms.

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  7. But does it... by evilsofa · · Score: 1

    But does it install Securom?

    1. Re:But does it... by johannesg · · Score: 1

      No, but there might be a rootkit from Sony in the system.

  8. Wrong, PS3 supports 1080i component. by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

    I watch 1080i output over component cables from my PS3 - including Blu-Ray.

    You are talking about the DCT token which has not been enabled in any movies I know of - because there are too many people around with component HD sets that would be cut off.

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  9. Re:Wow, the ps3 sure is doing well. by IrquiM · · Score: 1

    That comment was redundant i 2007, imagine what it is now!

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  10. Re:I'll get it by rarel · · Score: 1

    You said you have no problem with DRM on consoles but you don't like it on PC. Even though I completely fail to understand why, most people are like you and that's why it was a fiasco.

    Well, I'm not exactly thrilled by the idea of DRM in general, however what I meant is that I build my PC to specs I decide, install what I want on it, and I don't want some corp to tell me what I can or cannot do with it.

    However with a console the approach is different, it's a machine built specifically for one purpose (I'm simplifying here) and I understand from day one that only specific software will run on it. It's different in that it's understandable that they lock it to that purpose.

    I don't know, it's a different sort of machine. I can (and do) use my PC for gaming, but it's a much more open platform. So the approach is different. Does that make sense?

    One last thing, if you fear about the game being too easy, I can assure you it's not. If you disable Vita-Chambers and don't save every 2 minutes (I never saved except when changing levels), then the game on Hard is about the same difficulty as System Shock 2 on Hard. It is certainly very stressful.

    Good to know :)

  11. Re:Wow, the ps3 sure is doing well. by anomaly256 · · Score: 1

    Hehe I'm sorry the mods feel it's a troll. In fact, it's an opinion. And it's one shared by a large majority of people. I actually own a ps3 and every single week I go looking for titles worth buying. And every week I'm disappointed....