The car Anti Aliasing is so much better on PC, I could go down all these pics and distinguish which was on which machine.
GT5 did it great on PS3, don't get it.
They had five years to perfect their graphics engine, a huge budget and only one platform to optimize their game along with (probably) much better communication with PS3 hardware and library engineers. And, dare I say so, they may even had involvement in the initial PS3 design phase. After all, they are one of Sony's most lucrative studios.
GT5 was bound to be better than Shift 2 in something! And the (almost) 1080p, clean and crisp graphics of GT5 along with the advanced (and complicated) photo-mode are some of the strong points of GT5! Not surpassing, since PD are a graphic-focused studio.
But, in my opinion, all this GT5 graphic-tech is going to waste once you see the lifeless, badly modeled tracks (Nordschleife excluded), bad textures, horrible shadows and smoke effects, bad visual-damage, standard cars, etc which I think really break the immersion. On the contrary the lower resolution and worse anti-aliasing (also due to deferred rendering) of Shift 2 on PS3, doesn't break the immersion since you don't even notice it once you get in the racing action!
I admit it would be nice if Shift 2 fired a separate rendering thread (similar to GT5 and Forza 3) once you took a photo to generate High-Performance-PC-quality photos on PS3. But I can't even begin to imagine how difficult that would be to implement!
Also I think every minute (or unit of money) SMS would spent on better photo-mode would be a minute less spent on nailing the physics and the racing environment. They would risk of "biting more than they could chew" and losing focus from their goal of developing a realistic and fun racing-game-sim! Hey, that's maybe what happened to GT5 after all!
Also, for me at least, every minute spent on taking photos in Shift 2 is one minute less spent on racing. When I have more time I may try to take some nice photos of Shift 2, though I really take awful photos!
By the way, some really excellent photos in this thread! 👍
The Porsche rules
