I have both a PS3 and 360. My friend just got GTA4 for 360 today. I got it for the PS3 yesterday. We plan to do a side by side comparison.

The problems have been found on BOTH PS3 and Xbox360. Rockstar needs to patch this game fast.

I really wish Sony network would have planned for this if the problem is server side (which most likely is) and if it is software side then it is a real shame. First day it worked fine and then the following morning no multiplayer but some have been able to connect. One big downfall of multiplayer is that there is not matchmaking system, to start a game is up to the host and on the first night either the host was afk or didn't know he had to start the game. The game needs a auto team balance system, first night there were people unbalancing teams on purpose then starting the game quickly. Overall multiplayer was fun for what I got to play(rockets only, deathmatch, team deathmatch).

Justin - This article didn't dicuss the issue that is present on both consoles at the moment..

I have the 80gig PS3, and my non-SE GTAIV freezes intermittently. And it sounds like 360 owners are having similar problems.

I'm hoping it's a software issue, in which case a patch can address. But man...if it's hardware...

You shouldn't run the 640p news as fact yet, Rockstar nor Sony have confirmed this except PS3 version is 720p native.
This news started from Beyond3D, where users have posted the game seems to be in 630p.

I wouldn't report this news as confirmed until Rockstar confirms this if its true.

Also, you should note the fact the PS3 online does not work is due to overwhelming number of people who purchased this game caused the servers to crash.
Much more than Sony had anticipated, I think that in itself says alot.

Mark are you still pissed that HD-DVD lost? BOTH consoles are having a problem with gta4- and I really don't care that it's multiplatform - everyone should be able to enjoy this game regardless of which camp you are in.

I can't speak to the 630p thing, but I have also heard reports that even still, the PS3 version looks better. At this point I'm waiting until I actualy see it before I spout off if it's bad though.

Why report the truth when you can report the story that will bring in the most punters for your advertisements!

Both versions are buggy as hell.

Yep the ps3 runs at a lower res, shame many people seem to think it looks better. Maybe the number of lines isn't all that counts afterall!! /sarcasm

Wow its so strange to see you report that it is on 630p on the ps3, when i was just playing GTA4 half an hour ago in 1080p on my ps3.

...You get what you pay for. Also, I wouldn't call $50/yr a "premium." What are the tards playing WoW paying a year?

Also, so much for the standard HDD being the only way to go...Running in a lower res? tsk tsk.

Who wrote this article? Must be a rookie. The PS3 version of GTA IV runs at 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. Says right on the box. The multiplayer was offline yesterday until about 11pm PST. Since then I have had no issues. As for the 360, people were also reporting problems where their consoles were freezing after exiting multiplayer. First lesson in writing an article, do your research first.

630p?

Where is this documented?

Proof?

This article is complete crap. The online issues that the PS3 are having have nothing to do with Sony and the PS3 they have everything to do with Gamespy and Rockstar. The person that wrote this article should really get their facts straight before writing something like this.

Before you go bashing TG Daily for reporting that the PS3 version runs at 640p with no proof you should do some fact checking yourself. This is being stated by many reliable news websites, not just TGD. Take-Two has also issued an apology to PS3 owners for the sub-par version released for the Sony console. What's funny is a few game review sites prematurely stated the PS3 version being a tad bit better and yet now they are quickly retracting their lies. Who really cares what resolution it runs in as long as it plays well and looks good? Just have fun if you like the game. Just because your PS3 states it is running at 1080p doesn't mean it is. I have a Samsung 32" 450 series LCD that is only 720p and yet when I run a Blu-Ray on it the set states it is running in 1080P....and yet it is only a 720p set.

unless you have a 62 inch tv and are sit on top of it you wont see the diffrence from 630p-720p much less 1080p , there sa thing called lost quality due to screen size. so unless you have a prjector that is displaying a 15 foot display quit bicker of 800,000 pixels . it the same as printing a picture 6x5 taken with a 15 megapixel carma you wont see the quality diffrence from a 2 mega pixel carma to the 15. untill you blow the image up.

Dude, you are the biggest Xbog fanboy article writer around. No facts, just dribble, no references just opinion, and pretty much all of it wrong. Do some research - you really look like a tool.

1) Live is widely considered better than PSN
2) There are crashes that are occuring on the PS3 that are not occuring on the 360. Generic 'hangs' from time to time are an issue on both systems, but 100% reproducable hangs which make the game impossible to play only occur on the PS3. There are no reports of the 360 having that specific issue.
3) The resolution for the PS3 version is lower. It's not 720p, the 360 version is.

There's no error in the report. If you wish to claim that the author didn't call out the 360's far-more-mild incodents (which *also* occur on the PS3, in ADDITION to the un-passable hangs), that's fair... but the this article is accurate.

Sigh, sad to see the author (and TGDaily) getting flamed for a supposedly 'poor' article, while the topic itself is being ignored.

Yes, ok, so the author might have a thing for the Xbox or PS3 or a simple PC, whatever.

And yes, ok, so the Xbox and the PS3 have been going at it for quite a while and the PC is dominating anyways, whatever.

The point is, there're problems with the game, whether or not its a software side or a hardware side problem, the average consumer doesn't give a shit.

My friend went ahead and got the game for his PS3. He has no idea what res its running on, and he doesn't care, because the game still looks kick ass and plays smooth. He has had a few jams here and there, but doesn't care (at the moment). When it becomes a problem, he's most likely to blame the game, and simply shift to playing something else.

Because other games work, and GTA is having problems. Even if the problems lie in the hardware, or say, the servers for multiplayer, to the average consumer, they're still problems, and they only occur with this particular game.

So, from what my friend is most likely going to say in the near future, "screw this game, it doesn't play as nice as the others."

An online service outage is an online service outage. The title is a bit sensational, don't you think? Either way, it will probably be fixed soon.

By the way, I believe Mark Raby posted the story about how the PS3 was going to beat the 360 in March. Anyway, if the game is actually only in 630P; well that is a bit lol. I don't have an HDTV either way.

People here are stating the report is right. When there is NO reference to ANYONE having said issues. What sort of sad little fan boys are you? You beleive just because 'he says so' that it must be true. Im telling you without facts to backup your BS, you are just talking junk, and that is tantamount to outright lying.

If you want to know what resolution you are playing in on PS3 LOOK AT YOUR TV!! God, how many dimwitts are there on this site? Go to the stats on your TV and it TELLS you what res you are running in. On the PS3 there are only a number of FIXED clock cycle modes that the PS3 can actually output - 650p 630p or whatever is NOT one of them. You have all been fooled.. by a 12 yr old with a big mouth. Typical internet ambush.

Btw I should point out I have been coding on the PS3 since its Jap release, and anyone who says that the PS3 is not outputing at 720p 1080i and 1080p is a complete idiot and has no idea what they are on about. I have tested it in all three modes on my HDTV no problems. And you can find numerous others on Beyond3D and other forums stating exactly the same thing - so stop the BS you little fanboys. Go play the game and STFU.

As far as I can tell all the "640p" stories have originated from the *SAME* forum poster on Beyond3D. We do not know who this guy is or how accurate he is, for all we know he works for MS! Yet everyone seems to be quoting him as an industry expert! It's "It must be true, I read it on the internet" syndrome!

He came to this conclusion from counting pixels on a PS3 screenshot posted on a gaming site. Hardly a scientific approach. Also from what I read on the forum there is no mention of him testing the 360 version, so saying that is running at 720p is just an assumption at this point. I would like to see independent confirmation - for both versions (or a Press Release from Rockstar).

At the very least show me side-by-side PS3/360 screen shots zoomed in and annotated with explanation of how the conclusion was drawn (as was provided when Halo 3 was found to be 640p).

You also make no mention of how the media in general (and Rockstar's Executive Producer) have showed a preference to the PS3's rendering style.

And as for online - PS3 online is free - this game is hugely popular - the servers got very busy with every owner trying to do the same thing at the same time. Just like when the new PSN Store launched. These things are to be expected for the first 48 hours, try playing the single player campaign while you're waiting - that's what you paid for!

I've read about/heard from Xbox users getting messages that LIVE was down at points on launch day also. And let's not forget that Halo 3 wiped out the LIVE service for most of last Christmas. And this is a PAID FOR service!!! There was no where near as much as a fuss made about that...

I'm not going to believe that the PS3 version is displaying the game in 630P until I see some real evidence. This whole thing sounds like some bullshit rumor that was started by some xBox fanboy.

P.S. Is Mark Raby one of the guys from The Inquirer? I ask because this BS story also sounds like some BS rumor that you would find on the Inquirer.

GT5 prologue is 1280x1080 for example
Halo is 640p and GTA seems to be 640p also.

This data comes from screenshots taken from the frame buffer of the console. The non-tinkered-with picture. The halo info was confirmed by Bungie. Certainly if they said it is so then it MUST be true.

This is because the consoles upscale the native resolution of a game. So do full HD TV's if they have a 720p source, they will upscale it to 1080.

It is really weird that someone with such expertise and experience would have to be though all this.
Next time do some research instead of making a fool of yourself

I have 3 friends playing perfectly fine on 360. Unfortunately for me I sold my 360 just recently so I picked up the PS3 version. I have tried over 80-100 times now to connect online and get the awesome "cannot connect" error.

I am so unimpressed with the PS3 it is beyond belief, if it wasn't a great Blu-ray player I would've sold it already. The lack of good games is enough to make it suck already, then you tack on the number of bugs and crappy online play and it is awful. I keep trying to hang in their hoping for more, but I don't feel optimistic about it.

Why the Wii was mentioned at the very end? What does the Wii have to do with any of this?

630p is not true is a lie that 360 fagboys created,i actually have both system and my ps3 looks better on HDTV,all u got to do on ps3 is some setting on display,turn on HDMI FULL ON,and WHITe ON,and it will look much better than 360"if u got HDMI cable.

this multiplayer error WILL GET FIXED SO DONT THINK SONY wont fixed it,they always fixed issues and is actually better than xbox live in the long run "FREE"

It's related to the article, are you blind? Half of the article (and the major problem with the ps3 gta4) is about online play. They compare the online play of the 360 and PS3, why not throw the Wii on?

dude first of all the article is 100% accurate, it may sound a little bias but its 100% true ... go do a little research.

And if you believe that the game is 1080p because your TV says so .. LOLOLOL ... have you ever heard of UPSCALING

Dude the only coding you have ever done was problably on your alphabet soup

Grover... you've been coding for the cell processor since its Jap (sic) release??? Please pick up a Sony application packet ASAP. Tens of thousands of Bluray player owners want to know what a cool exclusive game looks like!!!!

HURRY!

Title says it all.

Why would a cut scene be at one resolution on one platform and another resolution on another? The cost of re-rendering would be insane. You could just scale the 360 version down, but why? The PS-3 has better video output capability and more space to pack the video in.

If they were to do two versions they would do the higher rez version for the PS-3.

is this really that important to you all? its funny, he wrote his article!

The reason this game was so savagely delayed was because of the PS3! Rockstar even said it themselves:

http://digg.com/gaming_news/PlayStation_3_complications_caused_GTA_IV_delay

This resolution BS is probably one of the many issues they needed to fix for the PS3 version. Why do people act in furious shock when they know this occured? They basically rushed the PS3 version out because the 360 version was ready to go for months!

Please guys, please. Save your blind faith for Sony for another person. I for one own both consoles, and am highly disappointed with my PS3 thus far. Especially since "corporate obligation" kept ME from playing GTA 4 earlier.

As for online, LIVE is the clear winner. We pay monthly fees, therefor MS keeps the service running and running well.

Sony has no obligation to fix crap. If you were to complain, basically it's "It's free so... shut up. We'll fix it later." And you can't retort because hey, you already bought the console, no subscription to cancel. You buried yourself neck deep and have no leverage on Sony anymore.

You get what you pay for in that department. Sony is truely too freakin' slow and offer no consolation for any of their missed promises. Enjoy crap online until Sony feels like fixing it.