EA says 360 and PS3 Tiger Woods 09 graphics identical

Took 'great pains' to work on PS3 and with Sony.

There will be no graphical difference between the 360 and PS3 versions of upcoming EA sports game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, EA has confirmed.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com in an interview published here, EA Tiburon associate producer Greg Rinaldi said that the development team took "great pains" to work on the PS3 version and with Sony this year and that he can't personally tell the difference between the two.

Some PS3 versions of multiplatform EA Sports titles have in the past angered gamers because of frame rate and graphical issues. The PS3 version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, however, did not suffer from similar problems, and EA looks set to achieve parity once again this year.

Rinaldi told VideoGamer.com: "There's no difference this year. We took great pains to really work on PS3 and work with Sony. Visually, I've seen the two side by side and I couldn't tell the difference. I know there were some issues last year on some of the titles, frame rates being different, but that's not the case with Tiger Woods. Tiger has always been consistent on both platforms.

"It's especially important with stuff like GamerNet, you know where we're exploiting the power of the PlayStation Network, allowing users to be constantly online, constantly able to connect to GamerNet and their friends. I think, European gamers especially, will appreciate that."

Rinaldi agreed with comments made to VideoGamer.com recently by David Rutter, the producer of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of FIFA 09, that PS3 development had now "caught up" with 360 development following Microsoft's console's head start.

"I know at Tiburon we developed Madden 06 on 360 and it gave us a lot," said Rinaldi. "The fact that Microsoft was first gave us a lot of insight into the hardware. We kind of hit the ground running on that. When the PS3 came out, for the first iteration of the titles that we were doing on PS3, I think we had a lot going on at the time. We still had to ship a 360 title and we had to get up to speed on the hardware for PS3. I think it's taken us a cycle or two, but at this point we're really at the same level on both and that's what people need to see."

For the rest of our interview with Greg Rinaldi click here. For our hands-on preview of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 click here.