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It's good news to Xbox 360 owners (except for the X360 Core owners).  First, MS needs to cut the prices on the 20GB HDD before even thinking about the 120GB HDD.  $100 for 20GB is insane.

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Quoting Ascended_Saiyan:

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Bioshock seems to be excellent.  I think I will get it on PC.  It's the best version I hear.

The 360 version runs alot better, even with considerably better hardware in a pc. This game was a 360 lead game even though the devs state the two versions are equal. Go with PC solely if you have a PC considerably above those recommended specs (if you make min specs forget about), or if you can only play shooters with mouse and keyboard.

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EDIT:  Just found out Bioshock has a widescreen issue on PC and Xbox 360.  I found it on the 2K forum.  I might pick this up if they fix this.

This is not an issue, its by design, the game was designed at a 70 FOV in 16:9, and when it came to the 4:3 resolutions on PC, instead of taking a 4:3 cutout of the centre of the 16:9 screen, 2K chose to  extend vertically (bit like open matte film). Playing it on the 360 or the pc in 16:9 is in fact the correct field of view, and 4:3 on a pc isn't.

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I got my info from running the demo on the 360 and on PCs. The game was developed by Irrational (now called 2K Boston) which are the primary development house while 2K Australia, a smaller satellite team handled the PC version.

The FOV they chose within a 16:9 ratio was the design, and a very carefully selected one. Levine and the team say so numerous times in the forums, but pc owners have kicked up an uninformed stink so they are looking at adding adjustable FOV to the PC version, to reduce the amount of whining children clogging up their forums.

P.S. You have stated many times you have sold your 360 because its such a poor console and the PS3 is so much better, so why make the statement

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Bioshock seems to be excellent.  I think I will get it on PC.  It's the best version I hear.

When you have no choice in which platform to buy it on, as you only have one of the platforms its on? Could it possibly be because you have no idea what platform it performs better on you just like smearing your fanboy drivel everywhere? I bet you haven't even played the PC demo have you?

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1. In this nauseating thread you dribble on at length with phrases such as

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I will enjoy my PS1, PS2, and PS3 (especially the advanced 1080p and lossless sound...not upscaled to 1080p)

and claim that Gears of War is only 3 hours long because Epic were restricted to a DVD9 and that resistance fall of man takes 16 hours to play and had larger multiplayer maps because of the blu ray storage medium!! You explain how you own 18 PS3 games and you say "You enjoy that Xbox 360!  I traded mine and the games in for PS3 game reserves."

So you yourself said you sold your 360 to buy terrible PS3 games.

So again I've just proved that your previous statement of hearing the PC version of Bioshock is the better version is more of your fanboy drivel, because you neither own a 360, nor have played the demo or game on PC, nor have posted a source for your claim (something you love to do and berate anyone who doesn't) nor do you have any form of consumer taste in gaming (or movies for that matter) as buying almost all of Sony's PS3 game and BD output is a definite indicator of you either working for Sony or being completely insane. I would guess both.

What does that have to do with you claiming I said, "you have sold your 360 because its such a poor console" and being TOTALLY WRONG?!  Why would YOU continue to embarrass yourself by back-pedaling?  And, I own 15 PS3 Blu-ray games and 4 downloadable PSN games.  You may say the games are terrible (probably without playing them...which is not that wise), but I and my friends enjoy them. 

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THE TRUTH ABOUT WIDESCREEN
August 22, 2007

We understand there has been some concern about the implementation of widescreen mode in BioShock. Hopefully, we can clarify how we’ve chosen to do this.

The first thing we want to make clear is the mode we developed the game on and the optimal mode for playing the game is the widescreen mode. 90% of our development stations were widescreen displays: artists, programmers and designers.

- BioShock was primarily developed and tuned for widescreen mode. Artists and designers worked with widescreen displays and chose a field of view (FOV) that best reflected their intentions with respect to the way the world is perceived, the perceived speed of movement of the player relative to the world and the amount of the world they wanted to be viewed for the best game-play experience. We went through dozens of iterations and finally settled upon a widescreen aspect ratio that best suited the gameplay experience.

- When playing in widescreen modes the game makes use of the full screen resolution, and does not crop or stretch a lower resolution image into a wide screen one. For example, at 720p the game renders natively to the full 1280x720 resolution.

- Once this FOV was established, we chose to keep exactly the same horizontal FOV for standard def displays, so as not to in any way alter the gameplay experience.

- Instead of cropping the FOV for 4:3 displays and making all 4:3 owners mad in doing so, we slightly extended the vertical FOV for standard def mode: we never wanted to have black bars on people’s displays. (This way, everybody is happy…) This does mean that people playing on a standard def display see slightly more vertical space, but, this does not significantly affect the game-play experience and, we felt that it best served our goal of keeping the game experience as close as possible to the original design and art vision on both types of displays. Reports of the widescreen FOV being a crop of the 4:3 FOV are completely false.

One thing we can assure you that all these decisions were made with the best interests of the game in mind. We didn’t save any money or development time by choosing this set of parameters. We did what we thought was the best thing for the game: developing and optimizing it for widescreen displays, and making the decision not to do the usual crop for 4:3 displays. As a consumer, you certainly have the right to disagree.

We understand that not all users might not be happy with these choices and we will be looking into options for allowing users to adjust FOV settings manually. But as we mentioned earlier, changes to video game code do not happen in minutes or hours. We appreciate your understanding.

from the Cult of Rapture site.

Happy now, or would you like me to embarrass you some more?