Next Gen Games: To HD or not to HD?

tplarkin7 - 47 days 6 hours ago

Frame rate is key and it must be smooth, but a lower res is a disappointment. Halo 3 and COD4 look great but there is some aliasing issues that would be resolved if they ran at 720p natively.

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season007 - 47 days 5 hours ago

why not to have a higher res crisper picture...i mean

do the basics then go for the advance, not the other way around

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cain141 - 47 days 8 hours ago

I sorta did, thats why I only bought my 720p TV... Helps when you wait on things a bit...

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paul_war - 47 days 8 hours ago

That's part of the problem people are having.

There was a lot of talk of 1080p gaming before this generation started & it seems some games are struggling to reach 720p.

There is no denying that some of these games look great, and of course I would sacrifice resolution for a stable frame-rate.

It's just that people's high def TV's are not being used fully, and this ‘gen’ may not be the high-def era it was touted, at least not till the end of this 'gen' or even the next.

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JOLLY1 - 47 days 8 hours ago

I play console games because they are simple and fun. You put in a disk and go. I don't have to worry about checking resolution. I don't need to turn on different color schemes. I don't need to check my white balance to see if the developer produced the game with white balancing. I don't have to install part of the game to my hard drive. I just put my game disk in and go. I love it!

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cain141 - 47 days 8 hours ago

How do people like you get in the Gamerzone? It has happened with Halo and other 360 titles as well...

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paul_war - 47 days 8 hours ago

It’s happened more recently on the PS3, that’s for sure, but remember the most famous case is till Halo 3.

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Fishy Fingers - 47 days 8 hours ago

Halo 3? COD4?

It has nothing to do with which console, it all comes down to choices made by the developers.
Actually it come more down to "gamers" being fussy enough to care about this sort of rubbish.
The fact remains you had to be TOLD about the res difference in all these games.

Dont remember anyone saying "wow, the resolution seems a little low" do you?

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ravinash - 47 days 5 hours ago

The 360 and PS3 are capable of doing 720 and 1080, although at that resolution I wouldn't expect too much to be happening on the screen at any one moment.
The problem is the companies making the games have time tables and budgets to stick to, and there is no real benefit to upgrading the resolution when it comes to sales.
Imagine buying a house and then investing massive amounts of time and money putting in gold taps and hand rails only to find it has not raised the value of the house at all.
A good game will sell. No one was expecting GTA4 to be running at the highest resolution, and yet its one of the biggest selling games ever.

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ban fans - 47 days 6 hours ago

People jump all over companies when a new technology comes out because they feel it should be used to its fullest potential right out of the gate (I blame this on the "instant gratification syndrome" everyone seems to suffer from in this day and age). Simply put, tech takes time. Anyone who thought every games on PS3 and Xbox360 would be running in full HD should have their head examined. It is not practical or even possible with most games as the space is best used to create a better experience, not just pretty backgrounds.

Another factor I think people don't take into account is that a lot of people don't own 1080p capable televisions yet. If, say, 15-20% of PS3 owners have a 1080p TV, is it really worth the effort on the part of a game developer to focus man power on creating something that only that small percentage of gamers can truly take advantage of? I think they have already answered with a big "No!".

I think you will see more high resolution games as these systems age and more people can make use of that tech, but until the install base of HDTVs becomes the standard, I wouldn't expect to see many that run at that high resolution.

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bpmurr - 47 days 7 hours ago

If you've played COD4 on a PC running at 1920x1080 native with full AF and AA it blows the doors off the 360&PS3 versions upscaled to 1080p. Just the texture detail alone makes a big difference. I will admit that COD4 and Halo wouldn't looks that much different at native 720P. However, I think they need to drop the HD crap if they can't even meet the lowest HD spec.

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