Insomniac's Brian Hastings speaks out on the PS3

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windbane said: shams said: And me. Although I could buy one now ($1500) if I wanted - its still a WASTE of money. My HDTV doesn't play PS3 well (no 1080p) - the 360 would run a lot better. I barely buy DVD's - and couldn't care less about BluRay (I care about content/price much more than quality). Why do you assume that the 360 will run better on a crappy TV? Why does anyone assume you have to have an HDTV to notice graphics are better? I have a crappy $200 Walmart-bought TV (they actually have good deals there it turns out), and I can tell that the games look better! For goodness sakes, you don't have to have HDTV to see that! Xbox games don't naturally look better on a standard TV! How would that ever make sense?

My TV does 1080i, and a bunch of modes under 720p - but not 720p (or 1080p). At least the 360 upsamples games that run in 720 (or other modes) to 1080i - but on the PS3 I get lovely 480p quality (for games that run in 720p for instance). Now that's worth spending that cash for. BTW - my DVD player plays DIVX movies off a USB drive/key, and upsamples them to 1080p (or lower). It even came with a HDMI cable. All this for $140AU. EDIT - this entire thread is trash.