| theRepublic said: Article said:
I call bullshit. Here is the proof: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/07/half-of-next-gen-console-owners-are-playing-on-standard-def-tvs/ Games like Assassin's Creed 2 or Modern Warfare 2 almost depend on higher-definition visuals. When you're rendering complex 3D environments like gutted war zones in Iraq or full-fledged Italian Renaissance cities and asking players to keep track of multiple objects in those environments, visual clarity--in particular, clarity at great distances--becomes advantageous, verging on paramount. Assassin's Creed 2 doesn't render complex landscapes to drain performance budgets or high-five videophiles. Half Of Next-Gen Console Owners Are Playing On Standard-Def TVs
It’s easy for those of us with HDTVs to forget that not everyone has them yet. And Epic’s Mark Rein’s stat that over half of Gears of War 2 players played it on an SDTV really brings that home. If you’re wondering why Microsoft and Sony are going to drag this current generation of consoles out for as long as possible, look no further than this: Over half the users who played Gears of War 2 so far do not have HDTVs…My point is, of the systems that are out there now, the majority of them aren’t plugged into HDTVs. So there’s no way we’re ready for the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox Whatever. |
That's a good response, but a better would would be this:
It gets hard to buy that certain games are "not possible" on the Wii when they apparently "are possible" on the PSP. Which is especially odd since the PSP's software sales are far beyond pathetic, but whatever.
