Untamoi said:
HappySqurriel said:
Darc Requiem said:
HappySqurriel said:
glimmer_of_hope said:
HappySqurriel said:
I think that Nintendo will certainly support 720p (or higher) in the next generation, and there is a moderate chance that they will support 1080p and a slim chance that they will support 3D. I don't think Nintendo would support anything beyond that, because it would be a feature that would be used by (pretty much) no one in the life of the hardware.
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Cafe will support 1080p and Sterscopic 3D
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I'm glad you have faith, but it isn't really Nintendo's style and it doesn't make sense to support those things at this point in time; especially if the rumours about the hardware are (somewhat) true.
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I actually agree with Glimmer of Hope on this. The 360 and PS3 are 3D capable and support 1080p. 3D support would be software and Cafe's hardware, based on what we know, should easily handle 1080p.
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I don't think there is a problem with the hardware that would prevent supporting these, but I don't think Nintendo would see value in the trade-offs that would need to happen to really support 1080p or 3D; and I highly doubt that the best image quality would come from increasing the resolution.
If the rumours are true then it is not unrealistic to expect the next Nintendo system to have a GPU that is in a similar range to the Radeon HD 4870; it could be more or less powerful but that isn't really the point. In this range it is likely that you could play Crysis 2 in very high detail and maintain a steady framerate (probably 60fps) at 720p, and to have a similarly steady framerate at 1080p you would have to degrade the detail of the game at 1080p; and it would require a further degrade in detail to be rendered in 3D.
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If PS3 can do 720p with 3D, Cafe with known specifications should be able to do 1080p with 3D with higher details than PS3. HD 4870 is still a lot faster than PS3 or 360 GPU (about 5-10 times faster). If HD 4870 can do 1080p with high details on most games on PC with inefficient OS it shouldn't be even difficult to do 1080p with 3D on a console.
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The question isn't whether the hardware can support the resolution, it is whether the hardware can support the resolution and still support cross platform development between Sony and Microsoft's next generation platforms.
In my opinion, one of the primary reasons for Nintendo to produce hardware that is significantly more powerful than the PS3 and XBox 360 is to make the system much more viable for third party publishers to port games to than the Wii was. If Sony and Microsoft focus on 1080p and Nintendo focuses on 720p it is unlikely that either Sony or Microsoft will be able to produce a system that is powerful enough to make Nintendo's system not viable for cross-platform development while still making Sony or Microsoft's consoles cost effective for consumers.
