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curl-6 on 13 February 2017
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Pemalite said:
invetedlotus123 said:

Actually, PS2 did have HD games. GT 4 could be played at 1080i and Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria also could. 

It wasn't rendering the game at 1080i. The Playstation 2 simply did not have the hardware to do so with acceptable image quality and framerate.
It was using a few tricks to "upscale" the game to 1080i.

1080i is field rendered, it takes 540P and builds it into a 1080i signal.

Now the original Xbox was able to pull off a few games at 720P and 1080i natively.

Yeah, I was wondering what the go was there. With so many PS2 games (including GT4 itself) failing to hit even true 480p, 1080i seemed a bridge too far.

For years people keep bringing up GT4's supposed 1080i resolution to try to make PS2 look better compared to Gamecube and Wii, but it always felt fishy.