Plus... Hadoken concept art.

In their defense, most of the great looking games of current gen are sub 720p, too.

bumping racing games to 1080 isn't that easy.In fighting games you can create scenarios just as you need them.People and objects in the backround can be removed ,the cam is almost fixed while fighting etc

In Racing games You can change the camera angle whenever you want ,the drawing distance on real tracks can cause problems as you can't replace the scene and objects to prevent frameratedops and keep the track look like in reality etc.

of course you can make all racing games run 60fps,1080 even on a ps360by using low polygon count,primitive textures and cartoon graphic(the ultimate weapon to avoid expensive graphics) but in a racing sim this is not possible.

60 or bust for me.

Yes but this is next gen! If it was coming to 360, 720p at 60fps would be doable with very minor graphical downgrades. If the studio wasn't rushed, 1080 would be a walk in the park.

So the limitations of the Xbox1 are already showing? Thats not a good sign.

It's 3D actually, but the graphics don't look very good, so I'm not sure why they couldn't get it at 1080p/60. 

Like what's stated in the op, Double Helix is a really shitty developer.  As soon as I found out they were developing the game, I've got the feeling the game will be crappy overall.  If it's good then it's their first good game.

I don't even know that we can chalk this up to time constraints. A 2D fighting game that only has two characters on-screen at one time is running at 720p in order to maintain 60fps on hardware that shouldn't be having that kind of problem? The character models are not even that great looking when you take a good look at them. What's more, the game is launching with only 6 characters and virtually no other modes besides online matches and practice modes. When in the hell did Double Helix start working on this game? 6 months ago? I'm glad to see they're sticking to 60fps for a fighting game that is supposed to be fast-paced but why in the world are they having to make sacrifices in order to make an initially barebones 2D fighting game move at that rate?

             The best part is that DigitalFloundry said some months ago that KI for the Xbox One will be 1080p. They got exposed.  At least they admitted  that Wii U has the defenitive version of Rayman Legends.

XBone can't run a fighter game at 60 FPS in 1080p?