I'll play it on SDTV for a few days before my DLP gets back. It's not a big deal. If I eat $30 on the purchase to later trade it in for the PS3 version, so be it.

As I said before the xbox version looks really good. I`ve you just play GTA you notice nothing, maybe some textures on houses loads longer than everything else.

But GTA is no graphic-whore...So I don`t understand this flamebait...



Enjoy GTA and stop those ridiculous discussions!

 Most of those gifs from Gaf were posted by people that were playing GTA4 on their 360 Devkits off the HDD. I'm sure alot of the popups are fixed for the retail, so there's no need to waste 30 buck on something so minimal. Same goes for PS3 owners upset about 90 pixels, ps3 version has more PP to make up for those 90 pixels.

No its not true, the PS3 version upsacales to 1080p if you want, it says it on the back of the box.

let me just zip this up....



okay now i can stick around in this thread b/c its going to get messy

This certainly adds gas for the flame... Someone said 90 pixels above.... someone 1000... Apparently people don't understand resolution. A Pixel is a Picture Element. Resoultion is calculated just like area -- LengthxWidth or horizontal times vertical.

So, IF TRUE, the 360 version would be running 1280x720 or a total of 921,600 pixels on screen. Again, IF TRUE, and the PS3 version was at 1120x630 or 705,600 pixels. Thats roughly 25% more pixels on screen and would generally be considered a good thing.

The reality is, though, that a very high frame rate, 4X or 8X AA, and every post-processing trick known to man will more than compensate for a lower resolution and still blow away the higher resolution if it cannot pull off all the  same effects. I've seen 640x480 images that smoked 1024x768 images because of processing...

Again, IF TRUE, there is a small hint of irony here if we look at the HDDVD vs. BLU-RAY argument... 1080P was always touted as better because of the higher resolution. Now, if it goes the other way around here oh boy, the shitstorm will cometh.

Key word being "upscales". The OP is talking about native resolutions.

What I don't see is how a game so far known by their bugs (the little I've seen it looks like the phisics are far more bugged than Crackdown. And that's a lot!) can make a lot of "perfect 10's" from the media. That annoys me.

I would have thought more reviewers would have noticed this by now :P I'm don't have any facts to back this up, but I'm calling shenanigans ;)

so i guess the native resol. for the PS3 is worse? Is this rlly true?