Perhaps I should have read the f**cking article. But all these " its only 720p the consoles are not powerful enough for 1080p" dimwits get on my nerves.

It sounds like they have discovered another reason why they will never reach fully realistic graphics anytime soon. By the time they get enough detail for the 600p range, they up the resolution and have to put even more detail in, then even more for higher resolutions. I wouldn't expect full 1080p experiences until the generation after the next.

I think you underestimate Moore's law. 1080p has roughly twice the amount of pixels than 720p (which is the resolution of most games this gen), And PS3 and 360 are roughly 10 times as powerful as the PS2/Xbox.

So rendering twice the pixels shouldn't be that hard with the PS4 or Xbox720. Besides by next gen most TVs will be 1080p. I am pretty sure that we will see quite a few 1080p games by the end of THIS gen. I mean GT-Prologue is already 1280*1080 and its one of the best looking games around.

i recently bought a samsung HD 40'

and its really make difference.

the thing is the HD is due LCD tv not pc LCDs.

and thinks like playing my ps2/wii on the new tv is eye hurting.

@Kyros: Actually he saw it as a good thing that developers don't force the games for the higher resolutions, since it looks better when you don't try to max out the resolution. And one of his major complaints was, that you're not able to get the native resolution out of the system (if the game runs in 600p for example), they always upscale it to atleast 720p. And of course the "promised" full HD, which isn't the games native resolution, but only upscaled image in most games.

But, i see the guy haven't been really looking what happens in console front, since he mentioned that things like AA and bumb mapping have been in PC:s for a decade, and he apparently was implying that this is something new to consoles, when the consoles have had the same HW features for just as long.

Using the term fake is a bit excessive, is it not? What is my HD ideology? That don't make no damn sense at-tall. Regardless, the games for those HD consoles are indeed being rendered at resolutions higher than 480p. So it's not like you could enjoy the graphics to their full potential on a standard definition television. While reading the article all I could here is Donnie saying, "I am the walrus". In marketing there are much bigger "untruths" than what the HD consoles promise.

Soriku said: Hmm...I think it's just because devs aren't entirely used to the PS3/360 architecture. We should see more 1080p games as time passes...but that depends on if devs know how to work around the PS3 and 360. Next gen all games should be 1080p (MAYBE a higher resolution). Though I'd expect a lot of PS4/Xbox 720/Wii 2 games to be 1080p. @Jo21 I heard component cables for the Wii makes Wii games look a lot better on HDTVs.

 

Going from 480p @30fps to 1080p @60fps while maintaining the same per-pixel performance requires an increase in processing power that is (roughly) equal to the jump from the PS2 to the PS3 ... To put in another way, the PS3 could probably handle games at 1080p @60fps but they are not going to have lighting or texture effects which are much better than the PS2 produced.

The reason most games are being output at (or below) 720p and at (or below) 30fps is because the systems are not even close to powerful enough to support the advanced shader effects they're producing at a higher resolution or framerate. The best that you can (realistically) hope for is for developers to get enough additional performance to lock the framerate a 30fps at 720p.

HD is completely unnecessary. Still, true HD is only a matter of time. PS4/720 will probaly be capable of some stupidly high resolution like 2160p.

^^^ what do you mean HD is completely unnecessary? I guess 8 colors was completely unnecessary when we still had green and black, what the hell were they thinking, putting out all those trivial colors just to trick us, bastards!

Soriku said: NintendoMan said: HD is completely unnecessary. Still, true HD is only a matter of time. PS4/720 will probaly be capable of some stupidly high resolution like 2160p.   lol. I highly doubt that ;P I still believe HDTVs will still be locked at 1080p max. That's all they really need to do. How how do you want resolution to go? -_- @Happy Oh. That seems like...a problem kinda for all those people who want 1080p. But next gen I don't think we'll have this problem.

 

 Actually it can go as high as 4320p within the next decade or so.

 Quad Full High Defination 2160P or Ultra High Definition Video 4320p.