well if I don't blame sony for not cutting the price because they simply can't then I don't blame them for not fixing the issue because they simply can't

It's surprising that this still happens considering this issue with at least one or two high profile games in the past. It's especially surprising when you consider that one of the requirements of XBLA games (being readable on relatively small tv screens).

When it happened with Dead Rising (the first time I heard of this problem), everyone was surprised because they hadn't thought of it, but then we all slapped our foreheads and said, "of course!" 

But when it happens AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN ... that's totally inexcusable and I really can't understand it.  Don't they think that having unreadable text will hurt sales? 

I also agree that reviewers need to get a clue and downgrade scores of games with this issue.  It's as much of a flaw as any other picture quality issue.  What if half the weapon icons looked the same in a game?  I bet they'd say something.

NINJA GAIDEN 2... oh my god, such a big text, better imposible for people with SDTV. Why not all the developers make the same?? Lost odyssey was hard to read too.

Glad I have an HDTV.

The first game I bought for my 360 was Dead Rising. After that crap I said never again to playing my xbox on an SDTV. I honestly couldn't read a single line of text in that game. I ended up hooking my 360 up to my computer monitor until I could afford a HDTV.

Legitimately it sucks but it's hardly the first time this problem has arrisen in the HD console world.

And LOL at calling this arrogant. The game is more likely gone gold and the discs have been pressed. There is no way to go back and fix something like this at such a late stage. I feel for people with SDTV's because I had to go through that crap at the beginning of my console ownership. With enough games coming out this holiday I think people will just find something else to play. Sucks but such is life.

The guy has hundreds of posts on the microsoft forum downtalking all 360 exclusives, talking about how he's not gonna buy every game that comes out exclusively for the 360 while he flashes a blatant advertisment for the ps3 in his sig, bulletpoints and pricepoints included.

So yeah, either his head isn't functioning properly or the account is run by a bunch of PR interns.

I guess I won't be buying it then. I have an SDTV and I couldn't follow anything that went on in Dead Rising and I could barely read a word of Banjo so I won't be going through that again.

is this as bad as dead rising, cause even that was readable on sdtv, i beat it that way only went back latter to beat it on hd where it was much better

I had no problems with reading the text (good eyes), but I thought it scrolled too fast and I missed a few text parts here and there (at least in the German demo)

To people asking questions about how bad it is you could always just try demo out to see for yourself

If you don't have gold it should be available by the end of the week to silver members.