Yes. I was testing Fable 1 on my HTPCs new HD 4670. I went from 720P to 1080p with/without 4x MSAA and the difference was huge!

1:1 pixel mapping is definately noticeable, if you want a sharp image up close the PC is still where you should look for it.

Not really, If the PS3 could potentially run KZ2 at 1080p with a steady 30FPS I would slap Sony and Guerilla games in that order for incompetence. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you'll like the tradeoffs for doing it.

Same can be said for 360.

i never said u can run everygame at 1080p i said that both systems can RUN in 1080p and ps3 has run it in more games. thats what im trying to say.

 Edit: and of course you picked prolly the hardest most complex game on the ps3 to run in 1080p to prove you point. LOL

Is gears native 1080p? i dont think it is. neither is fable 2.

But huge games like White knight story is native 1080p so if GT5 and  God of war 3 (rumored). These are huge games that are 1080p.

These are also NEW games. The power of the ps3 is not even tapped yet. i mean if WKS is 1080p then the ps3 can run a good sized 1080p game. You can not deny that. No matter what tricks you have to do.

Everygame has to drop some things to do other things so just because you have to drop things doesnt mean game over lol.

That was not the topic, though. The OP asked why so few PS3 games are 1080p. That's a perception thing. No-one is complaining about 360 games not being 1080p, because Microsoft didn't promise that.

A lot of people that bought a PS3 genuinly believed they would see most games in 1080p, because Sony more or less promised that. No-one is arguing that PS3 doesn't have more games that run in 1080 than 360. 

power of CELL+RSX , also power of 2 HDMI and power of 100% BC

ok so ps3 has THE MOST 1080p games on the market and thats a bad thing?

Then lemme ask some questions:

Why isnt gears 60 players online?

Why isnt halo 1080p?

Why is GT5 1080p and not forza?

Why is little big planet 720p?

Here is the answer

Because some devs had a choice to spend time on gameplay or 1080p or online features. They CHOOSE to make the games that way and in MOST cases (not all) it has nuthin to do with the system they created it on.

So in short (to answer the op) the devs are lazy and the ps3 is hard to make games for so they made a choice not to make it in 1080p. its not that the ps3 (or 360) can not handle it because there are games that prove that they can.

You're really becoming annoying now. Stop playing the misunderstood fanboy. NO-ONE said having more 1080p games is a bad thing. It also has nothing to do with lazy devs, since MGS4 is not 1080p, and that's hardly a lazy effort. PS3 can't handle it, which is fine, but Sony oversold its capacities.

The games that are 1080p use less of the hardware for other things.

The issue is choose, as you said it yourself. PS3 can't run everything the devs would want it to, so they are forced to do tradeoffs between resolution/polycount/effects/framerate etc. So, in order to get the best detail out of it, the devs take the route of lower resotion, since it's the least noticeable tradeoff. CoD4 runs on 600p, GTA4 620p etc. Even one of Sonys own flagships, GT5, isn't running on standard 1080p, since i'd recall it has resolution of 1280x1080.

And the reason why people see this as a problem, is because Sony promised "full HD" for people, which of course would be possible, but then it would lose graphically to 720p games on 360 (and M$ never promised more than 720p resolution).

LACK of optimization.

Neither the PS3 or 360 are really capable of running complex games at 1080p. You see some PSN titles at 1080p, or some more advanced titles which fit nicely into the "easy to render" bucket running at 1080p (space games, some racing games, etc.). Otherwise it'll be the next gen before we see GPUs capable of rendering 1920x1080 at decent framerates.

You don't even see many high-end PC graphics cards rendering at 30 fps at that resolution for complicated games, let alone 60fps. The fact that some games, like WipEout HD, run at 60 fps, and at 1080p, at all is downright phenominal, given the ages of the PS3 and 360s GPUs.

Sony advertized that the PS3 was capable of running games at 1080p at launch, which was, and is, true.  The 360, at launch, didn't support HDMI, and thus could not support 1080p gaming in any regard.  Sony never claimed that "all" or "lots" of games would run at 1080p... just that it was possible.  And frankly, the PS3 has more 1080p games than I would expect -- it certainly has a lot more than the 360 does.