You're full of it. You wouldnt notice that change because 45 is still silky smooth.

Why do people still claim there is no difference between 480p and 1080p?

Oh good god mate..... You're complaining that your HD games of this generation don't lock in at 60fps and then you begin praising your 30fps pixel crap games? (That belong in the last generation, and although some are at 60fps a large majority are not, and the Wii experiences slow downs too)

I think you're just a bit too picky pal.

Which current HD game runs at 1080p?

Even most HD games run below 720p most of the time. It's called upscaling, that's all.

Why are you acting like this is not an issue with current HD games? How about you look at the situation in an unbiased way?

I was talking about movies with that comment, and I think it's ridiculous that you complain about framerates for these amazing looking games.

If I pay you $200 or $400 can you draw 60 frames per second for 10 years? I think not.

Well, that's exactly the problem. I pay big bucks for getting stuff that is supposed to blow my mind. Explain to me why some HD games can pull it off, i.e. Call of Duty 4/5, Ninja Gaiden 2 (there's just one intensive part in the game, and it's on that stairway with a million of enemies coming at you. Epic by the way), etc? Is it the developers trying too hard when they know the current generation of consoles can't handle teh grafx? I mean, the 360 and the PS3 are not PCs (yet)! If you want my opinion, it would be better to remove a few graphic effects just to make the game run well and blow the mind of "Wii boys" like me. You know what I'm saying? If developers can pull it off with last gen hardware, why can't developers do it on the 360 and PS3?

With that said, we've yet to see the final product for GoW III, and I hope it will blow my mind! ^^

Oh, and that bolded part didn't make any sense. o_O

COD4 native resolution is only 600p

and NGII is only 585p

so both games are not even true HD

GOW III is "supposedly" 1080p native so it renders almost double the lines in the above games

but I agree with you that GOW III is still having almost another full year of development
, so you'll never know but I'm hoping it will not dissopoint like GOW I&II

The bold is to remind you that the console you bought can do amazing things that a human couldn't dream of doing, for example rendering a battle scene at 60 fps.... And I was wondering if I paid you "big bucks" if you could do the same as my PS3... Obviously you couldnt.

You're putting the Frames Per Second on a pedistal(sp?), you're acting as if they are this godly thing and if you miss just one it's the end of the world. To me 60fps in these games is quite an accomplishment even if it dips at some points.

Perhaps it's because I know more about the hardware and understand how difficult these tasks are, that is why I am not bothered by it. Perhaps you should be paying more attention to what you're doing in the game than how many frames you're seeing.

Just think about it for a second, think about all the things that go on in GOW, the amazing lighting, the physics and particle effects, the quickness of the characters, all these changes happening every single second. It truly is impressive.

Now take a peek at your Wii, limited physics, extremely limited lighting and shadows. It too is a Next Generation console, so if you are to be disappointed in anything it should be in it. The PS3 and 360 have to do 100's if not 1000's of more things in rendering a game than the Wii, and the 360 costs LESS than it.

I really want to pick that up, looks awesome!

True, it's all in the perceived quality. But there are also smart ways to make frame drops less noticeable to the player.

For example Wipeout dinamically changes resolution frame by frame to compensate for frame dips. And I had to read the frame analysis of KZ2 to know that it had those frame dips: the motion blur makes them totally unnoticeable for me through my several playthroughs, save for the loading pauses.

I wonder if a dynamical motion blur can be implemented depending on instant framerate...