I saw Griffen's post on the COD4 resolution being 600P and it reminded me of a list I had made a few months ago about game resolutions. These are PS3 and 360 only, since the Wii is not branded as an HD machine.

It's surprising how many fall short of 720P. I'd like to make a more complete list, so if you know of any confirmed resolutions, please post them.

I've sort of been collecting this information for a little while from a few sources. Most of this info is from the Beyond3D forums - particularly Quaz51's posts.

 

SINGLE CONSOLE GAMES:

Bioshock: Xbox 360 - 720P

Call of Juarez: XBOX 360 - 720P 60FPS

Forza Motorsports 2: XBOX 360 - 720P w/ 2x AA

Gears of War: XBOX 360 - 720P w/ 2x AA

Gran Turismo HD: PS3 - 810P

GT5 Prologue Demo: PS3 - 720P w/ 2x AA

Halo 3: XBOX 360 - 640P

Heavenly Sword: PS3 - 720P w/ 4xAA

Ninja Gaiden Sigma: PS3 - 720P

Perfect Dark Zero: Xbox 360 - 640P

Project Gotham Racing 3: XBOX 360 - 576P w/2x AA

Project Gotham Racing 4: XBOX 360 - 720P w/ 2x AA

Resistance: Fall of Man: PS3 - 720P

Ridge Racer 6: PS3 - 810P

R&C: Tools of Destruction: PS3 - 704P



MULTIPLATFORM GAMES:

Call of Duty 3: XBOX 360 - 630P
Call of Duty 3: PS3 - 630P

FIFA 08: 720P w/2x AA - 360
FIFA 08: 720P - PS3

GRAW2: 720p - PS3
GRAW2: 720p w/2x AA - 360

Jericho Demo: 720P - 360
Jericho Demo: 560P - PS3

NCAA Football 08: Xbox 360 - 576P w/ 2x AA 60FPS
NCAA Football 08: PS3 - 576P w/ 2x AA 30FPS

Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground: PS3 - 576P
Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground: XBOX 360 - 720P

Skate: PS3 - 864P 30FPS
Skate: XBOX 360 - 720P w/4x AA 60 FPS

The Darkness: PS3 - 576P
The Darkness: XBOX 360 - 720P

Virtua Tennis 3: PS3 - 1080P w/ 2x AA 60FPS
Virtua Tennis 3: XBOX 360 - 1080P w/ 2x AA 60FPS

The things is that resolution takes up the frame buffer, since there are more pixels to manage. It may seem obvious, but many of the rendering tricks have to use all those pixels to help the graphics, and more pixels just means more work, and less of the frame buffer to use for other things (this applies to both systems).

Thus higher native resolution is actually a detriment to the best graphics. Unlike FMVs, where the detail is in the frames, games have their detail in the textures, which will still be HD, even if the screen resolution is low.

So just upscale them all, I say.

Take a look at this picture to get an idea of what these different resolutions are relative to each other.

 

LordTheNightKnight said: The things is that resolution takes up the frame buffer, since there are more pixels to manage. It may seem obvious, but many of the rendering tricks have to use all those pixels to help the graphics, and more pixels just means more work, and less of the frame buffer to use for other things (this applies to both systems). Thus higher native resolution is actually a detriment to the best graphics. Unlike FMVs, where the detail is in the frames, games have their detail in the textures, which will still be HD, even if the screen resolution is low. So just upscale them all, I say.

Very true. It's interesting to note that most of the games noted for their graphics are not 1080p. No one is going on and on about Virtua Tennis, but R&C, COD4, and Gears are all running at 720P or below and blowing people away. 

Obviously, it's not about the size of your pixels, but how you use them...