Microsoft no longer requires 1280x720 resolution on 360 titles


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I see no problem with this, I for one am more content playing a game with a good story and great gameplay than one that forces itself to be a HD eye candy game.

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Don't ya just love TV "standards".

what does tv standards have to do with it? they have 480i 480p 720p 1080i 1080p... these systems output to that standard... they just scale what ever the game has to that standard... so I am not seeing what you are trying to get at... the system still plays the video to standard sizes

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see? now you're being defensive, you feel like you need to mention the PS3 to balance it out. i'm not defensive, simply honest. besides, as was noted above some of the biggest games this generation have been less than 720 and if it wasn't admitted to by the publishers, we'd never be the wiser. and since this is something we all knew, the only reason you'd post this is to make some waves - and we all know there's a five-wheeled 360 bashing bandwagon out there, which i find amusing.

anyway i'm trying to get you to self-censor muhahahahaha :devil: don't take it personally, i consider you a cool dude.

I really don't understand what you are trying to accomplish but I will continue to post what I want and when I want. If anything I am a 360 fanboy, but again, I post topics I want to post. You are incorrect about the publishers admitting it, because this was found out originally by a group of gamers. The publishers then came online and said "yes this is true so we could achieve what we wanted in the game." Sure, later on down the line publishers would admit before hand that the resolutions were not 720p, but that was after the whole bitch-fest of 2007.

I posted this to get feedback from people. The topic didn't have any over-the-top, sensationalized wording. If I had posted "Xbox 360 cannot handle 720p, tells developers to lower resolution," then maybe I can understand your point. The way I see it, you have your Pro-360 Flame Suit on 24/7 on these forums and if someone attempts to put anything negative on the forums, you jump on their ****.

I won't self-censor myself. :p

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almost the same thing, you took an obvious point everyone on the forum knew already and made a thread about it when we're basically talking a few pixels. of course you want to get attention, why else would you start a thread like that? anyway, i think you're intentionally making a big deal of a small issue, but don't misread me, that doesn't make you evil. jump on your ****? please, that sounds really unsanitary with all the flu viruses going around.

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I feel like all of us have been deceived through ideal marketing this generation. Not in the sense that it was a scam or if it even matters to any of us.

like most game boxes, a standard of 720p upscaled to 1080p.

It's almost as if next gen consoles after the 360/PS3 will 720p be fully standardized for every game. I'm not concerned because games look great on my projection hdtv 36" (which goes up to 720p). I can barely see jags if any.

As I learn more and more, I feel like the wisest thing to do is be patient with everything and not buy what companies try and sell to you. They hype it up as best they can and it undoubtedly works most of the time.

As gamers we should demand better. I really miss our old console wars. We really had a big voice back then, even now we do but it's in a direction I'm not too keen on.

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almost the same thing, you took an obvious point everyone on the forum knew already

Hmm, well I posted it because I didn't know about this.

Everyone knew games were coming out lower than 720p resolution, but I don't think we knew that Microsoft dropped it from their TCR. It could have been assumed but it definitely wasn't official.

Joystiq and Kotaku posted it, so I felt it was newsworthy. Obviously, not everyone agrees. ;)

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I just read some of this on the first page, and welll I just felt that consoles are way too far behind the technology. A soon to be outdated GTX 285 will run Crysis at 1152p just fine with very high shaders. And consoles can't even manage 720p.

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I just read some of this on the first page, and welll I just felt that consoles are way too far behind the technology. A soon to be outdated GTX 285 will run Crysis at 1152p just fine with very high shaders. And consoles can't even manage 720p.

You do realize the Xbox was launched nearly 4 years ago and had been in development much earlier than that, right?

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So yes, go play 1080p, congrats, we'll get 720p gaming at $199, thanks!

You may be paying $199, but you wont be getting much more coming at 720p like you hope now that this requirement is confirmed to be gone.

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You do realize the Xbox was launched nearly 4 years ago and had been in development much earlier than that, right?

Nail, meet head.

The 285 came out about seven months ago, the 360 will be four years old in about three months.

You do the math...

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no problem unrealistic, let me enjoy the benefit of the doubt and believe you had good intentions here :heart: but as you can see above, this type of thread can easily feed the trolls, who come out barking about completely irrelevant things like "woof woof consoles bad" and video cards that cost 80% of a 360/PS3 and will still be obsolete in 12 days while our machines run the same games at 60-70% capacity years and years after they were conceived. so i do advise some self-censorship in the interest of social harmony. learn from China, my friend, worse case scenario you can always send the tanks :busted:

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I just read some of this on the first page, and welll I just felt that consoles are way too far behind the technology. A soon to be outdated GTX 285 will run Crysis at 1152p just fine with very high shaders. And consoles can't even manage 720p.

That video card itself costs significantly more than a whole 360...

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Microsoft never really boasted about 1080p, that was Sony. 1080p support came to the Xbox360 a year after if I remember correctly.

1080p support was out of the box since day one.

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DM is right well in a way, though 360 was capable to output 1080p since day 1. 360 actually able to display 360 not until after MS released the patch I think in Oct '06 update and when they released HDMI cable for 360.

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