RicoD

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/751/751496p1.html


Looks like I might be forced to buy a 360 :hs:

Draconius

Metal Geat huh?

AP2

:rofl:

RicoD

Oh shit h:

You know what I meant

HawtPants

Metal Geatse? :eek4:

Brar

no Wii no care h:

Epoch

Meh. Bullshit to help sell a mediocre platform. If MGS:4 does come to the XBox, it will most likely be a secondary release. In Japan, the XBox 360 is basically not selling at all, and here in the US, it hasn't sold to microsoft's expectations (according to their own marketing!). Give the PS3 a year, and lets see where the two platform sit?

And the Wii? Simply no power. I bet Kojima will make some sweet games for the Wii, as he has expressed interest to do so, but to downgrade MGS4 to perform on the Wii would be developmental suicide

wagz182ksu

To me a platform that costs 600 dollars and doesn't even have an internal scaler is the mediocore one.

Trust me, I wanted the PS3 to be sweet, but if you don't have a 1080p TV you are screwed.

720p = nice looking games on the ps3 but 480p resolution blu-ray playbay
1080i = 480p games and 1080i playback on blu-ray.

You are getting f'ed either way.

I wonder how sony will "fix" this problem? Can a firmware update fix something the system lacks in hardware? Not to my knowledge.

Then again the 360's HD-DVD decoding is all software based, so hey.

PS2 games look like crap too. Please see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCD9TwLrVs

for more information.

Merrill Lynch also predicts that sony's reign is over.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/2006...ii-xbox360.htm

"We forecast respective market shares at end-FY3/11 of Xbox 360 [at] 39 percent, PS3 [at] 34 percent and Wii [at] 27 percent, thus overturning Sony’s domination of the market with its PS2-based share of 69 percent, and doubling Microsoft and Nintendo’s respective market shares."

IluvJae

I think that would be a great idea seeing how alot of people who wanted a PS3 just for MGS:4 so how much the PS3 tanked and got the 360/wii combo.

Epoch

Uhh, yes. Firmware _can possibly_ do things like that, depending on how extensible the machine is. But, I think you're rather confused about the 720p playback issue. The only time the image is downgraded to 480p, AFAIK, is when you're playing a game that supports something like 480p, 720p, 1080p, and you have a TV that supports only 480p and 1080i. If the game itself doesn't know how to upscale, it will downscale. If you play a BluRay movie, it will follow a playback preference hiarchy of 1080p/1080i/720p/480p/480i, depending on the maximum resolution your TV supports.

Anyways, most "scaling" is cheating, especially scaling up. a 1080i scaled up image of a 720p source actually follows a 720p->540p->1080i path in most scaling devices, thus resulting in an image with only barely sharper resolution, in real terms, than a 480p signal, but with possible artifacting.

I bought a Samsung HDTV 2 years ago for about $500, and it supports 480i/480p/720p/1080i. That problem is almost nonpresent on most current TVs, and early adopters got screwed in more ways than PS3 720p... The DVI port will severly cripple quality there onces the broadcast flags start being put up.

PS3 tanked = PS3 on shelves, not selling at all. I'd draw more allusion to the PS3's launch to a premature birth that came too late, if that makes sense. Sony has about a year, and if by the end of 2007 things are the same, game content wise, then it would have failed.