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Originally Posted by Yoda9864
Am I the only one that is horrified by this trend of making games at less than HD resolutions on game machines meant to play HD games?
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Meant to play HD games? Says who? The marketing department?
I think the power of the console was a tad bit overhypes, more of a look at what it can do, not what it's likely to do.
PCs have gotten away with supporting high resolutions for years because they can always say "Buy better hardware." If you want console games to run at 60fps with no slowdown, you have no choice but to scale back on some unnecessary things, like resolution, to deliver a solid framerate.
I believe Moore is the one who said CPUs will double their speed annually and it's held true for decades. The Xbox 360 is now 3 years old, so that tells you something right there. They are also being limited by things like real-time compression and optical media. It's a lot faster to load from your harddrive, which is still unbelievably slow, and they can decompress on the installation and waste your HD space. Games need to be streamed at run-time off media that's incredibly slow.
But then again, we also live in a day and age where there are video cards on the market which are more expensive than a PS3 and have more RAM than Xbox 360 has, total. I wouldn't be surprised.