Official Xbox 360 Thread

[RoleTroll]

Also, is the 360 even powerful enough to display games in 1080p without dropping the framerate to 5 frames-per-second?

GT4 on the PS2 ran at 1080i with a solid 60 fps. Sure, the 360 can do 1080p at 60 fps, but the quality of the texturing, AI, etc. may suffer a little.

[EvilMog]

GT4 on the PS2 ran at 1080i with a solid 60 fps. Sure, the 360 can do 1080p at 60 fps, but the quality of the texturing, AI, etc. may suffer a little.

If the PS3 does it why wouldnt the 360?

[Schlep]

Blue Dragon trailer

Blue Dragon gameplay

[Joust Williams]

About the 1080p thing I dunno if this is OFN to you guys but:

Microsoft announced starting this fall Xbox 360 will be able to support games and movies in 1080p. Xbox 360's HD-DVD movie playback function will also support 1080p. The first batch of titles supporting 1080p include:

Blue Dragon (Microsoft Game Studio)
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Capcom)
Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 (Tecmo)
Trusty Bell (Namco Bandai)


So chances are lots of games can do it. Personally I have always thought that this is possible. The biggest difference is just how big of a framebuffer you need, and some games don't come close to taxing the Zboz's memory at 1080i. Remember, that's only (only, heh) 1920x1080. PC games have been running at 1600x1200 for a long time with lots of AA and high quality anisotropic filtering. Of course it's more than possible (but lame) if the real time cinematics (no AI, etc) are the only thing being displayed in 1080p...and if you have a projector or something that you manually have to change the resolution that would suck (as in GT4, lawl Sony).

[gamevet]

HDMI on the 360 would be awesome. I hope an HDMI adapter is on the way, cuz as far as i know you can only get 1080p using HDMI or DVI...true?

1080p can be done through component cables.

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messa...79/122868.html

The upshot of this article--in case you're not inclined to read all the details--is that it's very hard to predict whether a digital DVI or HDMI connection will produce a better or worse image than an analog component video connection. There will often be significant differences between the digital and the analog signals, but those differences are not inherent in the connection type and instead depend upon the characteristics of the source device (e.g., your DVD player) and the display device (e.g., your TV set). Why that is, however, requires a bit more discussion.

[TobalRox]

GT4 on the PS2 ran at 1080i with a solid 60 fps. Sure, the 360 can do 1080p at 60 fps, but the quality of the texturing, AI, etc. may suffer a little.

1080i? Last I heard, the best the system could produce was 480p, and that was only in a handfull of titles since the system could barely handle that.

[Tracer]

Most of the games that look really cool coming out for zboz are coming from Japan. What gives?

I guess it's the TGS but still: WTF^^^^

[gamevet]

1080i? Last I heard, the best the system could produce was 480p, and that was only in a handfull of titles since the system could barely handle that.

If you're talking about the PS2, GT4 did indeed run at 1080i. The only problem was, that the final race results screen would flicker badly.

[Schlep]

New Lost Planet trailer mov wmv

[Joust Williams]

"Most of the games that look really cool coming out for zboz are coming from Japan."

They are?