The other day tragedy stuck me, my beloved Xbox 360 cafuffled itself and I knew it was only a short time before it finally carked it. Since I had two months left of my $90 extended warranty so I decided take it back to my local EB store and get a new one. To my not so suprise they were out of stock, all the EB's were out of stock of normal XB360. They had one XB Elite system, but I had to pay another $80 for it. Which I was considering when a thought crossed my mind, blu-ray has won the DVD format, PS3 has blu-ray, get a PS3. I asked the EB man if I could do this, and yes, he said yes. I was extatic. I got a PS3 for $50, how awesome I thought. I've been playing my PS3 for a few weeks now, I got 3 games, COD4, Burnout Paradise and The Darkness. All awesome games. But one thing kept happening with the games, for some reason even though I have a TV that supports 1080i the games were only playing at 720P. What was going on, why is Burnout playing at 720P? I went through all the settings on the console, I couldn't figure out why the games were only playing at 720P. Until I looked at the game cover, Burnout's only resolution is...720P. What is going on? Maybe it's just Burnout, the other games can support 1080i and p. So I was stumped at why the PS3 was only showing the minimum resolution on my TV. I forumed it a bit, and found that the PS3 will downscale games to 720P if the TV will not support 1080P, the reason I found was that a majority of the games only support 720P. A Majority? What games? Well I went on the hunt. Assasins Creed, Burnout Paradise and Devil May Cry 4. The three newest games released across both systems. What's going on, I had to find out if it was the game creaters decision. Alas it wasn't, after checking the XB360 versions of the games I found that all of them supported up to 1080p. What happened sony? What happened to more storage on Blu-Ray discs? What happened to the Cell Processor? What happened to High Definition gaming. Now I know some people will address that 720P is high definition. But it is not when the XB versions of the exact same game support better resolution, it is not when I've had blu-ray means high def drilled into my head, it is not when I trade in my beloved XB360 for a "superior" console system, or so they say. I say not, I say I am pissed off. I say if it wasn't for Metal Gear Solid 4 I would not have a PS3 right now. Damn you sony for making the PS3 so hard to program for and making everyone have to downgrade their games just to release it on your console. Damn you...


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