- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: jenesuispasbavar
Posted by: daSupremeOne
WHoa Halo 3 on 720 Natively....I guess 1080P will have to wait...UNLESS YOU HAVE AN ELITE...What a ripoff. I should of just waited and not bought into MS Cr@p when I bought the system at launch.
Umm. You don't need the Elite to play in 1080p. Every single Xbox 360 has the ultra-awesome scaler chip (Hana I believe) that can upscale from 720p to 1080p, and the last dashboard update even made it possible to play 1080p through component cables. Screw HDCP. Microsoft is awesome. Only with their consoles though.
Straight from the Frankie
"1080p at 60 fps is awesome for fighting games and barely a stretch for Live Arcade games. But if you want epic battles, dozens of bad guys, huge vistas and colossal structures, with advanced AI, HDR lighting and explosive physics, then you’re not getting those at 1080p at 60fps. Actually, that’s not entirely accurate – Halo 3 will display at 1080p through the Xbox Elite with its scaler and HDMI port, but not natively. We’ve seen it do just that and it looks utterly lovely. So if you have a 1080p TV, enjoy it yourself in a few weeks. Most people, and I mean the VAST majority of people don’t have a 1080p TV, so it would be foolish to sacrifice even a single feature for a bullet point number on the back of a box."
So he is saying you will have a "lovelier" and will "enjoy it yourself", as a 1080P HDTV owner, I feel I just got shafted. I will have to buy an Elite to play this game in 1080p. Why did I ever adopt in a launch console? MS had stated they were not going to do 1080P games, I accepted, and went with the purchase, but when they do this switcharoo, I just got shafted. It was us early adopters that made the system cool...