Re: [GD-General] Vector GUIs

[Noel L. <ll...@co...>]

phi...@pl... wrote:

> > Having said that, we also take it into account and ended up not
> supporting HDTV in MechAssault.
> 
> I wonder what proportion of console titles actually support HDTV, beyond
> 480p. All those extra pixels have to come from somewhere. 480p at 60fps, or
> 1080i at 15fps. 1080i at 60fps, with your 480p/i mode drawing 25% of
> potential. Supporting HDTV properly, sort of implies short-changing people
> without it, which is 99% of your market (self included).

By the way, my original comment was supposed to be "we also DID NOT
take it into account..." otherwise it makes no sense :-)

When I think of HDTV in consoles I'm mostly thinking of 480p, which is
not that huge a step up performance-wise but looks great on all
widescreen TVs.  Maybe 720 would be doable, but I agree that 1080i is
just a killer.  Both the fill rate and the sheer amount of memory
required is huge. 


--Noel