The PS3 (and 360 for that matter) can barely push 1080P without choking on its on textures. Each machine only has 256 MB Vram. They do have the capability to shift memory around (readdressing), but then something else suffers. They both have all of their games written for 720P. 1080P is only seen through the use of scalers and/or texture trickery. Games like Killzone 2 only run at 1080P through the selective "disuse" of antialiasing, where the game is purposely blurred in order to make up lose fps, or at best they don't use in anti-aliasing or af to sharpen textures (this would drag it down huge).
Before someone steps up and speaks of the power of ps3, remember that most of the PS3s power comes from the cell processor and not the gpu. The gpu is based on the Nvidia 7800GTX, and anyone whos in pc gaming knows this is an old chip.
These are technological limitations, not fanbased ones. Good games can still be made when your on a graphics budget. We won't see 1080P really be used heavily and properly (with all bells and whistles) until the next console comes out. This isn't the old days where a new console was twice as powerful. While the PS3 is alot more powerful than the PS2, this is the first time they are venturing out of standard definition (640X480) and they jumped straight to (1280X720)+. The gpu would have been alot more powerful just to break even, and on top of it they went to (1920X1080) in some cases, which was already hard for those chips when pc users were using them extensively.
If your a console player who doesn't use a pc, you may have a problem believing this because of all the hype that the console makers have shoved down your throat, so please don't hurt the messenger. The success of a console is based on games, not solely on graphics.
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