I like how everybody think that just because they have an HDTV everybody else in the world should have one.
The should continue to support SDTV, plain ans simple.
Should Games continue to support SDTV players?
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...and playing in SD is certainly not one of them. In shooters like Battlefireld, where you sometimes need to pay close attention to your surroundings to avoid walking into an ambush, playing in SD will only hamper your vision and lower your effectiveness in the game. I wouldn't want someone that can't tell the difference between a bush and and sniper right in front of him because he's playing on a crappy outdated TV in my team.
Rockman999
You're not only playing first person shooters on the wrong platform, but some (millions) do not get consoles to play online shooters. Which have always ben the realm of PCs.
You can get 20" HDTV tvs for under $200 now. People need to get with the timesCajunShooter
'HD' (which isn't even high definition these days) TVs have incredibly outdated resolutions. Those are most definitely not 'with the times'.
My monitor that can do 2500x1600, now that's real HD, and really up to date. Now if you want to be 'with the times', buy a PC. It's only 700$. If not, then your post is hypocritical. Consoles are outdated 6 year old pieces of hardware, which games are displayed on incredibly outdated resolutions.
Not that there is a problem with it, my SNES and my SDTV are great entertaintment.
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...and playing in SD is certainly not one of them. In shooters like Battlefireld, where you sometimes need to pay close attention to your surroundings to avoid walking into an ambush, playing in SD will only hamper your vision and lower your effectiveness in the game. I wouldn't want someone that can't tell the difference between a bush and and sniper right in front of him because he's playing on a crappy outdated TV in my team.
Lucianu
You're not only playing first person shooters on the wrong platform, but some (millions) do not get consoles to play online shooters. Which have always ben the realm of PCs.
You can get 20" HDTV tvs for under $200 now. People need to get with the timesCajunShooter
'HD' (which isn't even high definition these days) TVs have incredibly outdated resolutions. Those are most definitely not 'with the times'.
My monitor that can do 2500x1600, now that's real HD, and really up to date. Now if you want to be 'with the times', buy a PC. It's only 700$. If not, then your post is hypocritical. Consoles are outdated 6 year old pieces of hardware, which games are displayed on incredibly outdated resolutions.
Not that there is a problem with it, my SNES and my SDTV are great entertaintment.
1080P is "up to date" in the sense that it's the highest BROADCAST STANDARD that televisions use in the United States (and in most other countries, save maybe Japan). Actually we aren't hardly even broadcasting anything in 1080P yet, most HD is still considered a "premium" service by cable operators and it's only 720P or 1080i. We aren't even taking advantage of 1080P televisions yet with gaming consoles or cable TV. Blu Ray films are basically the only thing that REALLY take advantage of a 1080P television (forget that 1080P internet streaming crap).
Given that gaming consoles are designed for the living room, and the highest standard for TELEVISIONS is 1080P, that's where the standards will be for probably the next decade.
Going higher than 1080P is not even new in the PC world anyway, my obsolete NEC computer monitor did much higher than 1080P and that was purchased over 10 years ago. But having that higher resolution does absolutely nothing for me for watching movies, broadcast television, or any other form of video. It would only be usefull for 2 things really, high res photo work, and computer games (being 4:3 killed it for games anyway). Actually in my search for a new LED/LCD monitor a few months ago it seems like 1080P is becoming the standard for PC monitors as well, even though higher resolutions have been around for YEARS it's hardly cacthing on in the mainstream due to lack of source material.
1080P is "up to date" in the sense that it's the highest BROADCAST STANDARD that televisions use in the United States (and in most other countries, save maybe Japan). Actually we aren't hardly even broadcasting anything in 1080P yet, most HD is still considered a "premium" service by cable operators and it's only 720P or 1080i. We aren't even taking advantage of 1080P televisions yet with gaming consoles or cable TV. Blu Ray films are basically the only thing that REALLY take advantage of a 1080P television (forget that 1080P internet streaming crap).
Given that gaming consoles are designed for the living room, and the highest standard for TELEVISIONS is 1080P, that's where the standards will be for probably the next decade.
Going higher than 1080P is not even new in the PC world anyway, my obsolete NEC computer monitor did much higher than 1080P and that was purchased over 10 years ago. But having that higher resolution does absolutely nothing for me for watching movies, broadcast television, or any other form of video. It would only be usefull for 2 things really, high res photo work, and computer games (being 4:3 killed it for games anyway). Actually in my search for a new LED/LCD monitor a few months ago it seems like 1080P is becoming the standard for PC monitors as well, even though higher resolutions have been around for YEARS it's hardly cacthing on in the mainstream due to lack of source material.
2Chalupas
Yeah.. the thing is, i was not talking about TVs per se, and their capabilities to broadcast, but about gaming in general, if you can understand my point of view. Though it is considered standard for televisions and consoles, there is a form of gaming far more advanced and at much higher graphic quality which everyone knows about.
It was kind of ironic that console gamers had such hypocritical posts concerning SDTVs, a few posters actually judging people that have no problem gaming at those resolutions, wen considering what PC gaming represents. So i just gave them some food for thought, out of boredom.
I'm not gonna elaborate though, i can't argue with your post, it's a good post. 
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