This is what I've been currently playing...

1) Call of Jaurez: PC - finished it
2) Resident Evil 4: Wii
3) Superman Returns/Lost Planet: 360
4) Resistance: PS3

Now that I have your attention.

I also have the 360, the Wii and a PC that can play today's games. I also had all of last generation consoles, too.

I'm not here to brag, I'm here to educate. When it came to my PC and all the last generation consoles, I "didn't" have a favorite. I simply went to the system, the game I wanted to play, was for. When it cam to cross platform games, I usually stuck to the platform the game was originally designed for or what seemed to work best for me. So on a game level, the system wasn't the issue, it was always the game. It's human nature to be biased towards what you sunk your hard earned money into.

Since I own all of the next-gen hardware, the same holds true. Each system give me that unique WOW as well as the occasional WTF.

I must give one system a little extra "Way to go, good Job". That system is the Wii. What the Wii has done, for the first time ever, is given me the opportunity to play video games with my wife and people who never play video games (or other wise shun video games). Once they see you waving that wand around in Wii sports, they're like, "Let me try that". The trick is to make a Mii of them, ahead of time (oh, look at that, there you are...). These same people, their eyes will glaze over when I show them the amazing graphics in the 360 and the PS3 games I play. The Wii may other wise, bridge the gap, for people who don't play video games, to now test the waters. For them, it's like the training wheels and once they get over their fear/bias of video games, they'll be stepping up to even other bigger games and possibly bigger systems.

Looking forward to playing...

1) Bioshock: 360
2) Heavenly Sward: PS3
3) Metrod Prime: Wii
4) Left 4 Dead: PC

You must have newer equipment.

I looked on the back of some of my 360 and PS3 games and they do specify the resolutions supported by the game. Example: Lost Planet on the 360 says it supports 1080p and 1080i. I didn't realize it worked that way.

This whole discussion has opened my eyes. Can't read that fine print on the back of the box.

I don't remember where I saw it because I poured over tons of links via google.

It kind of makes sence. It takes more horse power to render 1920x1080 then to 1280x720. Think of this in terms of PC gaming how the game speed will drop in higher resolutions. So for a game on a console, you need to put a cap on the resolution for rendering a 3D game. Perhaps in the future, a game may proclaim that it renders in true 1080p but right now, I don't think any of them do.

As far as movies go, I'm sure it displayes in true 1080p because your just displaying data and you don't have all the cpu overhead of a 3D game.

Thanks for the info.

I did a bunch of research. What the deal seems to be is that the max resolution for 360 and PS3 games is 720p (1280 x 720). When you set your TV higher like 1080i or 1080p, the image is scaled up. The game itself is not rendered in the higher resolution (1920 x 1080), which would provide more detail. Since the image is scaled up on-the-fly via the hardware, you may see some artifacts. A good example of this is when you run an LCD monitor in a non-native resolution. The screen of data is changed/scaled/sized to fit the resolution.

What's up with that?

Had my PS3 setup for 1080i and pop the game in and it says it look better at 720i. What? I should be able to run the game at any resolution I want or need to.

With my new PS3 running in 1080i, I visited the PS-Store and web.

Do they really think you can read the text at the size that it is at? I have to get up and get real close to the screen just to read it. Any way to make the fonts bigger?