Bad choice imo, I like Mark Wahlberg, but I don't think he really fits the part. I'm kind of dissapointed. =\Eddie-Vedder

He's a better choice than Brendan Fraser, who was the original choice for the part.

Resolution is nowhere near the most important thing.

The HVX200 is an HD camera that actually records using three 960x540 pixel chips. It might not be quite as sharp as some other HD cameras, but it looks better because it has better compression than the other cameras. It has better color, and it records its data at a higher bit-rate.

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[QUOTE="swamprat_basic"]What does that say for PS3 when some of those games look better than "full HD" PS3 games?Nerkcon

The PS3's graphics card is about as powerful as a Geforce 7 and the 360 has a Geforce 8 along with more video RAM. Sony likes to go for the strongest CPU.

Why does it matter how the Xbox 360 achieves the graphics for those games, if, in the end, they look better than most PS3 games?

I don't know how to reply that that... are you saying specs don't matter? I wasn't going against you. How are games so different then DVDs? I know the programming is very different but what about the general format?

Games are completely different from DVD movies. The reason Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is needed for HD movies is because of storage space, and the fact that standard DVD players are only designed to play Mpeg-2, which is nowhere near the best video codec anymore.

Games are really only limited by the read rate of the disc drives, though the PS3 only has a 2x Blu-Ray drive which is actually potentially slower than the DVD drive in the Xbox 360. They are also limited by storage space, but in terms of graphics that'll only really effect textures, but they've pretty much found a way around that with mapping techniques. The size of the disc is more likely to effect the length of the game's content than the quality of the graphics.

[QUOTE="swamprat_basic"]What does that say for PS3 when some of those games look better than "full HD" PS3 games?Nerkcon

The PS3's graphics card is about as powerful as a Geforce 7 and the 360 has a Geforce 8 along with more video RAM. Sony likes to go for the strongest CPU.

Why does it matter how the Xbox 360 achieves the graphics for those games, if, in the end, they look better than most PS3 games?

It can never be fully HD either because it has standard DVD9 as it's normal format. It can only be up scaled to HD which doesn't look as good as something that was build to be HD from the ground up.Nerkcon

You'd be right if we were talking about DVD movies, but no, we're talking about games.

Look what happened to people who bought the PS3 at the beginning. They bought it at its most expensive, and they bought it when it didn't have any games worth playing. Now that it is starting to get some decent games (not great, but decent), the system is dramatically less expensive. By the time that the PS3 has some great games, the price will have gone down again. So, let me ask a question: what person in their right mind has all ready bought a PS3?

If you are not interested in Xbox 360, you should be waiting until the PS3's price has gone down even more, and the system actually has some games worth playing.