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#1 staticks
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Beyond: Two Souls looked absolutely incredible. Visually, it looked just as good to my eyes as anything else shown at the show.

Watch Dogs is very obviously going to be a next-gen launch title (although the PS3 and 360 will get toned-down ports), so it's not a fair comparison in the first place. On a purely technical basis, it was beyond almost every other game shown (a combination of the graphics, the open world, the multiplayer functionality, and the sophisticated AI/physics).

Anyway, the PS3 is 5+ year old hardware, for god's sake. 360 is six years old. What the hell do you people expect, Avatar quality graphics? Use some logic and common sense, please.

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#2 staticks
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poogawata: The reason you can't switch off 576p is because the PS3 has no automatic internal scaler. That means the game itself that you're playing must support 1080i or 1080p (software upscaled) in order for you to be able to run it in 1080p/i. Unfortunately, most PS3 games ONLY support 720p and 480p or 576p, NOT 1080p/i; therefore, Sony forces you to have 576p or 480p checked at ALL TIMES and you can't check them off.

Some games, which are software upscaled to 1080p/i, such as GTAIV or COD4, will automatically run at 1080p/i, even if you have 576p checked.

For more information on the PS3's lack of 1080 support, check out this thread: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&thread.id=1543693
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#3 staticks
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GTA IV is UPSCALED 1080p. Not true/native 1080p (check the latest Gamespot multiplayer preview if you don't believe me).

GT5:P is most likely 1280x1080p, NOT full 1920x1080p. Polyphony, the developers, have said that targeting this resolution offers the best balance between sharpness and performance. If they were to target full 1920x1080p resolution, then they would have had to seriously cut back the graphics, effects, and detail, and it wouldn't be able to run at 60 fps. Full 1080p is TOO performance intensive to achieve those kinds of graphics and that 60 fps framerate.

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#4 staticks
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FYI, guys, this means it only supports 1080p UPSCALED, not native. The game runs at 1280x720p, but upscales to output 1080p for those of us with those expensive, high-end 1080p HDTVs.

Unlike the XB360, the PS3 doesn't upscale all games to 1080p automatically; the game developer (Rockstar, in this case) has to upscale the game themselves. It's a little bit of an inconvenience and performance drop for Rockstar, but it's a cool and nice gesture that they did it!