EA Claims First Xbox 360 1080p Game Crown Posted by XanTium | February 7 17:54 EST

From gamasutra.com: [QUOTE] Following yesterday's news that Sega's March 20 release of Virtua Tennis 3 would herald the first Xbox 360 game to feature native 1080p support, a representative from Electronic Arts has revealed to Gamasutra that its upcoming NBA Street Homecourt, shipping a month earlier on February 20, will also support the high end resolution on Xbox 360. While Microsoft first announced support for native 1080p games and movies in its October 2006 Xbox Live update, it heralded a number of titles competing to be the first to offer the highest-end HD resolution, and it appears that EA's title will indeed beat Sega's to retail with the hitherto not well-publicized resolution included. [/QUOTE] Full Story: gamasutra.com

WOOhooo!!!!

My Sceptre 37` Naga Lcd 1080p Native has been waiting for this for 2 months since it was birthed from its packaging!

Cant wait for future games....they are gonna be slick

Ok, while this sounds good on the surface, it is a double edged sword.

All games can quite easily claim 1080p, but nothing is free. Say goodbye to scene complexity and special effects just to push reasonable framerates at higher resolutions. 720p should be the standard for this Gen. Curse Sony with their lies pushing M$ to compete on this false front.

Muz

Hence why the first games supporting 1080p are virtual tennis and NBA Street Homecourt

gears of war runs in 1080 and looks awsome. If gears of war can do it, why can't everything else (with significantly worse graphics)

Heh, I've been playing games in 1080p for a long time now....on the PC.

It's still good that the 360 is getting 1080p titles though. Maybe that will finally shut those blind PS3 fanboys up - "BUT TEH 360 ONLY UPSCALES TO 1808p! TEH SUXORZ NO NATVIE RANDORINGN!!!!11!"


Gears is rendered in 720p and upscaled to your desired resolution. This article is talking about games that are natively rendered by the GPU in 1080p.

I think ITs BULLSH**

maybe its cuz those are two of the first games in development with both systems out, and to be released on both.

a full 1080p game for the 360 ???? I wonder if it will be up scaled because I thought the only way as of right now to get 1080p is threw HDMI. Which the xbox does not have a hdmi connection. So in other words if your tv handles the 1080p the xbox will up scale it to that. Then in return EA can say they made the first true 1080p game for the 360. All I say is keep the game at 720p or 1080i I can only wonder how many gpu and cpu ARE GOING TO MELT

You thought wrong.

"Component video is capable of producing signals such as 480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p."

wasnt lost planet the first?

hooray for EA!

i thought splinter cell double agent was the first 1080p game :?

yea I was just gona say ask that. I herd some different stuff about it being 1080p or not, because it doesnt say its 1080p on the back of the game. Maybe these will say 1080p on the back.

Good for EA. I will buy a game just because I can play it in 1080P. Other developers should take note.

Remember this "Most games can’t justify running at higher than 1280x720—it would actually make them look worse because of the compromises they will have to make in other areas." from a Ms blog.

http://ozymandias.com/archive/2006/10/21/C...-Rendering.aspx

Hopefully new 360 with hdmi will have more memory on gpu but highly doubtful.

Lost Planet was the first to do 1080p. just looked at the back of the box.

Upscaled from 720p...

I know the demo wasn't 1080p. It didn't look like a 1080p game on my display; looked like 720p.

yayyyy

That's weird... so many people are claiming there are other 1080p games... but I guess EA is the first to claim it....

If you sit close you can tell that superman, SC:DA, Lost Planet and everything else aren't rendered in 1080p, they're just upscaled. At a distance it looks fine, up close not so much. You'd have to play a pc game in 1080p to know what to look for. I'm downloading the nba street demo now, which (the full version anyway) is supposed to have native 1080p.

Tennis and NBA aren't taxing games at all. So 1080p at 60fps is doable with those type of games but like some have already said, Gears of War would run or look like shit if it were natively rendered at 1080p. So any of those type of games would be out of the question.


I'm happy this is happening because now an HDMI Xbox 360 is more of a possibility even though MS has said officially that it's just something they're toying with. Those prototypes could become real someday!

Nice but I don't really give a shit anyway. At 3 meters from my television, at 30-60 fps I for one won't see much difference between 720p and 1080p, and if you're really concentrating on the gameplay you shouldn't even have time to really notice. Also, like some posters already noted: remember that 1080p rendering takes 4x more pixel crunching power, and this has to come from *somewhere*. Think less multitexturing, simpler vertex & pixel shaders etc. This will make games look crappier than they do now, *especially* on 1080p...

I agree with the guy before: damn Sony for hyping up the 1080p bullshit so far that MS gave in to it. This is like choosing quantity over quality, just to be able to bad-mouth and yell at each other... . It's especially sad knowing that the PS3 will have mostly 720p games as well, seeing that it has a weaker GPU than the 360.

BTW, playing HDTV / 1080p is a different subject, 1080p is great for that...

That is probably the only reason anyone would get that game.

Too bad NBA Street's framerate takes a hit at 1080p and is only 30fps, while it's 60fps at 720p.

Virtua Tennis 3 is 60fps at 1080p with 2xAA.

Even if NBA Street is first, it'll play worse at 1080p, so screw you, EA.