foogledricks Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 This is super important to me. I feel that Xbox's support for HD has been such a tease, and I both hope and expect HD to be largely supported in the Next Gen. If consoles are truly going to capture the PC gamer audience, first person shooters have to played in higher than 640x480. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bryan Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Everybody duck - it's another Keith Poll!! :green: My thought is that the level of HD support in the next gen systems will be better than the present options, but not at the level of general acceptance that HD will have in 2006. The specs and components for the new systems will have to be finalized at some point in the near future, which will still precede mainstream adoption of HD by the masses. Hope I'm wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 I vote No, but it recorded my vote as mostly. :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsappel Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 I voted "Mostly" as I think at least progressive scan will be fairly standard (though by no means universal) and it sounds like Xbox Next is going for Hi-Def. BUT, while this is important to us and those like us, I don't think it means squat (and might even be a negative) for the vast majority of consumers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 I agree with Alan. Here in NYC, I don't know a single person who has HD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyjaw Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 I also think it's not going to be a big thing, yet. Even if the number of HD games quadrupled, it would still be a very tiny minority of games. I'm sure there will be more HD games than there are now, but it will be a small market, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 I think it all depends on how expensive RAM is at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry the Clown Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 I had to side with 'mostly'... When a market as large as Europe doesn't even have HDTV broadcasts of any kind with no plans to officialy introduce HDTV over the next few years, and few top end Euro TVs beind able to do anything more than PAL Prgoressive, I can't say it'd be something any of the console producers will see as a 100% must have. Generally I think the next generation of consoles will see the situation we have with the X-box right now, where the vast majority of titles support progressive scan leaving it up to the developer whether they introduce titles at higher HD resolutions. Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 My vote is also for mostly. While the HD revolution is still coming,it won't be in time for the next generation of systems. While it would be awesome to have, I think that only the top-name big time game releases will have a better resolution than 480p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Failsafe Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 I voted MOSTLY as well. Pretty much what everyone else is saying. I think we will see more and more supporting 720p and 1080i but the level of HD penetration into the marketplace will not be such that every game developer will include it. It would be nice though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted February 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 I hope that Microsoft basically allocates a certain amount of RAM for HD, not giving the developer the option. That is what they did with the XBlive headset... and that has been a success... a forced success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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