Sam Fisher in 1080p
GamePro confirms that the latest installment of the Splinter Cell series, Double Agent, has support for 1080p. Thats right 1080p a month before the launch of the PS3!
GamePro found the 1080p option in a pre-release version of Double Agent, that was installed to a harddrive of a Xbox 360 Debug kit. The option was buried in the system options of the dashboard (where you normally set the resolution). But this isn’t a spot where you look everytime when you have a new game. To confirm their findings GamePro called Ubisoft and the Ubisoft representative answered the question with a short yes.
Currently it’s unclear whether the 1080p update is on the Double Agent disc or that you will have to wait until the next dashboard update. With the release of Double Agent two days ago this will probably be answered in the comments below. The Xbox 360 version is the only one that has the 1080p mode as no other platform currently supports it.
it’s probaly on the disc, and you’ll get via live. The disc for the people without xbl i guess.
I just got the reatil disk so I will have a look.
Although on the back it does say only: HDTV 480p/720p/1080i
Considering the Dash Update hasnt updated the system I would be very surprised if ti was onthe game ^^
Its not in 1080p. Ubisoft have just confirmed it isnt.
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My SCDA didn’t update anything. I highly doubt that it would run 1080p too.
Why is it so hard to believe that the pre-release version has 1080p enabled? We all know it’s coming!
Yes Ubisoft did confirm it. Ive got about two sites saying did .
How is this new information? That’s only choosing the output signal on your console. It’s been stated that all current content will be upscaled to 1080p. If you have a tv capable of 1080p just set the output like you would with any other tv, and all content (movies only via VGA) will be displayed at 1080p - upscaled or native.
Sorry about the double post, but is this information suggesting that Double Agent is a 1080p native game?
1080p is moot on 360 at the moment, even though I am of that 3% that owns a 1080p native set, with 1080p input capability, It can’t do it through either VGA or component… PS3 really will be the only console actually able to deliver it.. at what framerate we’ll have to see, hehe. I’m more interested in ps3 simply because of blu-ray movies… 500 bucks for a blu-ray player and a playstation… awesome.
why would you be interested in bluray movies? HDDVD has 2x as many of them on the market, and from all reviews, the hddvd movies have a better quality… not to mention the wole interactive layer bit….
And sorry to break this to you but i was at 2 local stores this weekend and all of the hdtv’s had vga inputs for 1080p i was suprised but its true… component is the one that doesnt do 1080p so what the heck are you talking about?
Bluray will go the same route as betamax, sacd, memorystick duo, and umd, seldomly used, and primarily by sony until they utterly fail.
wow billys right i forgot about minidisk… so that brings it to 5 formats that have pretty much failed completely, and with bluray it will be the sixth… ya i can see why people are so eager to jump on their bandwagon… personally i go with the one thats cost effective, looks better, and has more media on the market (more than 2x as much actually)
Component does do 1080p btw.
To the Sony fans that are using the “VGA won’t transmit 1080p” BS to sound smart… answer me this: Why can my monitor display 1600×1200 resolution over VGA??
Well first off anyone who says VGA can’t support 1080p is an idiot, the real issue before was whether or not the copy protecion would allow VGA as a supported full resolution output method, and apparently it is, but there are obvious pitfalls as VGA is analog and HDMI (the other supported method) is all digital. Plus a lot of HD tvs haven’t been supporting VGA as an input device (according to someone further up on this thread that is different for 1080p tvs howerver). I have never seen any Sony fanboy talking about how VGA doesn’t support 1080p but whoever is saying such nonsense doesn’t know the facts. And like a comment below here it isn’t a big stretch to upconvert from 720p to 1080p instead of 1080i as the conversion is the exact same, as a matter of fact it would be less work to do p than i as with i you’d have to then cut out the lines that can be rendered and send those out. This image really doesn’t mean anything other than the game can be DISPLAYED at 1080p, not rendered. And from reports SC:DA is rendered at 30fps 720p, now how you would go from 720 to 1080 without a drop in frame-rate is an interesting problem at best. 2 cents and all.
Blue ray = Betamax,and MiniDisk
Umm isn’t any game already at 1080i capable of 1080p? The resolution data is the same for the game it’s just what the display output is doing 1080 interlaced or 1080 progressive.
Hmmm.
Component video CAN do 1080p, BUT unfortunatly there are currently NO 1080p devices that accept 1080p signal via component video. They only accept 1080p via HDMI (or other digital connection).
If I am incorrect, then please let me know the make and model of the display that can!!
Flum….