Criterion Comments on 1080

[juanleche]

http://www.criteriongames.com/forum/...php?f=12&t=127

Re: 1080i Support?
by HamishY@Criterion on Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:32 am

We are dedicated to providing players with the best game possible within our means. We chose 720p because it gave the best performance and results for the majority of people. I presume you were wanting to improve the quality of the experience by going to 1080i, but in reality it would significantly affect it and not in a good way. Both the memory constraints and the performance cost mean that for our particular game the trade-off is not beneficial either to frame-rate or graphical quality. We will continue to look at ways we can achieve 1080i without serious compromise, but as it stands right now it is not looking likely. Even an extra 1-2% rendering cost would start causing significant framerate problems.

I hope you understand.

Hamish

In my opinion if some games can upscale without suffering (see warhawk, uncharted, assasins creed and turok which added support after releaseing the game) and other developers can not acheive this, then there is a real breakdown in sharing know how amoungst the dev community, which is a shame really.

Of course if the PS3 could upscale ala every other HD device (like you cable STB or 360) then the disparity would be a non issue