No 1080i TV fix for PS3
Remember the story about the PS3 not up-scaling to 1080i if your TV doesn’t support 720p? That’s something the Xbox 360 has done since day one, but it seems Sony puts zero value into providing this feature for its customers. Here’s Sony’s new stance regarding this issue:
Sony has contacted us to let us know that they may have spoken a bit prematurely (regarding the issue of a patch coming). SCEA’s Dave Karraker, Sr. Director, Corporate Communications, informed GameDaily BIZ that they currently cannot confirm that this 1080i issue will be resolved via a firmware patch. The official line is now that they are “looking into the issue and haven’t stated any actions that will be taken regarding it.”
Sony’s new PlayStation 3 has encountered problems displaying high-definition visuals on HDTV sets that do not support 720p. Today Sony Computer Entertainment America confirmed the problem to GameDaily BIZ. PS3 games render images at either 720p or 1080p for High Definition, and you need 720p input on the TV to play select games that do not support 1080p.
This is an issue on the side of the individual television sets (not with the PS3 of course), which do not accept 720p input, so when a game outputs an HD signal only at 720p, these select TVs have to display the game at 480p instead.”
There’s just something about a company, who brags they could sell five million consoles with no games for it, that just screams arrogance. This story is just another example of that.
Sony: “With the PS3, Next-Gen & True HD starts with us…if you have the right TV.”
[Thanks to Mike (GT: Twisted Plastic) for the story]
November 25th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Sony, not fixing a problem with one of their products!? No way.
November 26th, 2006 at 12:36 am
sony…what are they doing.
November 26th, 2006 at 8:05 am
When you have time to take your **** out of Bill Gates ***, ask yourself so ******* what?
I’ll take a punt here and guess you don’t own either a PS3 or a TV that doesn’t support 720p, so why not expend you energy elsewhere
(found this site through Xbox.com, you know the site where you make helpful comments, who no comments about video marketplace?)
November 26th, 2006 at 8:09 am
Sorry for my earlier comment
It was an uncalled for knee jerk reaction
November 26th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Whether I have a 720p TV or a PS3 doesn’t matter, most casual gamers (which is the majority who want a PS3) don’t have an HDTV, and if they do, there’s a good chance it’s not a 720p TV, which until recently, was way more expensive than a 1080i TV. The point I’m trying to show is that Sony tries to justify the Blu-Ray format and expensive price that is tacked onto the PS3 by saying that the PS3 demands to be in HD and nothing else is suitable.
Why then does the PS3 not come with the necessary cables to hook up to an HDTV? Why do they forget about half the HDTV user-base whose TVs don’t do 720p, but do the (also HD) 1080i resolution? There’s also the fact that if you’re not sloppy with development, a very small number of games will need to be on more than on DVD. Sony would have you believed that all games need 25+GB, that is just not the case. While graphics and games grow with time, so do compression techniques, and I’ve even done news entries on the amazing techniques recently found.
http://www.unscleric.com/news/2006/10/05/why-blu-ray-is-a-waste/
This site not about me sucking up to Bill Gates, it’s about me trying to inform people about a company within the gaming industry that does not care about gamers, and is actually doing things BAD for gaming just to further their own business agenda. Microsoft is furthering their business agenda also with things like Live Anywhere, but that is making gaming more FUN for those who choose to take part. Paying extra for Sony’s Blu-Ray, which has been trojan-horsed into the PS3 while they weakly try to justify it is not fun for anyone.
November 26th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
I agree that Sonys focus appears to have shifted away from Games Consoles to pushing Blue-Ray and a multi-media hub, but I’m not sure highlighting their every mistake does Microsoft and the 360 any good. I already get the sense that this ‘console war’ is becoming more of a propaganda war which could rapidly become tiring to consumers.
From a gaming perspective I think Microsoft are on the right track (I could swear at times they reading my mind) and the focus should be on the positives of the 360, not the negatives of the PS3 (after all it’s just shooting fish in a barrel)
November 26th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
The flaw in ignoring Sony’s negatives (and this site does emphasize positives for 360 whenever the chance is given) is that the majority of the major news outlets do that exact thing. Oddly enough Sony is very much a media company that has enough pull to affect other companies’ business at will. The same goes for the major gaming websites and publications. They need to ensure that they have the funds to continue running, which, in some cases, won’t happen if Sony’s angry. That’s why things like the Dreamcast and E3 are not longer here.
If this site ignores Sony’s arrogance and greed at the expense of the gamer, then how is it any better than those other sites? For what reason does it then have to exist?
November 26th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
That reminds me, Fox News Channel yesterday ran another story on the PS3 (besides the 10 hours total they gave it on the 17th launch day) and they still claimed that Sony had launched 400,000 units in the USA alone. That is already known to be false, but they keep insisting. I honestly wish the competition, mainly Sony, would do something awesome that I could ignore, but it just doesn’t happen. Every innovate and pioneering effort in the gaming industry is coming from the Xbox team, and it’s been that way for several years now.
November 26th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Another thing, why does Sony keep lieing about their launch numbers? Makes no sense to me, it’s not going to effect the number of units they sell if they just tell the truch, I mean really.
November 26th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Ok to get in the spirit of things have you seen the article on Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/26/resistance-17-75gb-of-garbage/
Reckons 17.74 gig of the data on Resistance Blue-Ray disc is just padding
November 26th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Thanks for the link, I hadn’t seen that yet, but I had heard of that exact thing a couple months ago, that’s what I meant by sloppy development. It seems they deliberately made it larger than it needed to be though to satisfy Sony.
November 26th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
MS had made mistakes with the 360 and will continue to make mistakes. I think the issue is that when Sony acts as arrogant as they have in past it’s honestly more fun to point out their mistakes. They act and talk like they do no wrong. Plus of ‘The Big Three’ Sony seems the least likely to actually take gamers feedback as a serious source to effect change. Meanwhile MS actually reads and listens to what gamers want and makes changes based on that. The 360 Dashboard being a major example of that. Now Sony may change their ways with Playstaion Network, that remains to be seen. What I do is that blind devotion to any of the three is just a bad idea…