SD console gamers to become obsolete to developers?

mariachi-19

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I've started noticing it quiet regularly in video games. Since the start of the year and a systems update, my ps3 on my SD tv has had varying issues of frame rate problems. GTA4 has become noticeably more stuttery 'although this is a known issue with GTA but more so then i've had before' and GT5:P picked up a glitch last year with the SPEC 3 update thats only just come to head, where by non HDMI cable users have a lag frame rate issue on time trial modes. Assasins creed has also become rather choppy and while playable, rather annoying.

Also drops in stutters in Fifa replays and cut scenes within Arkham Asylum.

With the fact that PD have made no effort to fix the gt issue, and GTA4 runs a lot smoother on my brothers ps3 on his HD TV, are game developers not bothering to cater for the SD tv owners anymore?
 
I don't know, I'll have to try it. On the PS3 at least it's always going to be slightly slower playing a game in SD, because it doesn't have a scaler "chip" like the 360 has, and most games don't render in SD resolutions even if that's all that is selected, so a software downscale has to happen at some point. That possibly may have been done using a call to some function in the OS, and maybe it's been borked somehow.

Here is an article that you may find interesting.

Standard Def: The Forgotten Generation | DigitalFoundry
 
Far too many acronyms, you started to sound like a less pretentious Weaste.


But to answer you question; You're probably right. im pretty sure you will see this start to happen more, as a ploy to force all gamers to update their kit.
 
You can understand that from the perspective of Sony, yes, it's in their interests that you go and buy a new TV, which is probably why there is no output scaler on the PS3, nor 60Hz support at standard definition for the PAL models, even though my old WEGA CRT could take a 60Hz signal no problem.
 
and whether its a deliberate ploy by the manufacturers to force us into upgrading our systems.
 
But... If you spend the money on a PS3 or similar why won't you spend the money so you can get the benefit of having one by purchasing a decent TV? It's getting pretty cheap for a decent TV now especially if you don't need/want a really big one.
 
The Caveman said:
But... If you spend the money on a PS3 or similar why won't you spend the money so you can get the benefit of having one by purchasing a decent TV? It's getting pretty cheap for a decent TV now especially if you don't need/want a really big one.
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Because some people don't have enough money to get both, so they see it as, buy the one that can work on the tv they have now, buy the other later.
 
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