I thought i'd bring up a problem that many PS3 owners, including myself, have with the PS3 and our HDTV'S. You see my tv is 1080i only, this means that I can't play a LOT of games in HD on my PS3 because they're 720. The PS3 lacks an internal scaler that would allow folks like me to play games in HD on my set, so its up to the developers. I know for a fact that Naughty Dog included 1080 support in Uncharted because of the gamers posting in the "dev boards" I myself have posted in the Killzone 2 dev boards about this very issue. I want to keep this short because you can find everything you need to know here.
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&message.id=1543717#M1543717
This board is a great resource for gamers in this particular pickle. Included is "the list" of games that do/don't support 1080 as well as how to contact the developers. So if you are one of these people please join us, let Sony know that this is a problem they need to fix, that it won't go away no matter how hard they try.
*FYI, Sony had promised to fix this problem, but has done jack so far*
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/21/sony-begrudgingly-promises-fix-for-ps3-720p-output-issues/
SNK and PLAION have announced the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System+. Launches November 12th, 2026.
Sadly when i try to checkout, it wont let me select United States. their site thinks i'm in another zone for some weird reason.
edit... it was my office internet being the issue. i did it on my phone through cellular and it worked. Got me a white one.
it lets me order from Canada.. only charges me $20 for shipping too.
That being said. Spending $533 (CDN) on the white unit for it to primarily just sit and collect dust would be a little foolish.
It's an awesome idea though.
I just had to... I already have an AES with a multi-cart. But this thing was just too good to pass up. Especially since the wireless controller works on regular AES and the game cart does as well. Plus it comes with a matching white memory card.
@darthv72 - I'm not a collector of games for these retro consoles (have the Analogue Super NT (SNES), Mega SG (Genesis) and 3D (N64). But I just use everdrives with each system as I only have a couple of SNES carts and only 2 N64 carts. A lot of these games are stupidly expensive so I'd rather just invest in a single everdrive and then I can just run every game. However the everdrive that works with the AES is $600! Crazy stuff.
^^...that is why i got one of those 160-1 carts off aliexpress. it works great. and yeah i use everdrives and ODE where available. i do like to buy PS4/5 games and Switch stuff though. I dont buy much in the way of physical XB anymore, I just use GPU to play what I like.
Had no idea SNK were still around tbh. What have they been working on for the last decade or two?
This brings back memories. I remember when I first saw Neo Geo back in 1991, it was $649.99 at launch, which would equal $1,575 today. I was thinking holy shit who is going to buy that when SNES was $200 and Genesis was $189. Well I was wrong, 😂 it sold for 14 yrs. My ringtone is the Neo Geo jingle https://www.youtube.com/wat... 😁
Engineer Hugh is sent from Earth to investigate a malfunctioning research station and meets a young android who helps him fend off murderous mechs.
Replaced is a gripping and gorgeous 2.5D action platformer, even though this AI-based adventure could do with a system update to completely iron out the bugs.
Naughty Dog paid a lot of attention to the Official Playstation Blog.Thats the best place to get things across to Sony and the developers that post there.
sorry you bought a crappy tv, d00d
so this is a problem only on 4:3 480p/1080i tv right?
Try buying a TV made in the last decade, or just don't skimp and get old CRT HDTVs. Even then, if you shop around like any intelligent person would do, you can find CRTs that support/accept 720p, whether they display it natively, or scale it to 1080i internally.
You made a bad decision, deal with it, and quit crying. The game do 720p, your TV doesn't. Don't like it, go buy a 360.
1) You TV manufacturer - Selling a TV w/o a scaler that can take a 720 signal and upconvert to 1080 is a crappy deal by THEM. They probably left the scaler out to save money and sell the unit at a lower price... aka just like SONY.
2) You - It's your fault because you either didn't research the TV enough to know it didn't support 720. Or you are an early adopter. Early adopters take a risk. You knew that going in. Just like buying a HDDVD or Blu Ray player before the format war is decided. If you lay your money on the table in a poker game and lose it, that's your fault. You knew that was a chance and you accepted that and put your money down anyway.
3) Sony - They are to blame as well. They left the scaler out to probably save money on production costs. And early on they were charging $600 and still taking a loss on each PS3. So I can understand it.
You could try buying a external scaler ( very expensive last I checked), but hey you are probably an early adopter and you have the cash to spare :).
I just thought this blog post tries to lay all the blame at one persons feet when there are plenty of people to blame for it. Your TV company didn't put in a scaler and neither did Sony, but you are only yelling at Sony.
PS: I hope Sony fixes it for you.