X360 : Developers may no longer be bound to 1280x720

[JardeL]

By Black Rock's David Jefferies

Microsoft'a new Resolution

... It’s is for this reason that Microsoft recently retired the TCR insisting on 1280x720. Now we are free to make the trade-off between resolution and image quality as we see fit. ...

[ http://www.develop-online.net/blog/44/Microsofts-new-resolution ] ...

 

[AlNom]

There are some rather erroneous statements in this article regarding LCDs and some of the speculation seems a bit dubious, but anyways. The TCR for the resolution is actually old news and was discussed here.

 

[Pugger]

There loads of games on the 360 that don't adhere to the 720P so called standard. That happeneded on day1.

 

[AlNom]

There loads of games on the 360 that don't adhere to the 720P so called standard. That happeneded on day1.

Day 1 titles were exempt due to the nature of Xenos. Other 3rd-party, non-MS published titles might have been exempt as long is it dealt with the aliasing issue in some way (be it some awful blur for instance).

This apparent dropping of the TCR basically removes the hassling completely.