xbox360 Final Fantasy XI not "HD-Ready"!?

[rabidrabbit]

http://www.the-magicbox.com/gaming.htm

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Square Enix said the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI will be ....

 

[SanGreal]

That is from http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200508/N05.0801.1854.37796.htm

on the very next line after he says its 480p he says it is 720p also

 

[rabidrabbit]

GI: You’re going to support widescreen mode like the PC version. What resolution will that be at? 720p, 1080i?

Tanaka: We will support different settings but the standard we are using now is 480p (progressive scan). We are experimenting with the 1080i but it’s stressful on the video RAM.

GI: So if the standard is 480p, then will we see 720p – the next step up?

Tanaka: We currently have 720p running

True, according to this interview it seems like they are still deciding which resolutions will the xbox360 FFXI support.
They have 480p as the "standard" and testing the 720p. 1080i seems like it won't be there.

How much more stressful 1080i is to the video ram than 720p? As FFXI isn't really that "nextgen graphically complex" does that mean there's little chance on seeing other, more "next genny" games support 1080i either, but opt for 480P and/or 720p (i?)

 

[kyleb]

How can they not have 1080i when the console is designed to scale the output resolution to anything between 480i and 1080i?

 

[one]

Maybe he realized plain porting from PC version didn't work and it's required to add some optimization for xbox 360.

 

[robofunk]

720p gets scaled to 1080i by the xbox video encoder simple as that.