[quote name='jdawgg76']Of course box art is notoriously wrong from the xbox on up to current gen, but I was under the impression that Virtua Tennis 3 for the 360 is truly 1080p (not just written on the box art, but actually confirmed to be 1080p). It seems like a handful of other 360 games are as well.[/quote]
I'm pretty sure they're not. New games all pretty much say 1080p, which really means 720p or below, scaled to as high as 1080p. A lot of magazine/media people don't seem to understand the difference, so reported it as being 1080p (heck, the marketing people for these companies probably don't understand the difference).
The 360 is at a big disadvantage for doing higher resolutions, as aside from that 10MB video cache, it's got basically half the system bandwidth of the PS3, and the higher the resolution, the less % of a complete image fits in to the cache (so there's a bigger performance drop off than even just the increase in resolution would indicate). If I'm remembering correctly, even at 720p with AA turned on an entire frame can't fit into the cache at once. At 1080p it would be less than half a single frame. That's why there's actually a minority of games that renders at LESS than 720p.
(Also the 360 MAY have half the ROPs of the PS3, although I don't think the PS3's ROPs have ever been publicly disclosed-and even if the PS3 has 16, it's still not REALLY up to doing 1080p in the vast majority of games.)
[quote name='Snake2715']F it get the 40gb model at Target right now with the $40 gift card. If you need a bigger drive they are cheap as heck, and it doesn't void the warranty.
The $40 gift card at target is the best deal in a while, and probably the best deal post Xmas.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, except I wouldn't want a 40GB model since there's no backwards compatibility. (Plus I haven't actually seen a Playstation 3 in stock for months now. I guess I'll have to wait/hope they replace the 80GB model with something else withi BC.)