Rickhunter7

I just recently heard some news about Capcom declaring that they don't have enough money to make a port of SF4 to the next gen consoles. Considering that Nintendo just "rescued" the Bayonetta franchise (which I'm really happy about) Wouldn't it be a good idea if Nintendo rescued that franchise as well to make it an exclusive?

You may argue that this particular game has been played to death and there's no point in porting it any more, you're probably right. But then Nintendo could sponsor the next iteration in the franchise to make it an exclusive, just the way it happened with Bayonetta.

I have to admit that this is probably a bad idea, but I want to hear your opinions anyway.

Cheers.

Hello.

Reading many posts related to graphics I've noticed that some people have trouble grasping the concept of native resolution and upscaling. Because of this I want to propose an experiment that can make these concepts clear to anyone. This experiment can easily be done if you gather all the elements, hell you don't even need to gather the elements, you just need to do the steps in order. Without further ado, here it is:

Elements you need to get:

* A high definition TV, preferably full HD (1080p)

* A DVD player (a normal one, not the newer ones that come with an hdmi port)

* A Blu Ray player

* A movie in DVD and a movie in Blu Ray, preferably the movies should be the computer animation kind like Shrek or Cars, it is also better if both movies are the same.

Step 1: Hook up the DVD player and play the DVD movie. Notice how there is an important amount of "jaggedness" around the edges of objects, for example, in the Lion King movie you can see that the whiskers of the lions don't look completely curved but they have "steps" instead. This is because the DVD has a native resolution of 480p, the same definition that the original Xbox, the Ps2 and the Wii have.

Step2: Hook up the Blu Ray player and put the DVD movie in. Notice a difference? this time there is still some "jaggedness" but it may look blurry or softened. It should look a bit better in general. This is because the Blu Ray player is upscaling the movie's native resolution of 480p to 1080p. This is done by using all those extra pixels to "fill in" and soften those "steps" that you would otherwise see from a normal DVD player.

Step 3: Finally put the Blu Ray movie in the Blu Ray player (where else?) and marvel at the difference. If you are actually playing the same movie in both DVD and Blu Ray you will immediately notice how the Blu Ray looks much sharper and the image is much clearer and crisp. This is because the movie in the Blu Ray disc is in native 1080p, there is no upscaling involved!

I hope this is useful to illustrate what exactly "native" and "upscaling" mean.

Hi.

Bayonetta 2 is a game I'm really excited about and just recently I heard that it will be running at 1080p 60fps on the Wii U. Do you know this to be true? because if it is true I will be 400% more hyped that I already am, which is a lot.