It is rumored that Halo 3 will be able to run at the most advanced HDTV setting, making it the most advanced, and visually beautiful Xbox 360 game, ever.

The Xbox 360's flagship title Halo 3 will support true (not upscaled) 1080p at 60fps, after Microsoft issued an edict to developers Bungie that it must be the most technically advanced game available on the platform.

A source close to a Bungie insider has revealed that whilst Microsoft have always maintained that a resolution of 720p is the 'sweet spot' for Xbox 360 games last year's E3 Expo 'led to a broadening of perspective' at Microsoft. Whilst Sony were scorned in the gaming media for not putting on a good show for the great unwashed, Shane Kim President of Microsoft Game Studios had a representative at the presentation. Shane felt that within 18 months the whole 1080p HDMI issue could lead to a 'perceived generational divide' between the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. After discussions with various bods at Microsoft, Shane Kim made a push to implement 1080p as optional feature of the Xbox 360. The idea being that 720p is still the 'sweet spot' with Xbox 360, and that games would still be developed at 720p. However the PlayStation 3 would then lose its claim to being the only console that can output at 1080p, and thus (in theory) the title of most powerful console. Microsoft have no plans to ask third party developers to use 1080p as standard. But a decision was taken that Halo 3, the console's flagship title must be the most technically advanced game available on the 360.

Deathsythe via playthree.net »