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Bungie responds to 640p native resolution of Halo 3

Xenctuary | September 29, 2007 | News | XBOX 360 
Bungie unsheathed their Energy Swords yesterday in their Weekly Update, aiming it squarely at the video buffs who spotted that Halo 3 is a few pixels short of "true" high definition. The update explains in detail as to why Halo 3 runs at a native 1152x640 resolution, pointing out that the 80p loss incurred during their hardware optimisation process makes little to no difference to the finished product and that it certainly does not mark the end of the world.
In fact, if you do a comparison shot between the native 1152x640 image and the scaled 1280x720, it's practically impossible to discern the difference. We would ignore it entirely were it not for the internet's propensity for drama where none exists. In fact the reason we haven't mentioned this before in weekly updates, is the simple fact that it would have distracted conversation away from more important aspects of the game, and given tinfoil hats some new gristle to chew on as they catalogued their toenail clippings.

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    Incidnia | September 29, 2007
    I didn't even know 640p was a resolution.
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    Linkin Park Fan | September 29, 2007
    same here. I thought it was only 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p
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      Riku31069 | September 30, 2007
      Count me in. I don't even know that 640p was a resolution.
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        Xenctuary | October 01, 2007
        It represents the amount of vertical pixels.
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    Silver Mirror | September 29, 2007
    I read the article and I think it sounds to me like they didn't want attention drawn to this and are now trying to cover it up with stupid excuses like "We didn't want to subtract from the feeling of Halo 3"

    Bullshit
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      Donnelly | September 29, 2007
      I've never found myself thinking: "Oh, Halo 3 is still a glorious celebration of boyish Sci-Fi violence, but if only the resolution was a wee bit bigger, it could be significantly improved"
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        Big Willie | September 30, 2007
        I agree. I don't even particularly care for Halo that much, but it's still a nice-looking game. It was done to optimize the game.
        smooth running game > extreme HD game
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    FFXFREAK | October 01, 2007
    Burnn Bungie ownt the noobs. Meh, I really don't like Halo and don't care for it but was interesting to hear in it's shortcoming >>.


    ~FFXFREAK

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