PlayStation 3: chasing the 1080p dream, part two – revisiting WipEout HD, Pixel Junk and many more

Welcome to the second instalment of PlayStation 3: chasing the 1080p dream. This is DF Retro’s most expansive project yet, spanning an entire console generation, with John Linneman looking to track full HD support for Sony’s eighth generation machine including some of the best – and the worst – titles for the system. In the first episode, we tracked the PS3’s beginnings, why Sony targeted 1080p in its marketing and what the final games looked like in the first couple of years of the console’s life cycle. This second part continues into the PS3’s ‘difficult’ period, where first-party triple-A juggernauts were thin on the ground with the ‘Triple’ still struggled to compete in them multi-platform arena up against Xbox 360. As for 1080p gaming… we bore witness to one unmitigated triumph, but elsewhere, the full HD picture wasn’t quite as crystal clear as we might have hoped.

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