How Xbox Games Look On The 360

Gamespot has a piece looking at how original Xbox titles look on the 360. From the article: "When the game you want actually makes it onto the supported games list, get ready for a little HD treat. The Xbox 360 will run Xbox games in 720p or 1080i. The games will also get a good dose of antialiasing to get rid of "jaggies" or stairstepping effects found on the edges of characters and scenery. This is nothing new for those of you familiar with a PC. Turning up the resolution and enabling antialiasing are the first things you do to improve image quality in PC games. We went ahead and took screen captures of a few Xbox games on both the Xbox and the Xbox 360 to compare how they looked on both systems. Unsurprisingly, the Xbox 360 screen captures look much better. Higher resolutions combined with antialiasing tend to make just about everything prettier."

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My question

[Guppy06]

Is Sony going to follow suit this time with the PlayStation 3? Will PSOne games at least look better?

Sony had the option of doing something similar with the PlayStation 2 (think Bleemcast), but then they were faced with the prospect of PSX games looking just as good as first-generation PS2 games. I suppose Microsoft is venturing out into this because they have the compatability far more restricted than the PSX/PS2 list was.

If my PlayStation library looks better on a PS3, that might make it worth the price of the console (that, and if the memory-card dongle isn't too expensive).

Framerate

[skyman8081]

What TFA did NOT cover was the fact that the framerate drops on occasion with the current emulation on the 360. I've seen this myself, and it was the most noticable when playing Ninjanauts on Backwash. This experience could well be anecdotal, and there could be an update that fixes this. So take this with a grain of salt.