Random PS3 Resolution Question

Solid Snake · 11-12-2016, 08:13 AM

So I have a 32 inch Vizio 1080p TV that presumably can also display in the 720p format. On PS4, my 1080p games look just fine and dandy. Witcher 3 on my PS4 looks about what I'd expect it to look, compared to other folk's video uploads of the PS4 version of Witcher 3.

...For some reason, that isn't true with my PS3, and I've now tested two different PS3 units (a Slim and a Super Slim) with the TV. In both cases, the resolution is...blurry? Static images look just fine but textures during gameplay look bad compared to uploaded videos of PS3 footage on, say, Youtube. My TV presumably has 720p as an option, and I've set it to that; I've also toyed a bit with both my PS3 and TV's video output options but I just can't figure it out.

At first I sort of thought it was just a nostalgia thing, like maybe I remembered the PS3's graphics as being stronger than they really were, and maybe now that I've gotten used to PS4 gaming I was having a hard time going back to older titles. But, again, uploaded PS3 footage on Youtube looks a fair deal more crisp. And, given that I've replicated these results with two separate PS3s, I'm inclined to think that it's a separate issue entirely...but my Vizio 2014 TV was ranked tops of all 32 inch TVs on the market for video game visual fidelity and even my PS3's output looks phenomenal when I'm using it for, say, Netflix.

Anyone here have any ideas?

11-12-2016, 08:13 AM	#1
Solid Snake Erotic Esquire Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,563	Random PS3 Resolution Question So I have a 32 inch Vizio 1080p TV that presumably can also display in the 720p format. On PS4, my 1080p games look just fine and dandy. Witcher 3 on my PS4 looks about what I'd expect it to look, compared to other folk's video uploads of the PS4 version of Witcher 3. ...For some reason, that isn't true with my PS3, and I've now tested two different PS3 units (a Slim and a Super Slim) with the TV. In both cases, the resolution is...blurry? Static images look just fine but textures during gameplay look bad compared to uploaded videos of PS3 footage on, say, Youtube. My TV presumably has 720p as an option, and I've set it to that; I've also toyed a bit with both my PS3 and TV's video output options but I just can't figure it out. At first I sort of thought it was just a nostalgia thing, like maybe I remembered the PS3's graphics as being stronger than they really were, and maybe now that I've gotten used to PS4 gaming I was having a hard time going back to older titles. But, again, uploaded PS3 footage on Youtube looks a fair deal more crisp. And, given that I've replicated these results with two separate PS3s, I'm inclined to think that it's a separate issue entirely...but my Vizio 2014 TV was ranked tops of all 32 inch TVs on the market for video game visual fidelity and even my PS3's output looks phenomenal when I'm using it for, say, Netflix. Anyone here have any ideas? __________________ *WARNING:* Snek's all up in this thread. Be prepared to read massive walls of text.