1080P Content Planned for PlayStation 3

At a time when HD Video display pessimists' exclaim to consumer news reporters that there is little (content) reason to purchase 1080P TVs over 720P sets, Sony Computer Entertainment America showed off several video games in progress which boast 1080P graphics.

SCEA hosted hundreds of game developers, managers and artists for Sony's PlayStation "gamers days" in San Diego this week.

The 1080P imagery shown for PS3 is stunning, and yet of all the game sequences shown, few seem to be approaching the full potential performance limits of the PS3 console's eight internal CELL Processors for computational rendering. The 1080P content flows at frame rates up to 60 fps; displayable on most new 1080P capable HDTV sets and tuner-less displays.

The next frontier - tapping the PS3's hardware in order to take advantage of expanded color spaces under hdmi 1.3. Games using very wide dynamic range color and expanded color have yet to be shown outside of Sony and Nvidia technology demonstration sequences.

Sony's SCEA CEO & President Jack Tretton proclaimed the console "is just at the start of what should be a ten year cycle." Indeed, over 200 Million PS1's have been sold, and he PS2 – introduced almost eight years ago this Fall -– remains the top selling consumer video game platform today with over 120 million sold worldwide. PS3 is expected to follow the path of PS1 and PS2.