Capcom Oversight Leaves SDTV Owners Out of the Picture

According to numerous frantic posts over at the Capcom BBS, there are quite a few very disappointed XBOX 360 owners stuck with Capcom games that were only tested on HDTVs. For whatever reason Capcom failed to test the game on standard definition television sets (like the ones some of us poor people are still stuck with) before releasing it for sale.

The result, for unfortunate SDTV owners, is a game that looks sub-par and presents completely unreadable in-game text. In a game that has no dialogue, like this one, players are stuck squinting, guessing or lip reading in order to follow the story of the game.

As you can see in the above screenshot, the text is completely illegible, making for some interesting gameplay to say the least. Some posts claim that non-HD TVs with widescreens are somewhat better at displaying the text, but most everyone seems to agree that without a true HD set you will not get the true next-gen experience that you paid for.

According to numerous frantic posts over at the Capcom BBS, there are quite a few very disappointed XBOX 360 owners stuck with Capcom games that were only tested on HDTVs. For whatever reason Capcom failed to test the game on standard definition television sets (like the ones some of us poor people are still stuck with) before releasing it for sale.

The result, for unfortunate SDTV owners, is a game that looks sub-par and presents completely unreadable in-game text. In a game that has no dialogue, like this one, players are stuck squinting, guessing or lip reading in order to follow the story of the game.

As you can see in the above screenshot, the text is completely illegible, making for some interesting gameplay to say the least. Some posts claim that non-HD TVs with widescreens are somewhat better at displaying the text, but most everyone seems to agree that without a true HD set you will not get the true next-gen experience that you paid for.