The 360 already has lots of games that natively render at 1920x1080. They will automatically become "1080P" the second MS puts out their dashboard update. You see, developers don't specify "1080i" or "1080p" when making a game, they specify a framebuffer size to natively render the game at, and the video scaler determines what goes out the video port. If the user has selected 1080i and the game only supports 1280x720 (again, there is no "I" or "P" as far as the game is concerned), the scaler takes care of that. Now in theory the developer could only ever support a 1920x1080 framebuffer the scaler would scale it down to 720P or 480i or whatever, but that is unlikely.

Some games that already support "1080P" (just looking at games near my desk)

Call of Duty 2
Dead or Alive 4
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Many (perhaps most) Xbox Live Arcade titles support 1920x1080. They also support 4:3 High-def modes via the VGA output which is not surprising since many XBLA games have PC origins and their developers are used to supporting a variety of resolutions.

I'd guess that Virtual Tennis 3 for the 360 will also since it is much easier to get 1920x1080 to run at an acceptable rate on the 360 than on the PS3. I know because I make cross platform console games for a living and have done next gen games. If you look in the GT4 and Lair game shots (not the pre-rendered video stills, but the actual in-game shots with the HUD) you'll see a lot of aliasing. The PS3 doesn't have a nearly-free anti-aliasing solution like the 360 (anti-aliasing is mandatory on the 360, btw), so you'll not likely see anti-aliasing any PS3 1080 games except maybe some their Mahjong titles. Given that 1280x720 with anti-aliasing looks as good if not better (engineers love to argue this point) than 1920x1080 without, if anti-aliasing is not an option (and it is horribly expensive on the PS3's RSX), they will go for 1280x720 since you get back more precious VRAM. For me, "1080P" with regards to PS3 games.

An email response from Bethesda says the Oblivion will be 1080p once the update is released and that the original poster was correct. The game was made rendered in 1920x1080.

funny IGN thinks other wise..

how does rendering sequence work?? power processor? video card? ram bus speeds?? if the game cant even be made available on the xbox360.. wouddnt it mean tat the ps3 gives a more raw processing power? so in short. how can a xbox360 beat a ps3 in rendering.. esp in 1080p?? and didn u know whn thy launched the xbox360 it was said it could only go as high as 1080i... now only after some software updates could it reach 1080p.. correct me if i am wrong. 

how can u say that the availability of the 1080p dispay is wat restricted xbox360 frm saying is supports the 1080p.. thn how did ps3 ADVERTISE tat it could support it thn!??!! tats a very ridiculous statement to make. 

thn how did ps3 ADVERTISE tat it could support it thn!??!!

You do claim that 360 will do better 1080p rendering than PS3. See the thread's title. 

If the said come before 17 November, XBox 360 will beat PS3 to render games at 1080p.

  dude,g5sim started the thread,not ikanayam...
you're addressing the wrong person  

LOL, u have no real proof that certain games on the Xbox360 was actually rendered at 1080p in the framebuffer at all. In fact some games are actually rendered at even less than 720p which are then scaled to 720p, PGR3 is one such example coz the aliasing is abit obvious compared to other games. Most games however are rendered at 720p in the framebuffer. 

That can't hardly be taken as proof unless u have a more concrete evidence. 

1. Xb360 games don't use HD-DVD.
2. Compression is always used these days unless the developer is a retard. It maximizes bandwidth and reduces data transfer times. Also you can pack in much higher quality compressed data in the same space as you could uncompressed.
3. I'm waiting alright. I've been waiting for a year. But i know enough to not expect miracles.
4. You don't know what you are talking about at all.

we're talking bout the media n games but now you're talking bout the movies which is a different topic instead. Are u sure u know what you're talking about?

sendiri tak tahu cakap pasal aper..  

As expected, the Blu-ray player built into the PS3 will support both Dolby TrueHD as well as Dolby Digital. For games, the console will support interactive Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

we're talking bout the media n games but now you're talking bout the movies which is a different topic instead. Are u sure u know what you're talking about?

For years compression has been required in video games and for anyone with any basic knowledge of computers will be able to understand why. As we know with video game consoles the games are stored on optical disc media. Now what exactly is optical disc media? Fancy talk for CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray.

Play oblivion until no time to play with the wife LOL

I've tried the 1080p mode, but it displayed awkward aspect ratio. Well, that's to be expected since I'm using normal 4:3 ratio monitor that doesn't officially  support 1080p  mode