? for Gary King about development...

I'm not an expert, keep that in mind.
They have to redo the screen so that it displays a wider image and then they need to tell the icons on screen (like a speedometer) to be their normal size as widescreen, which is why they appear crunched in 4:3 view. The way they do it is probably through mathematics. I dunno.

 

On the Xbox, not much more is involved than simply setting the resolution to a widescreen resolution, and adjusting your viewport transform so that you don't get distortion (which is really simple).
I can't imagine much more is involved than that on other consoles (assuming the hardware supports widescreen output); however, on consoles with stricter requirements on video memory, the additional framebuffer size might things more difficult for developers, depending on how they want to use the hardware.

 

Check out: http://www.gorillax.com/xboxgames/games.asp
has a list of all of the confirmed games that will support widescreen for the Xbox. There is more than whats on there, but its pretty up to date.
Dean

 

Well, real-time graphics is a very hardware-dependent field, so newer and more powerful hardware generates quite a bit of excitement. And Xbox is very new and very powerful... and it fixes all the annoying things in DirectX, which is really nice, too.