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Nuts, Bolts, and Tiny Text

If you don't have an HDTV, you might want to try out that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts demo before buying it...

Bottles here uses his magnificant specs to read all that teensy text.
Bottles here uses his magnificant specs to read all that teensy text.
There hasn't been a lot of talk lately about playing Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games on standard-definition televisions. I sort of assumed that we had all finally joined up with the future and gone HD. But there's still a segment of SD players out there, and they're not too happy with Rare's demo for Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.

The game contains some pretty tiny text, text that becomes unreadably blurry on some older sets. Now, CVG has word from a Rare community manager stating that the issue won't be corrected in the final product.

"Unfortunately, this is an issue that doesn't look like it will get changed. I don't want to bore you with the technical side of things (I really don't understand it all myself), but the long and the short of it is that the text you see in the demo will be the same as that which you find in the retail version of the game."

The Rare rep, George Kelion, went on to claim that it would be "too expensive in terms of time, resources, and money" to correct the issue for SD users. I wonder if that means that the percentage of Xbox 360 owners using SD sets has shrunk to an insignificant number, or if the fix would be so challenging that it wouldn't be a good use of Rare's time. Either way, you television dinosaurs had better download that demo and check it out if you're thinking about investing in the final game when it releases later this month.
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