You Noob thats what the CELLs are for they do the donkey work and use the GPU just to pump out the final image - You obviously dont know what your talking about when it comes to non-Pc standard architecture. And if Crytek coded it like your saying then no wonder theres problems.
The Cell can help out with lots of things, but it can't do the brunt of the graphical work like you are implying. Sony had originally intended to go the route of the Cell doing almost everything except fill, but then changed that plan and had to quickly put in a GPU.
Not without frying the GPU. The reason why the res is not full 720p is because the GPU was already operating at max with all the visual stuff it had to do, so they had to cut down the amount of information the GPU had to process. If you just increase the resolution, you will now be forcing the GPU to do more work than it is supposed to do. Then the GPU fries and your PS3 is now worthless. Enjoy spending $300 on a new one.
Rofl! *** Jailbreak User playing the Game with 40 Fps and
720p! Its only a line change in the ini. U want tell us Crytek cant do it?

720p ps3 ini: http://psx-scene.com/forums/788115-post22.html
I meant increasing the resolution while leaving all the other settings intact. If they altered some of the settings like in that link, then yes, they can get 720p with a descent framerate. But then they run into a problem. If they turn down the graphics then some people will get pissed that the game is no longer as good looking as it was promised to be.
And I really don't see Crytek putting in the effort to make a patch that will add a graphics options menu to the console versions.