WiiU - Lots of new Info - Same poor result. Why Nintendo Direct just confirms my fears.

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Hynad said:

That being said, I wasn't talking about next gen consoles per-se. Just the nonsense you mentioned about resolution. Which I already addressed in one of my earlier post. You mentioned 2k resolution into the mix. 2K is so close to 1080p (2048 × 1152 compared to 1920x1980) that mentioning it as a likely future new standard is silly at best. 4K is definitely going to be the next evolution. But even until it becomes the standard, 1080p still hasn't been maxed by console, and even PCs barely manage to take full advantage of it, let alone any higher resolution. GPUs are still going to evolve, get faster, capable of rendering more per frames, etc, even if the resolution remains at 1080p. 

Hey, go play Call of Duty 3 in 1080p. Then put Skyrim, Witcher 2 or Crysis 2 at that same resolution. If this doesn't give you the big picture, I don't know what will.

True, there will be some improvements, but I'm currently playing recently released games on my gaming PC rig, which was built in mid 2011, and while the graphics are good, with excellent hardware, the imrpovements aren't dramatic over the best-looking 360/PS3 game. Neither Sony nor MS will go towards the high end of GPUs, due to costs, so at best, they'll be on par with my PC's graphic card, and I'm rolling with 16 GB ram inside, and 6 cores at 3.2 ghz/core, and 1Gb ram on my vid card. So even if the specs are comparable to my current PC, there's not going to be a "Oh my God this looks sooo much better" response between current gen and Sony/MS next gen machines, nowhere close to the jump from SD to HD.

The point is, it's going to require both Sony and MS to move in a different direction to make the sale this time around.