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fallen on 14 October 2013
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curl-6 said:

Neither PS4 nor Xbox One will have a native 1080p baseline.
We went through the same thing back in 2006 with the PS3; in the end, many developers will choose to sacrifice resolution for better effects, materials, textures, etc.
This is why many 360/PS3 games weren't even 720p native. In fact, many high profile games like COD, Crysis 2, Halo 3, Splinter Cell Conviction, Alan Wake, and the PS3 versions of GTA4 and Bioshock weren't.
Many gamers won't even notice the difference between 720p and 1080p, much less 900p and 1080p. So devs will spend the power on things they will notice instead, or just not spend the extra time and money to optimize for 1080p.


Many weren't, but i believe the MAJORITY of games last gen in fact were 720P. Something people forget.

 

That said, there's a diminishing returns issue, and given the low-mid range GPU's in PS4/X1 as well, I expect there to be a whole lot more sub 1080P games next gen than there were sub 720 this gen.

 

Which is fine. Say, 900P, is still a huge improvement over 720P, let alone sub-720. Lets not forget that just because of some new arbitrary standard. We're all playing (at least mostly) on 1080P TV's anyway.

 

It's not like last gen we all had 720P TV's and this gen we all get 1080P ones. No, our TV's are going to stay the same, and we will now get higher res games on them, even if they fall short of 1080.