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starworld on 23 February 2014
Goatseye said:
Rafux said:
Goatseye said:
Rafux said:
I think is more about Xbone costing 100$ more than PS4 while being inferior hardware and multiplats are now better on Sony's console.

I'd rather pay $100 more dollars to play Halo, Forza, Gears and Titanfall. Your perceptionof better is very relative/personal and you should keep that in mind.

I said inferior hardware. I never said PS4 is better than xbone I did said MULTIPLATS are better (forgot to said tech/resolution wise)

Does it have better hardware? The answer is yes as multiplats and developers have shown.

Ok... Ryse is still the best looking game on the next gen consoles and it is on the inferior hardware.

and ryse would be 1080p and run at a solid 30fps on ps4, instead we get 900p running at an average 22 fps sceond on X1 :(



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Zekkyou on 23 February 2014
Mr Puggsly said:
Resolution matters in the sense better is preferable. But the difference between 720p and 1080p is not significant enough to the average consumer.

We've never seen the masses move to a platform solely for graphics. PS4 is successful for getting the price right and having strong software.

While the difference between 1080p and 720p is perhaps not big enough to largely sway the average consumer, when coupled with the cheaper price it becomes a big deal. Being $100 less than the X1 helps Sony sell PS4's, being $100 cheaper and giving a "better experience" not only adds value to the PS4, it detracts value from the X1.

Regardless, i'd always put in-game fidelity ahead of resolution. I'd say give it a couple of years and the resolution of 1st party games on both will be about the same. I'd rather 900p/30fps with extra in-game polish than 1080p/30-60fps. Imagine how much nicer Killzone:SF would have looked :/



Mr Puggsly on 23 February 2014
Danman27 said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Danman27 said:
I think the difference between 1080p and 720p is incredibly easy to see.


On a massive screen, yeah.

Side by side, yeah.

But could the average person give a definite answer on a screen being 720p, 900p, or 1080p? No.

I have a 32 inch 720p TV and a 32 inch 1080p. I could easily fool people into believing my 720p screen is 1080p.

I could tell the difference between 720p from 1080p screenshot from across the room on my 23 inch screen. It just looks blurrier. I don't know how else to explain it. I'm not saying everyone can that easily, and I acknowledge that I spend a lot of time in front of a monitor, so I'm probably better than most. But if I can do that, I think most people should at least be able to tell the difference under realistic conditions. 

Stretched pictures aren't the same as games in motion.

I have an Xbox One and I've playing games that vary from 720p, 900p, and 1080p. I couldn't give a definite answer what resolution a game is by just looking at it, I can only presume.

If a game has filtering to hide jaggies, it become even more difficult to give a definite answer.



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starworld on 23 February 2014
Goatseye said:
X1Gates said:
Of course resolution matters, the only people who say otherwise own a console that is no capable of hitting 1080p without sacrificing fps or something else. So they proceed to tell themselves that resolution doesn't matter or that gameplay>resolution, basically anything that would help them sleep at night.

Check GTA sales over any other game that presents better graphics than the latter.

GTA stomps anything because of the GAMEPLAY.

No GAMER in the world would trade GTA 5 for maxed out Crysis.

Resolution is talked here because their console haven't presented much games to rival the competition.

 on consoles GTAV is one the best looking games easily, it looks amazing for current gen, easily the best looking open world game on current gen consoles and in the top 5 most impresiive games graphically for 360/ps3



FATALITY on 23 February 2014
Goatseye said:
Rafux said:
Goatseye said:
Rafux said:
I think is more about Xbone costing 100$ more than PS4 while being inferior hardware and multiplats are now better on Sony's console.

I'd rather pay $100 more dollars to play Halo, Forza, Gears and Titanfall. Your perceptionof better is very relative/personal and you should keep that in mind.

I said inferior hardware. I never said PS4 is better than xbone I did said MULTIPLATS are better (forgot to said tech/resolution wise)

Does it have better hardware? The answer is yes as multiplats and developers have shown.

Ok... Ryse is still the best looking game on the next gen consoles and it is on the inferior hardware.




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Danman27 on 23 February 2014
Mr Puggsly said:
Danman27 said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Danman27 said:
I think the difference between 1080p and 720p is incredibly easy to see.


On a massive screen, yeah.

Side by side, yeah.

But could the average person give a definite answer on a screen being 720p, 900p, or 1080p? No.

I have a 32 inch 720p TV and a 32 inch 1080p. I could easily fool people into believing my 720p screen is 1080p.

I could tell the difference between 720p from 1080p screenshot from across the room on my 23 inch screen. It just looks blurrier. I don't know how else to explain it. I'm not saying everyone can that easily, and I acknowledge that I spend a lot of time in front of a monitor, so I'm probably better than most. But if I can do that, I think most people should at least be able to tell the difference under realistic conditions. 

Stretched pictures aren't the same as games in motion.

I have an Xbox One and I've playing games that vary from 720p, 900p, and 1080p. I couldn't give a definite answer what resolution a game is by just looking at it, I can only presume.

If a game has filtering to hide jaggies, it become even more difficult to give a definite answer.


I never said that I could just look at an image and say "yeah, that's 1080p." I'm saying that I can easily tell the difference between 720p and 1080p.



oldschoolfool on 23 February 2014

I don't even know what 1080p are any of that stuff means. I don't even have HD,so resolution doesn't matter to me. I have an HD ready 32 inch sanyo t.v.,but I don't actually have HD. I'm sure if I had HD,resolution would matter to me and I'd never go back,but I'm to cheap. I buy all my movies on blu-ray now,so I guess resolution matters to me in that regard,but when it comes to gaming,I'm just all about the gameplay.



Mr Puggsly on 23 February 2014
Zekkyou said:

Regardless, i'd always put in-game fidelity ahead of resolution. I'd say give it a couple of years and the resolution of 1st party games on both will be about the same. I'd rather 900p/30fps with extra in-game polish than 1080p/30-60fps. Imagine how much nicer Killzone:SF would have looked :/

I'd prefer a less nice looking KZ SF and see it running at 60 fps.

Shooters at 60 fps is the bee's knees for me. Even at a lousy 720p.



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alrightiwill on 23 February 2014
Danman27 said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Danman27 said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Danman27 said:
I think the difference between 1080p and 720p is incredibly easy to see.


On a massive screen, yeah.

Side by side, yeah.

But could the average person give a definite answer on a screen being 720p, 900p, or 1080p? No.

I have a 32 inch 720p TV and a 32 inch 1080p. I could easily fool people into believing my 720p screen is 1080p.

I could tell the difference between 720p from 1080p screenshot from across the room on my 23 inch screen. It just looks blurrier. I don't know how else to explain it. I'm not saying everyone can that easily, and I acknowledge that I spend a lot of time in front of a monitor, so I'm probably better than most. But if I can do that, I think most people should at least be able to tell the difference under realistic conditions. 

Stretched pictures aren't the same as games in motion.

I have an Xbox One and I've playing games that vary from 720p, 900p, and 1080p. I couldn't give a definite answer what resolution a game is by just looking at it, I can only presume.

If a game has filtering to hide jaggies, it become even more difficult to give a definite answer.


I never said that I could just look at an image and say "yeah, that's 1080p." I'm saying that I can easily tell the difference between 720p and 1080p.


Out of curiosity, what 720p and 1080p comparison sources have you viewed concurrently to be able to distinguish the difference?



Goatseye on 23 February 2014
starworld said:

 on consoles GTAV is one the best looking games easily, it looks amazing for current gen, easily the best looking open world game on current gen consoles and in the top 5 most impresiive games graphically for 360/ps3

Really???? Have you ever played witcher on 360?