To those who are saying the difference in lighting is the issue.  It's not the difference in lighting.  Lighting will change the hue of colors, but textures will still be noticeable whether  they're better or worse.  To point it out, I've decided to post a 1080p image of the retail version in daylight and then a darker image of the 2013.  Apparently the version with better lighting should look more appealing right?  The better textures should stand out? 

Retail version on the top, 2013 image at the bottom.  Retail version has brighter lightning, but you can clearly tell that the fabric on clothing on the other version is a bit better.  One noticeable thing I want to point out is that if you check out Delsin's undershirt on the image in the top, the seams and texture between them look flat.  On the bottom picture, those same seams aren't a single texture and each one has a different depth.  The clothing looks more real in the bottom image than the top.  Does Infamous Second Son's graphics still look great?  Yeah.  Looks amazing.  Does it look as good as the 2013 version, no, and it's noticeable that it doesn't, regardless how marginable a difference it is.

na...... thats not the point, the point is to release games that look better and play better. look at titanfall. not 1080p but rumored to be 30fps on the 360.

Also a steady pace of 720p is an upgrade over the previous generation as they didn't run that res on most games with a lot of content.

I don't see a problem with having 1080p but to stop adding to a game when the "what we can do in 1080p" limit arives. It would be a bad idea to stop adding to the game at that point.

As for those infamous pics, I don't know or care too much about that story but the e3 screen shots look like animated cinema and the actual screens looks like video games....

Top one was posted in 2014 so I'm assuming it's what the retail version would be.  Bottom one was in 2013.

Btw, when I pointed out the difference in the seams of clothing, that isn't a difference of a lighting effect.  So your douchebag effects of lighting comment wasn't needed, but that's just my opinion.

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-Mr Khan

I got the image from a site that listed them as new pictures in 2014 so if it wasn't then that's my mistake for using that site.  However there is a noticeable difference in the seams from the image I showed to the other.  The other image was posted September 2013 though so if the other image is from E3 then it's just a newer image and that could be the reason.  So basically the newer version looked better than the older version, and the older version and newer version both look better than the comparison picture you posted.

Your comment was a douchebag comment because I was pointing out features that lighting would not have an effect on and right afterwards you posted it.

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Btw, where are retail images of Second Son other than the comparison ones.

Even though the OP has an old image, do we really care if it were to look slightly worst? It is not like we just stand in a game and admire the scenery.

It doesn't look slightly worse though. We've had 2 threads on this site alone debunking this myth.

@OP the pictures you're using for retail are horribly compessed and probably screencapped from a youtube video. Look at the direct caps posted in this very thread.

Infamous second son was always 1080p. There was no downgrade in quality. The differnces in lighting created weird effects. Resolution tends to create the most noticable difference in quality. It's best to try and acheive 1080p. Also, Ryse looked noticably worse after the downgrade. The reason they lowered res was because they were barely able to pull of  30fps. Also, if you don't believe me about the whole non-downgrade part with infamous.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/03/15/infamous-second-son-pictures-show-that-there-was-no-downgrade-since-e3-2013/

It looked worse because the lighting from the recent screens was light bathed due to the position of the sun. Some of the worst misinformation I've seen in a thread in a long time. 

Ohh look another fail thread, if your gonna complain about something research it a bit maybe. Come on BS shots compressed crap and youcrap quality.

1080p looks better if you tv is worth a damn, its still devs choice what ever is best for the game but usually if they can they should aim for 1080p.

There's nothing in the entire thing you quoted saying Infamous Second Son is lower resolution.  It's stating that that with a lower resolution, graphical effects and textures could be introduced to make it look better than it would at 1080p.