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HappySqurriel on 23 August 2012
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pezus said:
DirtyP2002 said:
I doubt the mass market is ready for another new TV after HD Ready, Full HD, 3D. Of course you need a new BluRay Player to watch a handful of movies that support this resolution, and a new HDMI cable as well.

All of that for something 99% of the people can't see an improvement. Of course the PS4 would have at least a $600 price tag and we all know how that worked out. Sony can't afford to lose 2-3 billion USD with one single product in times like these.

Based on? I'm pretty sure you have it in reverse. Have you ever laid eyes on such a high resolution before on a large TV?

Personally, I wouldn't argue that people can't see the difference but would generally find the trade-off between 720p@30fps and 1080p@60fps unacceptable ...

Using the Wii U as a base system, if you launched a system that could maintain the same quality of graphics as the Wii U can output at 720p@30fps it would probably be released 1 to 2 years later, cost $100 to $200 more, be significantly larger and use far more energy.

At the same time if the hardware is constant you can render far more polygons, with far higher texture detail, with more effects that are more advanced at 720p@30fps than is possible at 1080p@60fps; and there would be a substantial downgrade in graphical quality from rendering at the higher resolution.