| SvennoJ said: It won't cost Sony anything extra to include 4K support, modern graphics cards are already capable of that resolution and HMDI spec 1.4b (which includes 2160p60) should be finalized at the end of the year. (The ps3 can already output 4K images btw) Maybe GT6 will be able to run in 2560x2160 on ps4. GT4 to GT5 went from 640x540 to 1280x1080, no reason why the same resolution jump can't be done again. 4k tvs will be affordable by the time GT6 comes out... The ps4 is going to be around until 2021 at least. It's not unreasonable to buy a new tv in a 9 year period. How many people had a 1080p tv in 2004? (2 years before the ps3 launch) |
The difference is that 1080p TV's had the benefit of a masive insdustry wide push for HD content. We had a new movie medium, the switcch from analog to digital TV, the most from CRT to LCD based TV's, the jump to HD consoles...and it all cost several hundre billion dollars to pull off. And even then we re still mostly a 1080i or 720p content industry.
4k does not have those factors coming along with it. So the cost of the TV's will not come down as quickly.
4K also requirees a massive TV just to even see a difference above 1080p. Anything below 60" will have no real discernable increase in picture quality over 1080 to the average viewer. And most TV's purchased over the last several years have been in the 40" range.
When you stop and think about it all in business terms, 4K will not make much sense for a very long time.
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