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Hynad on 25 January 2013
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Raze said:
Hynad said:
 

Hum, what about no? Resolution isn't all. Draw distance, polygons on screen, lighting effects (and the number of active light sources), among plenty of other things can still be pushed way beyond what we currently see on the current gen consoles and the Wii U. We see movies like Avatar on our 1080p screens and the graphics of games are nowhere near that level. So yes, things can still get much better than they are now, even if the resolution stays at 1080p for the next decade.

So, maybe instead of a snarky 20-something response, you could try conversing like a human?

The 720/PS4 have been in development for more than 2 years now, which will still be weaker than my Win 7 PC. The graphics are a bit better than HD console equivalents, but it's no WOW factor like PS2 to PS3, etc. It's such a minor improvement that many people might not be convinced to make the jump, just based on graphics alone.  As someone else pointed out, Avatar and all HD movies are all pre-rendered screens, into AVI or quicktime format (I do editing for independent films, so I know this process well). Their extremely expensive computers process this compiling over hours, and in some cases, days. Your 1080p real-time rendering will be a little faste,r but nothing to really see a drastic shift.

Sorry to break it to you, but the future of console gaming is MEH at best, until 2k/4k tvs are the norm. More importantly, the difference between Wii U and its Sony and MS competitors will be quite minor, and it's going to come down to separation by fanboy sects.


Snarky 20-something? Oh, that's cute.

One thing is sure, you don't know the others next-gen console's specs. All we have right now are rumors.

That being said, I wasn't talking about next gen consoles per-se. Just the nonsense you mentioned about resolution. Which I already addressed in one of my earlier post. You mentioned 2k resolution into the mix. 2K is so close to 1080p (2048 × 1152 compared to 1920x1980) that mentioning it as a likely future new standard is silly at best. 4K is definitely going to be the next evolution. But even until it becomes the standard, 1080p still hasn't been maxed by console, and even PCs barely manage to take full advantage of it, let alone any higher resolution. GPUs are still going to evolve, get faster, capable of rendering more per frames, etc, even if the resolution remains at 1080p. 

Hey, go play Call of Duty 3 in 1080p. Then put Skyrim, Witcher 2 or Crysis 2 at that same resolution. If this doesn't give you the big picture, I don't know what will.