How important is resolution to you?

[attaboy]

When I first saw the Xbox 360 in HD, I was blown away by how sharp the image was. It was a thing of beauty. I think the first game I saw was Gears of War 1. I did some some games that looked blurry despite being in HD like Bulletwitch so I knew there something different about it. Examples like that were extremely rare, though. Truth is, if websites and magazines didn't tell me I was looking at 1080p or 60fps, I would never have known or cared. Because I'm told that I'm looking at the emperor's new clothes, I believe he's not naked. I got PS3 games like Wipeout HD Fury or Wind Waker for the Wii U and I was expecting to be blown away but I wasn't. Not even a little bit.

If this or any other site didn't say "1080p!" or "60FPS!" nothing but the most hardcore of us would ever notice or care. As long as a game doesn't run like Perfect Dark on N64, a smooth framerate and a sharp picture would have been more than enough. Most of our graphics kings from the 7th gen weren't anywhere near native 720p and we didn't care at all. Now we are struggling to justify how much better our 8th gen consoles are and focusing so much on this one feature. And the thing is, many of us have NEVER played a game in that resolution or have TVs too small to make a difference and we're hyping it up.

You know who you are.