hinch said:
I'm not, just wanted a friendly conversation. Then why bring up the comparision picture? A game won't ever look as clear as running on natively on your display. Sure, FXAA doesn't help but its beats the alternative, lower res.. tonnes of jaggies. Oh and the textures in XB1 are not necessarily better, you can thank post processing effects for that. Which just so happens to sharpen details (also comes with extra baggage), is what I wanted to point out. Plus the gamma/contrast is completely off in the XB1 footage (down to DF on that one). And comparing to a mid high/high end PC version is a bit disingenuous. These are $400/500 consoles we're talking about. There are obviously going to be trade offs when the GPU's in them aren't exactly THAT strong to begin with - when compared to whats available on PC. |
Sorry if I sounded harsh. But this particular problem is important to my eyes.
I've being re-watching some old DF face-off of PS3 vs PC of old games and except when there is some really hig res assets on PC (which is in fact rare for multiplats) most of the 600p-ish upscaled anti-aliased PS3 (and X360) images versus PC are not loosing so much details (relatively with a 600p-ish against 1080p fsaa PC) and are basically the same as PC except the jaggies of course. I have even seen equivalent PS4 settings of BF4 on PC (900p upscaled to 1080p, strong FXAA), and there is no "soft blur". At all.
This particular problem is presently drowned in the general fanboys (of every sides) crazyness. But it is not about FXAA, because FXAA doesn't normally touch already soft middle res (yes middle res) textures. Same for upscaling, It should not blur (as much) the whole screen. But a strong Quincunux or shitty upscaler could be the culprit.
Never a console since the age of digital lossless data quality cables did that. The last one (before digital) in my mind was the Pal gamecube which added a strange blurriness compard to their NTSC cousins, and was certainly due to a poor NTSC / PAL upscaler or internal exotic Nintendo-ish strange NTSC/PAL processing. And again I never compared (well not vehemently at least) with the X1 exactly because I don't want my posts to be taken for Microsoft fanboism. That's why I compare with PC or similar PC settings as it should.
