| abroZ said: I don't see a big difference in this comparison video though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsQJVxaFfQw And the graphics look 'ok' certainly not mind-blowing. |
You won't see any difference on any compressed media because the crush blacks and sharpening are designed specifically to make the images better on any compressed media.
I thought at first like many people that X1 looked better on videos or screenshots, until I sam them in uncompressed png in native 1080p I understood the lie.
Please open those 2 screenshots in a native 1080p (or higher resolution) screen (that's really important) and tell us again if you can't see any difference. The main problem here is not really the resolution but the nasty sharpening combined with the crush blacks:
http://cdn1.sbnation.com/assets/3647843/AC4-ONE-RIGHT.png
http://cdn0.sbnation.com/assets/3647859/AC4-PS4.png
There it is. Full resolution with 0 compression screenshots. Look specifically to the ship and far away details and how the sharpening destroy lot of details in order to highlight others. Notice the bad grainy look on every textures on X1 (it may be patched later, see BF4 on X1 without any sharpening now) compared to the natural one on PS4. And I just put those in link because otherwise the (probable) downsampling on some browsers is biasing the comparison. Why there is still no AC4 DF face-off? look at the 2 previous images and you'll know why: the sharpen and crush black completely wreck the beautiful AC4 scenery. Well in this game it is worse than in others I think. On BF4 it was not so bad but it is better now on X1 without it anyway.
Here's COD; if you stay far away from the screen, the sharpen filter gives you the illusion that the 720p is great, but when you get closer...illusions get smashed in noise, grainy look and destroyed details.
http://cdn1.sbnation.com/assets/3647931/COD-ONE-RIGHT.png
http://cdn3.sbnation.com/assets/3647995/COD-PS4.png
If found those shots on this great comparison article, there is also BF4 and EA sports games:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5155726/next-gen-supplementary-piece
