Consoles would benefit at running games 720p instead of 1080p.

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Mr Puggsly said:

leo-j said:
The fact a game like the order is 1080p natively, and a game like ac unity is running at 1080p is all incredible

Its fantastic, but comes in sacrfice of the frame rate.

Also, The Order is 1920x800p for even more polished visuals while maintaining 30 fps. It should be noted that's a resolution with a pixel count slightly above 900p.

The Order going for 1920x800 was a genuine design choice (those movie bars). Previously i thought that claim was bullshit, but when they announced they were pushing 4xMSAA they somewhat confirms it as true. 1920 x 800 + 4xMSAA is about the resource equivalent of 1920 x 1080 + standard post processing.

They also extended the horizontal render view to make up for what is lost is the bars. They seem to be doing every they can to nullify the benefit of a lower pixel count

You could argue they did it to get better IQ, but that would be a pretty small gain unless you wanted that odd screen design in the first place.