Assassin's Creed Unity May Run At 720p On The PS4

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Arkaign said:

Hell, I still enjoy games that are 240p :P

The point is that we don't have high powered (somewhat debatable, but in the context of the boost over 7th gen, they are high powered) consoles just to repeat sub-HD resolutions in 8th gen, with 1080p large displays being common AND many examples of gorgeous 1080p games appearing.

If the consoles are clearly powerful enough to render VERY beautiful games in 1080P, then the only reason for sub-1080 is : laziness and/or cross-gen engines and/or politics.

The actual quality of the gameplay is immaterial to the problem with continuing to churn out upscaled games at this date and time. It's already proven that with the right engine and right coding, it's more than possible, it's AWESOME.

A bad game in 1080P (or even 4K surround!) is still a bad game.

A great game in 900P is still a great game.

A great game in 1080P is just that extra cherry on top that should be the standard moving forward.

As cross-gen dies off, and more teams show how it's done, 1080P will be more and more common, until non-1080 games will stick out like a sore thumb.

We can debate whether or not XBO will get there, but I honestly think it will be done, albeit with lowered AA and perhaps LOD/Shadows/AO/AF depending on the context of the situation. The lower ROP/Shaders/Memory Bandwidth is unpatchable and a 'hard' limitation. EVEN after taking that all into account, 1080p games well coded on the substantively weaker XBO should still look beautiful on XBO.

The problem is that they aren't really high-powered. A GPU equivalent to a 7850 is mid-power, not to mention a CPU much weaker than any intel CPU.

People have unnatural expectations. Maybe if the consoles were priced similarly to last gen ($499/599), you would have a point where the devs need to be held accountable for achieving a basic resolution. That isn't the case here. The consoles are essentially budget PCs. You can't expect them to consistently hit 1080p/60fps along with offering some insanely good visuals, when gaming PCs with the same specs have trouble doing so on some last gen games.

Optomization will fix a lot of those issues, but there is no secret sauce that will make either console much more powerful to play every game at the max. Software can only take you so far before hardware becomes a bottleneck.