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| BlueFalcon said: But the biggest reason 4K console gaming is more or less gimmicky is the requirement for a very large 4K TV. This article goes into a lot of detail that if you sit at a normal viewing distance of 9-10 feet, you'll need an 84" 4K TV to resolve all the details of 4K. Firstly, that is a very large TV for most apartments/households to fit comfortable. Secondly, such TVs still cost way too much and even in 4-5 years they are unlikely to cost less than $1500. |
Yet you don't need to be able to resolve every detail to enjoy the benefit of a sharper picture. At 9ft from 84", sure you can see all the jaggies and other flaws again. Get a 4K 55" tv and you get a much more enjoyable stable picture. Higher res works better than the best AA, apart from rendering at 4x the resolution, then downscaling. Although if you do that, displaying the results without downscaling will still give a better result.
I still easily see jaggies and temporal aliasing artifacts in 1080p games at 12ft from 52", that's a higher perceived pixel density than 4K at 9ft from 84". Image quality goes beyond being able to see the individual pixels.
