If certain consoles can't acheive 1080p now, what happens in a couple years?

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Vena said:

Isn't it obvious? While the X1 and PS4 struggle to reach 1080p, let alone run anything at 60FPS, the WiiU will continue to improve until it starts providing 4k resolutions running at 120FPS. Given the current trend, I expect this to occur somewhere around Zelda U as the growth is impossible to ignore:

Pikmin 3 (720/30) -> 3DWorld/MK8/Toad/Splatoon (720/60) -> Smash (1080/60) -> some extrapolation -> Zelda U (4k, 120)

Now, how this is happening? I'm not quite sure, but I suspect that Iwata has hired an army of Pikmin that work by night and upgrade our WiiU's while we sleep.

Smash can get away with 1080P/60fps because it's not pushing a ton of assets at once, it's not a big sprawling world littered with objects, it's a small constrained box.
So the assets the game does have can be of above-average quality, such as character models, resolution and framerate, Nintendo's fantastic art style helps a ton too as it can hide a ton of flaws in things like texture resolution.

prayformojo said:

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't most games which start on consoles and get ported over to PC run better as well? It's not just about ease of use but also stability.

Yes, essentially only because in comparison, the PC has "infinite" performance/resources compared to consoles, it's constantly getting faster and faster, today you can have a PC that's 10x faster than a Playstation 4, easily enough. - The only real limitation is your wallet and technological progression.

It also helps that developers have intimate knowledge of the PC as a platform, the hardware architecture has not really changed as radically as consoles. (I.E. From x86 to PowerPC.) it's more of a slow evolutionary change that's abstracted via updated software, so there is no real learning curve.

Most game Engines also usually start off with being built for the PC first and foremost as it's the platform they are designed, built and tested upon, so PC gamers benefit from that, Frostbite being a prime example.

Playstation_prophet said:
It will be interesting to see how the cloud plays a factor in this gen.

Can I play TLOU on PC? Master race my as a matter of factions.

TLOU will probably be on PC soon, without the need for having it ported. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPCS3
The better question is, could the Playstation 3 ever play Star Citizen?