Rumor: Xbox One Game Streaming Implemented In May Update

[Landguy]

Zekkyou said:

Landguy said:

I agree, it sucks that the consoles are so wee=ak that they don't offer 1080p/60 on every single game.  THey should have had 4k/120 for this generation to be considered a great machine.  That way the machines would have been a little more future proof beyond 2-3 years from launch.

I assume you're joking? For the PS4 and X1 to be capable of running games at 4k/120fps (without them looking rather ugly) they'd have to cost a lot. For reference, that's an almost 110,000% performance increase over the 7th gen's 720p/30fps. There's not much point in making a console so 'future proof' that it becomes almost completely irrelevant to the average consumer for several years after releasing :p

Passed that though, 60fps not being a universal standard is down to developers, not the consoles themselves. That 30fps has remained a common frame-rate through the 5th, 6th, 7th, and now 8th generation should be all the proof needed of that. This will likely remain the case until consoles become capable of stuff so expensive to produce that 30fps loses its usefulness (or if 60fps ever becomes a selling point to the average consumer).

Mostly agree with you.  Just like 30fps is "acceptable" when convenient, 900p is "acceptable" in almost any case for the majority of TV owners.  IF we reference the post the I replied to, it indicated that it must be 1080p or it must be bad.  

So, my point was really that unless you are going to go and make a truely substantial upgrade to the consoles, these minor differences in the consoles are just that.  Sure, the consoles would have been $800+ a piece to get to what I described, but that wasn't my point.