| JRPGfan said:
The cost in terms of performance from going from 1920 x 1080 ====> 4k resolution is mad. While the resulting gain in visual quality isnt anywhere near that big.
Imagine a cheap nintendo device thats "only" 1080p that runs games at same quality as the PS5/Xbox2 (at 4k). Alot of people will question why they spent so much more for their consols, with barely any gains in terms of graphics.
Ps5/ Xbox2 might still be too early for 4k gameing on consols. |
I do agree with your compelling argument about top quality 1080p vs 4k. Polycount, lighting, and physics calculations would theoretically surpass 4k resolution at 1080p and for a FAR cheaper price. Potentially by a significant margin. That being said 4k resolution will be more pleasing to the eye and it will create an illusion of vastly improved texture quality that would blow the former out of the waters. I think one of the big three are going to push hard into 4k territory. I never claimed that it would be native 4k, but rather marketed as 4k with an upscale in the same sense last gen did with 1080p. This will be far easier to do in my opinion than it was with 1080p because more and more smart TV's are using a killer upscale tech. My old 1080i 68" tv from 2003 did a beautiful job of this. Games looked better on that TV than most 46" TV's with native 1080p and I have done side by side comparisons. The PS4 looks half decent when upscaled on a 4k TV. However the jaggies and quality of the edges of most objects look poor beyond all reasoning. Hence I would recommend a 1080p screen for these consoles unless your true motive is to flop your e-peen around. 4k movies look great, but most of them are not truly native at this time. Infact I believe none of them have been filmed in 4k resolution so in theory there is no TRUE 4k movie on the market. Companies are flopping the 4k logo around to sell more TV's. Sony is incredibly guilty of this act. Films will be true 4k before games are and I expect we will see more native 4k movies within the next couple of years.
