Soundwave said:
Isn't this similar to the techniques MS used on the XBox One and took a lot of shit for? I seem to recall a lot of "the feel of 1080p" jokes. I don't doubt that it looks better than 1080p, but this is not native 4K. I think Sony should have just waited to release this and gotten a proper upgrade and 4K Blu-Ray and all that so that it was a proper 4K device, as is, it's very compromised, and really what's the point? PS4 Slim was going to do fine this holiday season. There was no urgent need to release this. |
The techniques aren't similar, no, but the goal is the same (to make a lower rez image look higher rez). However due to the more advanced upscaling techniques employed here, the result is a bigger improvement, if I'm reading this DF article correctly.
As for how much shit Microsoft took, I don't know. I wasn't active at the start of the gen, but when I signed up, in DF articles, I saw just as much "900p, 1080p, whatever, the difference between 900p upscaled to 1080p and native 1080p really isn't *that* big" (from all fanbases) as I saw PS fans gloating over 1080p.
