It's Early Days for 4K/HDR Gaming, Microsoft Exec Says

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Zkuq said:

teigaga said:

This.

I would say 4k is a powerful marketing term but it also takes far less effort than actually tweaking a games build for the Pro/Scorpio. I'm hoping when PS4/XB1 become obsolete, developers will completely ignore 4k as a target and we'll once again need another set of mid gen updates for those who want that extra bit of image clarity.

Ooh, good point about tweaking. 4k support actually probably is less effort than using the same processing power for improving graphics in other ways, so that's actually a pretty strong point for 4k. Also, that wish is probably in vain. By the time the next generation (or equivalent) arrives, 4k TVs are going to be very common if only because by that time, it'll be hard to find any half-decent non-4k TVs. 4k games will probably be the standard because 4k TVs will be the standard. I'm already seeing mostly 4k TVs being advertised, and they're already quite affordable.

Yeah, its hard to predict. Although 4k TVs will be the only TVs sold in a few years, I don't think the general population are going to be hugely anal about whether the gaming content is native 4k or not. Just as we went a whole generation where almost nothing was 1080p and many games fell short of 720p. I think devs will target everything from 1080p/1440p/1800p/4k. Fundementally 1080p looks great and when some games come out at 1080p looking like GCI and others go with 4k and look significantly worse, I think the pressure will be on to find the right balance between resolution/performance and graphics.