Phil Spencer - "Why do you care about 60fps?"

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I'd be with Phil here if he didn't defend 4K in favour of 60 FPS. It's probably true that most people can't tell the what's causing the difference between 30 FPS games and 60 FPS games, but I bet a lot of them can feel the difference without identifying what's different. The same probably goes for 1080p vs. 4K, but I bet most people that can't really tell what exactly is different would still prefer better framerate over higher resolution. One looks slightly different, the other feels slightly different. Of course there's some genre-dependency here, but most shooters, for example, would definitely benefit more from framerate than resolution. We're simply at the point where increasing resolution offers very diminishing returns already, at least in a lot of typical cases (I know distance and screen size matter a lot).