Reggie: the 4K audience is “a bit too limited,” talks fan feedback

[Kerotan]

curl-6 said:

Kerotan said:

The ps4 pro isn't that much stronger then the ps4 yet it can give the resolution a big bump.  It's not as tasking as you think and will become pretty easy by the time ps5 hits.  It's the new standard and a needed one.  After 4k we might not need to go higher but we shouldn't settle at 1080p.

4K is four times as many pixels to fill as 1080p. Spending quadruple the power on making the picture a tiny bit sharper is hugely wasteful in my view. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a scam to try to get people to buy new TVs.

Except it doesn't need to work out like that.  Techniques like checkerboarding can save a lot of processing power.  

 

1080p was common on the ps3 and 360. Now pretty much the standard on ps4. Ps4 pro can either do native or upscaled 4k no problem. Why wouldn't ps5 aim to set native 4k as the new standard? It's the obvious step to make.  

 

After ps5 you can argue the ps6 should hold at 4k and push all its extra power into other areas but for now we must aim to get 4k as the standard.