What are you willing to sacrifice for 60 FPS or higher?

[curl-6]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah I knew what bits were. XD And I knew games had pixels and that newer games had more of em, but if you'd asked me what "480p" or "720p" meant when I was a teenager I would've had no idea. I didn't actually know about how many frames per second games used back then either, but I could always feel the difference in smoothness between, say, F Zero X and Mario 64.

Well that was my point. Resolution IS the new bits. Polygons for a short time were marketed too. I'd say the only real difference is that Resolution is mostly a phenomena cared about on the internet. Like Playstation 4 had games at 1080p in the beginning of the gen that were 720p or 900p on Xbox One, but Sony didn't market that. Still, I imagine it swayed some people's opinion. But now we're seeing 4K marketed, just not in an ultra competitive way. More as a upgrade for a base model.

Yeah I remember back in the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube days the "bits" of gen 4 and 5 became "x million polygons per second", before coming "HD/720p/1080p" in the 7th gen. It's always been some technical buzzword designed to make a system seem better than its competition.