Native 4K not worth it.

[vivster]

Otter said:

vivster said:

Absolutely agree. Just like 1080p wasn't worth it yesterday, or how 720p was the day before. HD has just been a big fad anyway. Let's just stop progress since we apparently reached peak 10 years ago.

 

It's already a travesty that devs have to force themselves to make games in 1080p, with textures no less. All a useless drag on performance. And who decided 30fps was so great? Let's go back to 24fps, works great for movies. That's a 25% performance gain just like that.That way we can finally have the cheapest consoles with the best games, now that devs can finally focus on gameplay rather than useless graphics and their tedious optimizations.

Did you even read the OP? The majority of my argument is about graphics. I don't know where you got the idea of stopping progress... its simply a debate on where progress is most appreciable and actually leaves a lasting impression. 

I'd rather much shinier graphics at a 1080p/1440p, considering the jump to 4k to me isn't that impressive despite the massive drain on resources.

It's a bit too easy to just exclude resolution from "graphics". It's a big part of the visual presentation, which can just as easily drag down the visual fidelity as bad textures or terrible lighting. In the end it really is preference.

However I just want to point out one thing. "drag on performance" always depends on what hardware is used and if something as simple as resolution drags too much performance, that means something is wrong with the hardware it's running on. We shouldn't be talking about making compromises on simple things and rather demand for certain entities to give us the choice to forgo those compromises in the first place. There shouldn't be any compromises if it's technologically possible.

I assume you wouldn't mind if you got a high resolution on top of everything else or even if you could choose for yourself. So rather than suggesting to take away a feature in favor of your prefered features you should start demanding that you get to choose for yourself.