Anyone else feel resolution is overrated?

[Peh]

Mr Puggsly said:

Peh said:

The higher the resolution the higher the details: 

 

Agreed...

But for that picture you posted to make sense it would be Batman's face from a great distance. Do we really that level of clarity from something far from the screen? Maybe on a massive screen its nice and noticeable, but you couldn't really notice it on an average living room TV? Not really.

For example, we can already see enemies far off in the distance in a 720p game, in 1080p that distant enemy become more clear and crisp, but do I really need 4K to see his tiny face a little more clear? I'm not sure if that's gonna make a big difference on the enjoyment of the game.

Resolution certainly matters, but there is diminishing returns. I mean I would like to see a game on the X1X that pushes the full 6TF on cutting edge graphics over 4K.

I have both, a 27inch monitor and a 55inch TV in 4k.

A big factor for noticing details is the size of the display and distance towards it. I am sitting way closer to my monitor than the TV. I also have a 1440p monitor at the same size. The difference between both is, that the image is way sharper on the 4k one. 3D games, even old ones, really do take advantage of a higher res. Not that the texture quality enhances, but the aliasing gets less noticeable. 

For games with a high texture quality and lots of geometry in it the image feels crowded and messy on lower resolutions. So, at a certain point, you won't notice even higher details being added to the game since there is not enough room on the display to present it.

Where 4k really shines are games with very detailed environments like Assassins Creed Odyssey. But also a game like Rage looks very stunning in 4k.

 

Well, it doesn't have to be details on a tiny little face, but in BF5 it helps to spot an enemy in the distance and so it will be way easier in 8k.

 

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Peh said:

The higher the resolution the higher the details: 

In theory, yes

In practice, the higher resolution costs so much power and space that often texture quality has to be reduced at the same time, thus, while having more details than HD for instance, 4k often doesn't look nearly as great as it's supposed to be.

Also, if your Screen/Monitor is too small, the increase in resolution will be barely discernible, while getting higher detail textures will be much more visible. Just look at the picture and you see just how much they had to zoom in to make the difference obvious.

Not just theory. It's a simple fact.

 

I don't take processing power into the discussion, because people already had this exact discussion arguing between 720p and 1080p several years ago.

We will still see this on 4k vs 8k. It will go on until our retina won't see a difference.

 

"Also, if your Screen/Monitor is too small, the increase in resolution will be barely discernible, while getting higher detail textures will be much more visible."

 

This sentence doesn't make sense. How can you see higher texture detail with less resolution? The resolution detemines how much you can see. Take Batmans eye for example. Would a higher textured eye give more details to that picture? It's a no on both screens. But on 4k we don't have to zoom in further to see it since it is 4 times the resolution of 1080p.

 

 

 

JRPGfan said:

Peh said:

The higher the resolution the higher the details: 

^ thats some marketing BS stuff, and not real.

 

 

This is the "real" thing:

PS4pro (set to running 1080p):

vs

Xbox One X (4k):

 

In alot of games the difference isnt that great.
Fornite being a prime exsample of this.

No, no marketing BS. That's just a fact. 4k is four times the resolution of 1080p. Or to say it differently, I could place 4 1080 screens on one 4k display without a loss in information in relation to 4 1080 display. I could post some screens of my own if you really want to see the difference. I sadly don't have a 1080p display at home, so the upscaler would fill the missing pixels.