Is HDMI 2.1 important for console gaming?

[SvennoJ]

Kerotan said:
Actually Samsung just started production of OLED displays so price should drop with competition.

So it looks like the first wave of 2.1 TV's will be late 2019 and the first wave of 12 bit HDR displays will be late 2020. AFAIK 12 bit HDR is true HDR and much improved over what we currently get. I'm open to correction on that. I just hope this TV's with full 12 bit HDR and legit 2.1 don't cost a fortune. Are these features that would greatly add to the price? Maybe at launch for profit but if the markup is huge the prices will drop fast after the early adopters have splashed their cash.

It's not just the bit depth that matters, current tvs also don't have the peak brightness (GTS goes up to 10k nits, current tvs top out around 1500) and they are still struggling to meet DCI P3 color space, which is a subset of rec.2020, the promised standard. Of course no clue what video games are going to support next gen.