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potato_hamster on 10 January 2019
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EricHiggin said:
potato_hamster said:

Sony released the first 4K TV in 2012 for what that's worth. https://www.cnet.com/news/sony-releases-first-4k-tv-the-84-inch-xbr-84x900/

I highly highly doubt any console releasing in the next couple years will support 8K, especially considering the 8K TV announced cost $13,000. I don't see any reason to believe that 8K TVs won't cost over $5K for years like every other tv with a new resolution standard has, and it won't have a decent adoption rate until sets can be had for less than $1000, possibly longer as you're really starting to see the effects of diminishing returns. The difference between 8K and 4K will be harder to notice than the difference between 4K and 1080p. It's possible the difference between the two will be incredibly difficult to notice from 6-8 feet away on a television that's 60" or smaller. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's adopted at an even slower rate than 4K was (which as far as I remember, was adopted at a slower rate than expected).

Even then, the processing power to produce an 8K image is as significant leap in performance from 1080p to 4K, which means the technology to render video games at that resolution at an acceptable frame rate, even with some type of dynamic checkerboard technique is still in the realm of thousands of dollars today, if not more. I'd say you're much more likely to see consoles support new video standards that improve picture quality in other ways, such as better HDR etc. If it does support 8K at all, it'll just be for video files.

I don't see how PS4 Pro in 2016 would be all that much different than a PS5 Pro around 2023, give or take. Dynamic checkerboarding is taking whatever they can stick in an affordable box and upscaling it. PS could probably checkerboard PS4 Pro up to 8k right now, it would just look like base PS4 upscaled to 4k, maybe worse, but with the performance of a PS5 Pro, it should be reasonable just like how the PS4 Pro is now with 4k.

I thought you were talking about the PS5 releasing in 2019 or 2020. 2023 is definitely more possible. My apologies.