Unreal 5 Demo vs Series X Reveal

[Pemalite]

DonFerrari said:

Pemalite said:

If you invest in the hardware, you can do 4k, 60fps across every game one way or another.

On console, you don't have such a choice. - Even the "4k twins" . - Aka. Xbox One X and Playstation 4 couldn't guarantee 4k... At the end, developers made decisions to sacrifice resolution to bolster other aspects of their games like framerates or effects.

The difference with PC is the individual user gets to make that choice, not the developer, not the console manufacturer. - Can't run a game at 4k today? Then upgrade your PC tomorrow and you can. - There are a few games on Xbox One X which will only operate at 720P because developers didn't patch in higher resolution support, meaning that new shiny hardware did nothing.

It's also a little bit of a smirk-situation, pubslishers/developers repackage and resell the same old games the following generation as a "remaster" to try and take advantage of faster hardware, which often is just a resolution/framerate bump. - That kind of support exists for free on the PC the day the game releases, you don't need to rebuy the game.

I want to reinforce the "all games", because I remember seeing threads on VGC were it was mentioned that even very beefy PCs weren't running 4k60fps for some games, not saying the fault is of the PC lack of strength (that as you say in many threads you solve by putting even better HW) but problems on the code itself (perhaps on those threads they were just talking about regular arrangements like at most a Titan with normal SSD and compatible RAM instead of a very exotic exagerated setup).

PC hardware doesn't stop evolving. High-end hardware of today will eventually be low-end hardware tomorrow.

Crysis for example was a struggle to even run at 720P on PC when it was released with the fastest hardware available, today a low-end notebook is capable of running the game at 720P... And decent hardware can run that game at 4k.

PC and graphics in games can continuously improve on PC as new hardware comes available, especially when you start injecting new graphics effects/modding and so forth.