How important is 60fps to you?

[chakkra]

IcaroRibeiro said:

chakkra said:

The thing is that, in this day and age, you cannot release a 1080p-30fps game anymore. Developers need to target 1440p at the very minimum, and | believe any 1440p-30fps game could have a 900p-60fps mode with just a very few downgrades in graphics.

Why not? 

I understand some of you have standards, but those standards aren't shared for all gamers. A game like Horizon tailor made for PS4 runs perfectly and has a graphic overhaul and vast open world runs 30 FPS on console and nobody gave a damn, it didn't impacted its sales negatively nor stopped the game to be one of the biggest selling debut games ever 

They very likely couldn't provide a game with the same graphics quality, open world design and environment if they used most of the hardware it was designed to (PS4) for making it have more frames per second 

I think this is a perspective of a PC gamer "make the game thinking on the higher end specs then scaled it down for people who does not have fancy PCs", it works perfectly. However the perspective for a console it "this should run flawlessly in every piece of hardware of this console family". Instead of working on higher resolution and higher framerates they should provide the best games they could make running in a hardware with a specific set up, and this will eventually lead them to sacrifice something 

I do enjoy when games give me the option of choosing graphics vs performance, but I understand a game like The Last of Us 2 could never run 60 FPS on PS4 in the way it was conceptualized. Talking about Switch hardware things get even more limited as Switch is severely underpowered compared to other consoles in market, for Nintendo the choice of 30 FPS or 60 FPS is the choice of what mechanics can be implemented and I'm not sure if anyone wants to some Nintendo games to have less mechanics just for a spike in the number of FPS that almost nobody in Nintendo consoles is really paying attention 

Why not you ask? Maybe Sony would be able to get away with it but I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that if MS announced tomorrow that HB2 and Gears 6 will be running at 1080p-30fps the whole internet and media would not shut up about how "disappointed" they are and how that is not acceptable for a next-gen game, no matter how good the trailers might look. Heck, one of the Digital Foundry guys already caused a commotion on Twitter because apparently, a "1080p UI is 'unacceptable' in a next-gen console"

Heck, I'm willing to bet that many of the people that are here defending 30fps would be first in line criticizing them.