If you were to have to choose between a good HDR display or an SDR 4k display which would you choose?
Frankly, I feel HDR makes the biggest difference, Games that look meh like Elden Ring Graphics wise look so beautiful because of good HDR, like a bright vivid painting. 4k is nice and all for text, HUD and the like when the option presents itself but I rarely feel a wow factor from it where as with HDR I'm constantly going wow, that's good HDR. Like a lightning storm in Red dead 2 gets enhanced to feel like you're in an actually lightning storm, HDR effects the mood and atmosphere to a great degree which can improve the way you feel about a game, essentially effecting your enjoyment. 4k does very little but make things look more defined, tidier and sharp. If I had to choose between a 1080p or 4k display I'd choose to downsample with HDR at 2k. When it's done really well it enhances a game to a degree that you'd think it looks remastered. I'm playing Ni ni kuni 2 and the colour contrast is stunning, the luminosity in the contrast makes everything look surreal. Easily the best modern display upgrade and I don't even have that great of a TV, OLED HDR /Dolby vision are both even more impressive. We will never see 8k take over cause getting to 4k is already just over kill, even for film content or perhaps developers have to better utilise it in the future and aren't doing so now.
Of course it's great to have both but does anyone else feel this way or is 4k the goal for ya? And do you think the Switch 2 will have a HDR display?
Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 30 July 2024
