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curl-6 on 05 August 2024
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Wman1996 said:
curl-6 said:

Diablo IV, The Hong Kong Massacre, Ark Survival Evolved, and Magnetic: Cage Closed all top out at 720p on PS4.

There were a few other sub-900p PS4 games too like Tekken 7 which was 864p. It wasn't common, but it wasn't unheard of either.

Thank you for the fact check. While my point stands overall that PS4 almost universally performed equal or better to the XBONE, I was unaware how close it was sometimes. 

I don't know about you or the others on this thread, but I find it so misleading that the 7th Generation is often called the HD Generation. While Wii was intentionally underpowered and Blue Ocean, it had no HD support. Xbox 360 and PS3 had a maximum resolution of 720p in almost every game, with some even lower than that. 360 had under a dozen if I found accurate results on a search and PS3 only had a few dozen 1080p games. 

8th Generation was the true "HD Generation" in my mind. Wii U supported 720p almost all the time with some games higher than that. Xbox One and PS4 had no sub 720p games that I know of and plenty at 900p and some at 1080p. And then PS4 Pro and Xbox One X opened up higher resolutions but with some 4K.

The 9th Generation or maybe the upcoming 10th Generation would be the "4K Generation". 

PS4 was objectively stronger than Xbone, yes. The extent to which the gap is meaningful depends on the person I suppose.

There are a couple of sub-HD Xbox One games I believe, such as Ark Survival Evolved, but they are a rarity. 

It's hard to rule a single generation as "HD" or "4K" when each individual game is free to use whatever resolution they like; for instance, despite many labelling PS5/Xbox Series X as 4K consoles, Immortals of Aveum is 720p on both, Lord of the Fallen can drop to 648p on both, etc.