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Do you consider 720p to be a viable res for gaming in 2020?

Yes 27 55.10%
 
No 22 44.90%
 
Total:49

I think 720p looks a little tired on big screen TVs - you can get away with it on a smaller screen like the Switch but not on 65 inch OLEDs and the like. Super Mario Odyssey still scales up decently and that is 900p, I think that's pretty much the floor these days. I think 1080p is fine and anything more than that is a bonus but it can't come at the expense of frame rate....



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EricHiggin said:
On our 5.0mbps dsl, we can't have two computers running YouTube at 1080p at the same time ever. Our devices aren't junk either. If someone is watching YouTube at 1080p during non peak hours, another computer can be 480p without buffering. During peak hours we can't even get 1080p and 720p is the best, with a second computer being at 360p. Streaming to a TV is terrible. 720p best case scenario non peak, 360p with buffering during peak, and don't bother trying YouTube on another device if you're streaming to a TV. If someone is watching YouTube at 720p during peak, and I'm gaming online, the lag becomes unbearable.

Kinda feels like being fed scraps at times. Thankfully we can download some of what we'd otherwise stream all night for free in 1080p. Gotta stream YouTube though.

and why not download YouTube stuff?

For example I downloaded all the AVGN episodes ages ago on my HDD and can now watch them whenever I want at the highest quality.

Since I also have a 4k TV, I would download certain 4k videos (which are pretty big of course) and then put them on a flash drive and watch them on TV. Can't properly stream YouTube in 4k even though I should be able to with my connection.



tripenfall said:
I think 720p looks a little tired on big screen TVs - you can get away with it on a smaller screen like the Switch but not on 65 inch OLEDs and the like. Super Mario Odyssey still scales up decently and that is 900p, I think that's pretty much the floor these days. I think 1080p is fine and anything more than that is a bonus but it can't come at the expense of frame rate....

Definitely depends on the screen and how far you're away from it but when looking at my TV, 1080p is definitely the minimum.

The lack of resolution is very noticeable when looking at 900p games of which the X1 had many before Xbox One X released. 720p games on the other hand look like utter crap.

720p videos however, usually age better.

Last edited by Barozi - on 28 March 2020

Regarding the poll question, since Playstation Now caps games at 720p on PC (for seemingly no reason), that's how I experienced God of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn.
The games clearly aren't made for it, so it's not exactly optimal, but once you get used to it they actually still look pretty great and ofc play the same regardless.
So absolutely I still consider it viable and even more so on Switch where games like BotW look just as good if not better in handheld mode.



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720p is still a viable resolution, but it’s quality depends on the display size you are viewing it on.

720p still looks great on a 5” screen on something like a Phone or a Handheld. 720p is not bad on the 43” TV in the bedroom. It really starts to suffer on the 75” TV in the Living Room. By the time you get to a VR Headset, and stretch that image out to 250” or more, then it is looking pretty rough.

If Sony or Microsoft announced a Handheld that could play all PS5/XBSX games at 720p, on a 5” display, that would be perfectly acceptable.



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Fun fact, for my new tv i had to get a scart to hdmi adapter to display my gamecube which only lets me use the 720p mode and not the 1080p mode also available on the adapter



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720p is absolutely blurry and should not be considered HD.



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720p on switch and phones is fine, my father got a 720p phone the same size as mine which is 1080p, I see barely a difference. 720p on a big screen in games is horrible, 720p in movies is still pretty good for me.



I mean this was bound to happen. The Genesis back in the day used to brag about their games being in HD.



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Technology moves on as it always has. 1080p is the base now. 4k is midrange. The limits going forward are going to be development budgets, not hardware.