Nintendo getting slammed at every turn while the other two suffer far less criticism sounds like the gaming media as usual to me, frankly.

Maybe it would help if I posted the rumour.

"Sony’s (SNY) plan to introduce an 80-inch XBR LED television set with 4K resolution is said to be the start of a larger scheme to push 4K on consumers, much like 3D was a huge push in the industry a couple of years ago. Since 3D isn’t gaining much traction, Sony (and we’d assume the rest of the industry) is betting on 4K as a way to get consumers to upgrade their home entertainment devices. Sony is already selling 4K Blu-ray players for $200, and the company’s next-generation PlayStation 4 will indeed support 4K resolution playback as well, a source tells us. Like the PlayStation 3 did with Blu-ray, Sony is betting that by including the ability to support 4K resolution media — games and movies — consumers will have an incentive to upgrade to new 4K television sets'"

The keyword there is playback, there is nothing to suggest that games will be in 4K hence no one is suggesting that games will be native 4K, hence no one is argueing they can't. Well I guess some people in this thread are suggesting they can't but then again no one is suggesting that it will.

The PS4 offering 4K movie playback tho is a given, Sony already sell 4K Blu-Ray players, why wouldn't they support 4K on the PS4? The real question is if they will include a scaler to upscale PS4 games to 4K.

I don't know what this 4K thing is. Seriously.




seriously, I don't.

you can't spot the difference going 1080p upwards.

4K is the resolution for cinema, yet a 1080p signal projected onto a wall produces quality on par.

If true, it is just something sony will erroneously promote as a flagship feature. When it isn't.

No one thought sony could make a console they did. No one thought ps2 could beat ps1 it did. No one thought ps3 would sell with blue ray an untested new technology , it sold and is still selling.Blue ray defeated HD-DVD which was a horrible product I might ad. Why does this article say theres no way sony is going to do 4k resolution. Why not? People may bash sony but you haft to give them props they take huge chances and push technology. Even when they fail they try and turn it into a profit somehow. Example: Sony came out with the mini disc players EPIC FAIL. What do they do, they make the psp and turn this dead technology into a profit in the form of psp UMD's. I owned both the mini disc and the psp they are no different its the same disc's just used for games on the psp. Now Thats just smart.

Quick answer... 1080p means 1K. 4K resolution means 4320p. As simple as that.

Actually 4K is

3840x2160 or 4096 × 1714 (for movies)

Sony will just make the ps4 like the ps3. The ps3 can be hooked up to an old picture tube or (SPOILER ALERT FOR PS4) or if you buy a 1080 tv you can hook up and HDMI cord to it. Remember ps3 came out the same way the plasma tv's and lcd's were sky high in price. This is the same idea for ps4 if it 4k resolution which is the future in tvs by the way. They will simply put in 1080 standard on PS4 and (SPOILER ALERT FOR PS4) if you by a 4k resolution tv then im sure there will be a cable and a port for the new tv's. Also japan has new tvs out already that are super HD tv's which is twice the resolution of 1080. Sony makes products to go with japanese tech. These tvs will not be in the us for another year or 2 just in time for PS4. All I have seen are LED tvs and they are 1080, 3d or blue ray or blueray 3d tv's. These super HD tvs will be awesome and everyone will want one its the ameican way.

GT6 might have a showroom in 4K, doubt they'll get a track running at that res. Maybe an bare bones test track at 2160p to give a taste of the gen after. Photo mode will look nice in 4K anyway.
GT4 to GT5 went from 640x540 (upscaled to 1080i) to 1280x1080 (upscaled to 1080p). 4 times as many pixels. Heck maybe they'll even get the game to run at 2560x2160. PD loves their polygons and resolution, there still won't be any love for trees though :)

Pixeljunk might do a 4K game too, other arcade titles as well, if not simply as an easy 2xFSAA.

I see another 5 years of HD ready style confusion coming with this ambiguous 4K usage.
I recently put it all together

1080p = 1920x1080
2160p = 3840x2160 QFHD (quad full high definition) or UHDTV1
4320p = 7680x4320 8K UHDTV or UHDTV2 (ultra high definition TV)

2K = 2048x1080 used in your local digital cinema
4K = 4096x2160 for consumer electronics
Digital cinema 4K = 4096x1714 (2.39:1) or 3996x2160 (1.85:1)
Academy 4K = 3656x2664 (1.37:1)
Full aperture 4K = 4096x3112 (1.32:1)
8K = 7680x4320 aka super hi-vision

No clue what actual resolution ps4's 4K will be. so called 4K tv's are actually 3840x2160, but sony's 4K projector is 4096x2160