wasn't it less then 1080 due to design black bars?

You know the black bars are rendered too... it is like a object in the GPU's render... no upscale used the image outputs in 1080p.

It's not 4k@240fps? Preorder cancelled.

All this talk about 30fps....Last gen could do 1080p 60fps, but then you won't have god of war 3 or the last of us levels of IQ. This gen, and the next gen, and the next gen of the next gen will have the same problem. If you want to max the IQ it comes with a cost. It depends in the end what the developer wants. If they want to reach maximum IQ but the prize is 30fps, i'm fine.

And before someone says "now 60fps don't matter because is a ps4 game....", if the game was in 60fps, it will be better, and if a system could run the game at 60fps it will be preferable.

We are talking about this game which is some how being compared to Gears. This game is nothing like gears apart from being a TPS no other similarities. These guys couldn't even develop a multiplayer for this game and everyone is shouting they are the next naughtdog. Sony needs a good multiplayer development team and not a naughty dog, so far all their games are story driven, getting repetitive and frankly boring.

Was it confirmed the lack of MP?

They don't have to confirm it we all know there is no competitive multiplayer, this is sony we are talking about a company that cannot develop a good multiplayer game. Nearly all their games are story driven, this was the game that looked so promising and with competitive multiplayer it could have been different. But now it looks like just another naughty dog clone, stoy driven and it's getting tyring.

ps there was a interview with the owner not so long ago stating they were "open" to a multiplayer but focused on single player, make of it wha you want.

Like they said, they need to get the base game-play and IP right. Multiplayer can show up in its inevitable sequels.

No, he specifically stated different games favor different setups... In the case of a fighting game 60fps is the way to go, but for a 3rd person shooter you often gain more from upping the visuals than you do the frame rate. The PS4 could be another 50% more powerful and we would likely still see many developers choose 1080p/30fps, and use the power to make the game look even better.

Not saying 60fps isn't nice, its great for any game, but you are going to please more people with better graphics than 60fps in this case. The slight loss in camera mobility and smoothness is made up for by a better visual atmosphere (which he specifically stated they were aiming for). Is it not the job of the developer to give players the experience they want the most? They have been making this same choice over and over for years now and the players keep on buying them, so it's sure got evidence backing it.

Good to know and when that day comes I will be the first to buy it, but unless there is some sort of surprise reveal that multiplayer is included I will not be picking this one up.