And nobody noticed (not even Digital Foundry) until now?

I noticed a while ago as did many people. It was clear something was way off in the multiplayer but both Guerilla and Sony claimed the game was running in 1080p in multiplayer. Pretty much everyone thought that the reason the textures looked so off was due to a horrible use of FXAA but it turns out it was actually due to the resolution being so poor.

The importance of specs depends on the gamer.

Specs aren't a huge deal to me; I preferred the Wii over PS3/360 despite the spec gap, and my first choice of 8th gen console was Wii U.

150 million PS2 owners didn't seem to mind getting a machine with inferior specs.

It's because the game is essentially running at 1080i.

The game is being rendered at 960X1080, but the devs aren't just scaling that to native 1080p. Instead they're filling in the missing pixels with data from the previous frame. You can see it here.

Look at the white objects in the center of the screen. That ghost like copy of them just to the side is a result of this technique. That's where those objects were the previous frame.

For a long time people have known there was something up with multiplayer, but just now we're figuring out what exactly that is.

After all the shit Sony fans gave Titanfall for not being 1080p and using KZ:Shadowfall as an example of "1080p 60fps of pure beauty"(yes, that is a direct quote) then this comes out. Some serious crow has been eaten these last few hours.

Oh my goodness! What rez does it run on the XB1?

Arguments about an exact resolution for every game are daft.  Not every sport is 100m sprint.

Results are only meaningful in comparison to other players, like how well would XB1 run Killzone Shadowfall?  Would it be running at half 720p to hit 60fps?

It really depends on the game. 30fps for a shooter like Metro Last Light is acceptable. 30fps for a shooter like Borderlands 2 is not. I think Ryse has proven that 900p is perfectly acceptable. Dice was wise to choose that on the PS4 at 60fps over a wonky fps at 1080p

So Xbox fans are taking this as a victory, when Killzone would run and/or look worse on their console? I guess you have to take what you can get. Even if you have to twist it sometimes.

As someone else said in this thread, "You live by the sword, you die by it." I agree. Just like Xbox fans boasted about superior multiplats last gen, even if the difference was minor, now they have to deal with the bad publicity from inferior multiplats this gen.

Dat Source Engine though