Nice explanation of what they did here, makes things kind of blurry though. I wonder if there's a way to improve upon this technique that doesn't require too much more horsepower. I think it's funny they even had to explain it, but these resolution wars have become serious business to the point of bloodshed. Ha.

Of course this technique will improve in the future, as everything. A programable pipeline provides the tools to do some awesome things, when done right. The problem here is that the developers aren't the PR guys. This Q&A should have been provided before the shitstorm.

It is not demanding like native 1080p but it is more demanding than 720p or I guess even 900p upscaled with better IQ too...

BTW it needs a good chunk of fast read/write RAM... I can't see how devs can store the frame buffer and these isolated addictional frames in the 32MB eSRAM to work with... store in DDR3 will be too slow to do that every frame in 60fps... so I guess this tech won't be used in Xbone's games.

I can be wrong too.

You shouldn't guess/compare with 720p or 900p requirements, because you don't have the graphics development knowledge. That conclusion on the DDR3 is wrong, coping 960x1080 images from - to RAM isn't very bandwidth expensive.

It is... you need to move these 4 frames at least 60 times per second and create the framebuffer to work on before to send to screen... you can't do that on PS3 or 360... I guess you can't too on Xbone because the eSRAM is limited to 32MB that is already not enought for the frame buffer.

this^, and because resolution wars people doesn't think clearly anymore, i think GG should get the praise of this technique instead of lying accusation, i don't mind if they trick my eyes or whatever, as long as it looks good, it's good then!!, i don't care what kind of cast or magic they used, i don't give a f*ck to be honest, hell even if they make something 480p look as good as 1080p then i'm OK with that (but unfortunately that is technically impossible), to be this long for being revealed, that's one hell of a technique, think about future, this technique should be followed by the other studios, all they need is improvement, so people won't be able to notice anymore between 960 x 1080p and 1920 x 1080p, and the most important thing, just be honest and tell people the truth from the beginning.

Yep. They need 2.5 full HD frames for their technique, at least. The best I have seen on XB1 is a double buffered full HD frame (used by every 1080p XB1 games), I think 32MB video ram is not enough for this technique.

And don't forget that the 3 (half-)full HD frames need to store additionall information, the pixel motion vector.

overcomplicated technique, just set it to 720p and have done.

A single 32 bits per channel 960x1080 rgb image weights less than 12 MB, copyng from - to 4 of them, 60 times per second uses less than 3 GBPS, much less than the 68 GBPS of the X1. This is a worst case scenario, taking into consideration that no one uses 32 bits per channel in gaming, and I'm not taking into consideration color compression. Using 8 bits per channel you use more or less 1 GBPS on this, something I'm sure it's doable.

A really interesting technique; so, MP is 1080p.