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ICStats on 23 March 2014
kirby007 said:

since the launch of HD tellies and consoles prior to gen 8 only have a few games making that target

EDIT to clarify timetable

HDTV LAUNCH -------xbox360/ps3 below hd ghraphics still ------------- 4k monitors launch ------ Gen 8 --- 720p/1080p ew mah gewd

Sure, and why do we need progress anyway?

8bit games in 256x240 never killed anyone.



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novasonic on 23 March 2014

I find you all guilty of being whiney bitches! I sentence you to 6 months of playing exclusively Atari 2600 and Colecovision. A few months of 192p will learn you to respect your 720p.




8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m

Michael-5 on 23 March 2014

How did we survive the 8 & 16 bit era when pixels and colours could be counted?

When a new generation of consoles is introduced, we have expectations.

SNES/Genesis - 16 bit gaming + more colours!
PS1/N64 - 3D gaming + 700MB/Disk memory
PS2/GCN/XB - 420p + 4.7 GB/Disk memory
PS3/360 - 720p (native in many PS3 games) + 45GB/Disk Memory

PS4/XB1 - native 1080p + no disk memory upgrade.



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d21lewis on 23 March 2014

In the early 80's, my mom and her brothers and sisters played an Atari console on a black and white TV. Only half of them survived to tell the tale.



Locknuts on 23 March 2014

720p can still look fine. Sub HD has always looked pretty bad on a HDTV though.



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curl-6 on 23 March 2014
Captain_Tom said:

Will you people just get over yourselves?!  1080p should be the new standard for christ sakes.  Otherwise go play your PS2 because I am enjoying the present day and don't feel like being dragged down with you...



LiquorandGunFun on 23 March 2014

I survived by my gaming PC.



 

J_Allard on 23 March 2014
lt_dan_27 said:

Did you stop reading after one sentence I posted? And first off, everyone knew that the mp wasn't 60 fps. It was just unlocked and was usuaually in the ballpark of 60fps. Here's the guerrilla response, 

http://bgr.com/2014/03/11/killzone-shadow-fall-1080p-response/

The reason people made such a big deal out of it was because they knew they could. If a problem isn't fixed seconds after what happens, that's what they'll believe. I bet if there were a similar thing with xbox games xbox fans would praise MS for their enginuity... oh wait,, they did. It's called tiled resources. They're not exactly the same at all, but they're both similar hat tricks. And I'm not saying either are bad, I'm saying the double standard annoys me. Would I rather have "full" 1080p? Yes, but you gotta do what you gotta do. 

You can say everyone "knew it wasnt 60fps" yet that didn't stop them from posting 60fps. Hell, look at the link you just posted. Guerrilla says in that very quote that SP and MP runs at 60fps. That link just confirmed everything I said by the way. They admit it's not the typical 1080p, they just find a way to emulate, blurring the screen to hell. But again, that's irrelevant. The point was people were playing a game not native 1080p and not 60fps all while telling us you needed native 1080p and 60fps to be a real next gen game. You can try and argue technical semantics all you want, facts are facts and the point remains. You're focusing on how they used tricks to try and simulate what people were claiming the game to be, I am focusing on the fact that these people couldn't even tell the game wasn't what they were claiming it to be. Toodles.



POE on 23 March 2014

Consumismmmmm!!!



kirby007 on 23 March 2014

Many people miss my point,
What i mean is that monitors and TVs are ahead of console capabilities
SD during any gen pre 7
FULLHD during gen 7
4k during gen 8

thus outrage about 720p doesn't make sense



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