Player shadows are often a much higher quality than those in the environment (which i expect is the area these shadow upgrades would be targeting). Objects with baked lighting are often an obvious exception, but the same can't be said for anything dynamically generated or animated.

To use FF14 as an example (since i'm waiting for the Duty Finder in it right now lol...):

Lowest shadow setting:

Highest (4x quality over the lowest):

The character does benefit from the higher quality shadows, but not nearly to the extent the environment does.

the problem is we dont have any pic to compare 

just people talking 

Really have to agree that you could have approached this with a better attitude.

Try to do so next time.

It's better to have more options, I wish that you could turn down some effects in all console games that don't run at 60FPS.

Day one patch instead of getting it all on disc? I'll wait for the The Last of Us Game of the Year Last Year Remastered Edition.

Day one patch because, since some workers had the time, they continued working on the game after it went gold.  I know, difficult concept to grasp.

Isnt it carrying on the trend from Infamous? :p

Infamous gave you the choice for 60fps in exchange for less graphic fidelity? Don't remember that at all.

Infamous allowed you to select 30fps locked as opposed to a higher frame rate.