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fluky-nintendy said:
And what about all the "1080p" games Nintendo has? :P

What's that have to do with this thread?



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I hope this gets laughed out of court...



Sony's lawyers or lawyers of some joe schmoe. Yeah he's screwed.



TheTwilightTriforce said:

Awesome!!! I hope with something like this game developer stop false advertising and consumer get what game developer advertise!!!

This^

While I think it is a bit ridiculous and I really do not care about 720p/900p/1080p as long as the game is awesome. This will maybe stop publisher/developper to do false advertizing. And Sony is doing that a lot (Like with the PS3 and the almighty cell processor, the disabled DSP etc...). 



true_fan said:
I bet sony will quit trying to fuel the resolution war now with their lies.

1st- Shahid Kamal-Give me 1080p 60fps or give me death
2nd- Sony says KZSF is native 1080p 60fps for both sp and mp
3rd-Sony says watchdogs will be the only console running Watch Dogs at 1080p 60fps

1st - The dude is an idiot. Sony and MS both have their fair share of them.

2nd - They never claimed that. This is from before the launch: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-09-26-guerrilla-killzone-shadow-fall-multiplayer-runs-at-60-fps-a-lot-of-the-time. It pretty clearly states the MP as 60fps "lot of the time" (which it is). The SP was also clearly stated as 30fps..

3rd - That was a rather obvious mistake, likely based on Ubi's previous statement that it was 1080p/60fps (which Ubi later corrected).

The only thing Sony have "lied" about is that Killzone ran at native 1080p in both SP and MP, but even then the method they used is debatably still native 1080p (the image being displayed was a full 1920x1080). I'd be more inclined to say they were intentionally misleading.

A proper lie would be what Sony did back at E3 2005, or what MS did with Forza 5.



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There is no false advertising because the game is really 1080p native, most of the time.

It's in fact a dynamic resolution depending of what happens in the frame.

Someone should sue wolfestein's developers for their false native 1080p because the game has a dynamic framebuffer too.



LemonSlice said:

1080p is looking more and more like a new fascist doctrine. Soon, a 1080p Hitler will rise to power on the promise of exterminating all sub-1080p games from existence. On the other end of the world, a 480p Stalin will deem all HD games bourgeoisie.




For those interested..this includes information from the suit.   Remember that the damages are 5 million..  and that the temporal distortion story came out in march

http://kotaku.com/someones-suing-sony-because-a-ps4-game-isnt-1080p-1617200896

"2. According to Sony, Killzone was a graphically striking game set in a dystopian future that took full advantage of the PS4's advanced processing power. Sony claimed that the PS4 was so powerful that its featured Killzone video game could display "1080p" multiplayer graphics, a crowning achievement in the video game industry. 

3. However, after the game's release, gamers quickly noticed and complained that Killzone's multiplayer graphics were blurry to the point of distraction. The cause of this blurriness went unknown until a well-respected video game website reported that Killzone's multiplayer did not actually provide "1080p" graphics as advertised.

4. Following this discovery, Sony released an official statement on the matter. In it, Sony admitted that it did not in fact design Killzone to display multiplayer graphics in 1080p, but instead used a technological shortcut that was supposed to provide "subjectively similar" results."

 

"49. On or about May 3, 2014, Plaintiff Ladore purchased Killzone for $49.99 from a local Best Buy

50. Before deciding to purchase Killzone, Plaintiff visited several websites that contained the representations disseminated by Sony—i.e., that Killzone would provide native "1080p" multiplayer graphics.

51. Relying on those reports, Plaintiff chose to purchase the Killzone video game using Best Buy's "free store pickup" service. Thus, Plaintiff reserved a copy of Killzone on Best Buy's website and traveled to a local Best Buy store to complete his purchase.

52. Before completing his purchase, and while still at his local Best Buy retail store, Plaintiff examined the Killzone retail packaging and confirmed that Killzone would deliver an unrestricted 1080p graphics resolution. The relevant part of that packaging was identical to that shown in Figure 1 above. Relying on that on-box representation—which echoed the reports he had read online—Plaintiff completed his purchase and took his copy of Killzone home.

53. Plaintiff Ladore relied on Sony's on-box representation that Killzone would deliver 1080p graphics resolution. Because Plaintiff owns a television capable of rendering a 1080p resolution, Plaintiff's television was capable of rendering Killzone's graphics (in both single and multiplayer modes) at a 1080p resolution.

54. After opening Killzone's packaging (thus rendering the game un-returnable) and playing the game, Plaintiff realized that the game's multiplayer graphics were not the "1080p" graphics that Sony advertised. Instead, Plaintiff noticed that Killzone's multiplayer graphics were blurry and did not appear to be rendering at a native 1080p resolution.

55. Had Plaintiff known that Killzone's multiplayer mode was not running at a graphics resolution of 1080p, he would have not have purchased Killzone at all, or would have paid substantially less for it."



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Well that takes the 1080p discussion to the next level...



The firm (Edelson Pc) is seeking more than $5,000,000 for this. The same firm that hit Sony and EA in 2011 about the free battlefield 1943 to PS3 owners that purchased BF3 but failed to deliver the extra game. The same firm that is behind the class action suit against Sega and Gearbox that alleges the 2 companies falsely advertised Aliens Colonial Marines.

Like what ErwinMoC says, Ubisoft better get ready then