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SvennoJ on 14 August 2014
wilco said:


It is not noticable for me. I suppose if I played the same game side by side on identical tvs I might notice some difference, but on its own its not very noticable. On paper it is a huge difference but in reality it is not easy to percieve. huge fps discrepencies and missing graphical effects/details on the other hand are very obvious, but most people focus on resolution now a days. 

I don't own an X1 so I can't say with any certainty but the conversation has been so monopolized by the resolution discussion that it would seem that resolution is the only major difference between X1 versions and PS4 versions. I think there was one game I heard about where the framerate on the X1 was much worse than the PS4. If only the resolution is different this gen then that I do not consider that as big a difference from last gen where some of the PS3 multiplats were downright sloppy... it wasn't always just graphics either. There were ps3 games that just didn't play well, were buggy or had online issues that were non-existant on the Xbox. The conversations I remember were usually more about that than resolution.

The difference between native 1:1 matching resolution and upscaling can easily be seen. Maybe your tv always scales and is not set to dot by bot or 1:1 pixel mode. Anyway how are missing effects/details very obvious without seeing them side by side? How do you know they are missing more than on another version. If there are some tufts of grass missing I wouldn't know without seeing the other version. Upscaling softness however is always visible.

Resolution was indeed not the only problem last gen, and where both consoles run at the same res the focus will again be more on fps and details.



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AZWification on 14 August 2014

There was barely any focus on a game's resolution during the last gen and I'm sad to see that it didn't stay that away for this gen!



                
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OdinHades on 14 August 2014

I was told that GTA 4 was nearly unplayable on PS3 because it ran only at 640p. Seriously, I heard that a whole friggin' lot in 2008. I told people that I still have fun playing it, but they kept saying "It's betta on XBawx, dudez!". Now the same guys say "no big deal, no big deal" when the differences are much bigger. I'm not talking about anyone on this forum (obviously, as I wasn't registered here back then) nor anyone else on the internet but about some folks I know in RL. It really got on my nerves and today I enjoy to pay it back to them every now and then. But quite honestly, I still don't care all that much. The games are still essentially the same on X1.



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