What I don't get is, how is it supposed to take back the us, when it fails to outsell the ps4 in the us consistently?

Resolution increases the detail, greater detail means more stuff can be drawn in the distance, seeing farther into the distance is better for snipers, thus resolution is a significant improvement to the gameplay of Snipers. I didn't say framerate wasn't important.

This isn't a matter of whether something is sharp or blurry to you, that's only deals with the perception of resolution not its physical capabilities and limitations.

720p is less pixels than 1080p, it is physically impossible for 720p to show as much detail as 1080p. This is the reason for sharp/blurrieness, its the amount of detail that can be shown + the amount of detail you percieve. Detail is increased, detail improves gameplay, especially to the Sniper which is dependent on detail.

This is fact. 

This is why gamers don't compromise on framerate and resolution unless they have to, forget your opinions about the average person, its worthless here. 

Furthermore, because detail is increased Draw Distance is increased as well, an enemy to far to be seen in 720p reso still has a ways to go before 1080p can no longer draw him.

Again, this exagerates the impact of 720p to 1080p. Moving from 480p to 720p when it comes to seeing into the distance. If you can see an enemy in the distance of 1080p, you can see that same enemy in 720p.

The detail of 1080p over 720p has little impact on gameplay. That's my frustration with so many games sacrificing 60 fps for 1080p. Especially when it comes to games that don't require you to see far into the distance for sniping tiny enemies.

Many gamers compromise on resolution for frame rate. You're just wrong there.

Draw distance and resolution aren't the same thing. Draw distance and resolution are different settings. In 1080p, the object in the distance is just sharper.

I'm hoping single player is good, because i've not enjoyed the games since World at War... or something like that.

As for Bigfoot...you crazy... yeah I expect COD to sell well to XBO owners, I think we've seen shooters do well on XBO like Destiny, but ultimately the PS4 version will probably have longer legs and a bigger software sales across games.

November could be close, but I am really expecting the PS4 to sell bucket loads, and WW, it's going to be a masacre.

wow that is a big step from ghosts, although that game sucked so i guess it didn't really matter, I actually expect AW to deliver a great experience.

"It's an interesting situation considering that while the smoother frame-rate clearly benefits gameplay on the Xbox One, the resolution deficit makes it harder to consistently pick out enemies from a distance compared to the PS4 version - something that is also worth bearing in mind."

Resolution in this case affect gameplay.

yeap 900p or better 1080p makes the aim better and more accurate at mid-long ranges.

That quote has nothing to do with sniping. Slap on a scoped weapon and you'll be able to see enemies at a distance just fine.

There might (maybe) be a point to resolution affecting sniping if you're talking about a game like maybe Sniper Elite, where you can see a grenade on the hip of an enemy from afar and shoot it to blow it up. You might (maybe) lose some of the detail on that with less resolution. But in a game like Ghost where they are like 2 hit boxes for snipers (one is head, the other is everywhere else) it really doesn't matter.

It's like we haven't been using sniper rifles in console games for decades or something. As long as the games have equal draw distance, resolution is irrelevant.

Well this thread is pretty terrible. Will have to go through again, but there's been a lot of bad comments here. I know that the forums are better than this so let's show that's the case.

With each new release, COD gets even more and more casual friendly. At this point, with killstreaks such as ironman suits and seeing people thru walls, the developers made sure than even the biggest scrub that has ever touched a controller can dominate the game. Absolutely zero skill required

You are using heresay to backup your claims, I'm telling you what gamers "say" doesn't even matter. Only you have suggested sacrificing framerate for resolution, which is what you keep assuming to counter my argument. Newsflash, I never said A. frame rate wasn't important and b. framerate is less important than resolution.

It is clear you do not understand the terms I am using so I will define them for you.

Resolution - The amount of pixels that can be rendered per frame on the display. The more pixels you display the more detail of a scene you can show. This is fact.

Draw Distance - The distance from the observer position that objects are not culled from the rendering process. If an object is outside of the draw distance then the observer cannot see it.

Resolution isn't simply about whether or not something is sharper, that is completely naive and unaware of how games even work.

If you don't have enough pixels there is a limit to the detail that can be drawn and that limit decreases the amount of things that will appear distinct in the distance. You can increase draw distance past the limit of detail you can render but it is a complete waste of resources because the viewer cannot see them.