It's not just resolution; also texture quality, lighting/shading techniques, stuff like that. 

I'd guess those are pics from the PC build. I don't think they have released console screens yet.

I pick XCX because of art design and world design is also very vertical plus mech. I have played many games with a realistic setting in fantasy games. Been there done that and yes I will likely play TW3 but XCX created a new and unique world. I rather play thatif I choice between the 2 worlds.

Funnily enough, it's the massive open areas that have been upgraded since the early trailers, while this comparatively limited indoors scene has been cut back.

Yeah, looks like a downgrade there. From what I`ve been seeing so far all this time. I don`t really mind. These things tend to happen.

I'm no graphics expert but at first glance it definitely looks downgraded, the floor texture is particularly ugly XD but not like I'll be looking to the floor all the time. I'm not very picky when it comes to graphics so I don't mind it that much and I think the art direction in the environments is great.

I do a downgrade in the lighting and textures, but so long as the gameplay is good, I don't mind it not exactly looking a little less shiny. The fact is more often or not the prettiest game isn't always the best or most fun one. So if they had to pull back on some graphical touches to get as much or more of what they are promising to fit with hopefully as few glitches as possible, then it was the right call.

But only this one scenes for some reason.  Other interiors throughout look as good as ever.  The interiors you see when talking about multiplayer and doll insurance look very sharp.  Which is why I think this was a graphical hicup and video editors didn't catch it and re-record the scene with textures loaded in.  I've seen similar glitches in Skyrim where the distant textures don't unload and/or the up close textures don't load in for several seconds, resulting in really bad textures.

Yeah, it's common in a lot of modern games actually, delays in asset streaming causing PS2-like placeholder textures to remain in place for several seconds before the full resolution ones are loaded in to replace them. We very clearly see this in the second shot of the  clip, where the gun on the character's back snaps from a jaggy mess to HD quallity from 0:09 to 0:11.

This actually makes a lot of sense given that they just announced it will be the first Wii U game to use hard drive installs to assist in loading.

Textures and geometry have been bumped up on the exterior of NLA and in the surrounding fields.

I dunno if its just me, but these types of threads seem to attract more attention than actual news for XCX... :'-(