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Landguy said:
sabvre42 said:

Hehe... streaming a less capable device to a more capable device. Brilliant.

 

To bad it can't accelerate the graphics to not be 720/900p.


I agree, it sucks that the consoles are so wee=ak that they don't offer 1080p/60 on every single game.  THey should have had 4k/120 for this generation to be considered a great machine.  That way the machines would have been a little more future proof beyond 2-3 years from launch.

I assume you're joking? For the PS4 and X1 to be capable of running games at 4k/120fps (without them looking rather ugly) they'd have to cost a lot. For reference, that's an almost 110,000% performance increase over the 7th gen's 720p/30fps. There's not much point in making a console so 'future proof' that it becomes almost completely irrelevant to the average consumer for several years after releasing :p

Passed that though, 60fps not being a universal standard is down to developers, not the consoles themselves. That 30fps has remained a common frame-rate through the 5th, 6th, 7th, and now 8th generation should be all the proof needed of that. This will likely remain the case until consoles become capable of stuff so expensive to produce that 30fps loses its usefulness (or if 60fps ever becomes a selling point to the average consumer).



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Oooh, i'm really looking forward to this!



Its a sign of things to come. I actually like the further integration into other devices for the Xbox One. It seems way more natural than being a standalone console.



Zekkyou said:
Landguy said:


I agree, it sucks that the consoles are so wee=ak that they don't offer 1080p/60 on every single game.  THey should have had 4k/120 for this generation to be considered a great machine.  That way the machines would have been a little more future proof beyond 2-3 years from launch.

I assume you're joking? For the PS4 and X1 to be capable of running games at 4k/120fps (without them looking rather ugly) they'd have to cost a lot. For reference, that's an almost 110,000% performance increase over the 7th gen's 720p/30fps. There's not much point in making a console so 'future proof' that it becomes almost completely irrelevant to the average consumer for several years after releasing :p

Passed that though, 60fps not being a universal standard is down to developers, not the consoles themselves. That 30fps has remained a common frame-rate through the 5th, 6th, 7th, and now 8th generation should be all the proof needed of that. This will likely remain the case until consoles become capable of stuff so expensive to produce that 30fps loses its usefulness (or if 60fps ever becomes a selling point to the average consumer).

Mostly agree with you.  Just like 30fps is "acceptable" when convenient, 900p is "acceptable" in almost any case for the majority of TV owners.  IF we reference the post the I replied to, it indicated that it must be 1080p or it must be bad.  

So, my point was really that unless you are going to go and make a truely substantial upgrade to the consoles, these minor differences in the consoles are just that.  Sure, the consoles would have been $800+ a piece to get to what I described, but that wasn't my point.



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Landguy said:

Mostly agree with you.  Just like 30fps is "acceptable" when convenient, 900p is "acceptable" in almost any case for the majority of TV owners.  IF we reference the post the I replied to, it indicated that it must be 1080p or it must be bad.  

So, my point was really that unless you are going to go and make a truely substantial upgrade to the consoles, these minor differences in the consoles are just that.  Sure, the consoles would have been $800+ a piece to get to what I described, but that wasn't my point.

His comment was unnecessarily hostile, but i don't think he was saying 720p and 900p make a game inherently bad (and i doubt you'd find any but a tiny minority that actually believe that). 

There's nothing wrong with someone putting value in something like 1080p (or 60fps, better graphics, etc). Something's inability to hit an extreme target doesn't mean someone isn't aloud expectations for it (nor should we criticize them for that, even if it's not something we personally care about). We don't live in a game of all or nothing :p



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Landguy said:
sabvre42 said:

Hehe... streaming a less capable device to a more capable device. Brilliant.

 

To bad it can't accelerate the graphics to not be 720/900p.


I agree, it sucks that the consoles are so wee=ak that they don't offer 1080p/60 on every single game.  THey should have had 4k/120 for this generation to be considered a great machine.  That way the machines would have been a little more future proof beyond 2-3 years from launch.

Graphic and resolution doesn't make a good game. You really think that 720P on Xbox is more fun on PS4 because it's 1080P?? 



I hope you can start the stream just from the PC. I would hate having to go to the Xbox one especially if someone is using the TV.



I just hope that if you are streaming a game on the Xbox One to the PC that a person can still use the Xbox One for something like Netflix. I don't want it to be were the Xbox One is locked into just the streaming and cant do anything else.



Vasto said:
I just hope that if you are streaming a game on the Xbox One to the PC that a person can still use the Xbox One for something like Netflix. I don't want it to be were the Xbox One is locked into just the streaming and cant do anything else.

That would definitely be cool. Being able to free up the TV for someone else already makes it a useful feature, but dual usage of the X1 could be a nice selling point for some.



shikamaru317 said:
Hopefully it won't take them long to implement the opposite, I want to be able to stream PC games to Xbox One as well.

Why on earth would they do that? Kinda defeats the purpose of wanting people to buy Xb one games, which gets MS a heckuva lot more revenue than PC game sales. Streaming Apps from PC to Xb one makes sense since those Apps aren't cramping Xb one's style. Streaming PC games to Xb one definitely cramps Xb one's style.



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