I've only played the beta on PS4, but imo this is the best looking game I've ever played on console (even at 900p).  The game is so visually immersive, I really have nothing I could complain about.  Am I the only one that thinks this?  It's looks like the game is straight out of a star wars movie.

totally agree, it's pretty amazing looking

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Looking at Dice, they haven't really shown any signs of pressure to do 1080p on either console.  What they have done however is made real strides in performance on both consoles.  

I know that Dice hasn't since BF4 is the same situation. But when a game comes out 1080p with massive framerate drops, it's obvious that 1080p was the focus instead of performance. It needs to stop being the case.

Do you mean like Fallout 4?  Well, I think that the problem with that game is that its using a last gen engine period that hasn't been updated in quite some time.  Still, looking at Fallout's sales, you have to wonder if they felt the need to spend the money?

And yet sub-1080p games seem to have performance issues just as often. If you don't personally put any value in IQ then that's completely fine, but pointing your finger at it and going 'booo, i don't care about this specific variable so it must be worse than all the others!' is just silly. When a game has performance issues, it's a collective balancing and optimization issue. Sometimes an IQ cut is correct, and other times it's not even relevant (such as with fallout 4).

So, what do we know? 8th gen consoles can't do 1080p / 60fps if you are trying to push the graphics envelope.

So, when a developer comes out and says "Our AAA game will be 1080p/60fps on console(s)" what should we be thinking? Hmmm, this game isn't going to look all that good because they've made a lot of sacrifices to get to those numbers.

Well 1080p/60 fps can still look really good or even great. I mean Forza 5 is amongst the best looking games doing on X1 doing it. PS4 games like Metro, Advanced Warfare, and MGSV look great as well.

At the very least, I'm glad 1080p/60 fps games can still look vastly superior than last gen's best looking titles.

I was really disappointed when I clicked on that. I know YouTube does a bunch of compression, but it looked bad!

(Then I realized I was looking at 540p at 30 FPS- ha ha)

But when I went to 720p60 it looks pretty nice. Still some compression and probably looks better in real life.

I know 720p is disappointing, but it does upscale nicely.

It will only get worse with time... as games get more advanced graphically I expect even the PS4 to start doing 900p on 30fps games and the XB1 to do 720p with these 30fps.

At least in this case the game is almost a solid 60fps.