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Peh on 15 June 2017

This is a huge joke I have to witness in the recent days. 

The Nintendo Switch can do 720p undocked and 1080p docked. Well, not always because it has the ability to lower the resolution to keep the frames mostly at a solid level. 

The PS4 Pro was announced as a 4k home console. Well, it uses a checkerboard upscaler to reach the external output resolution of 4k. 

Xbox One X is being claimed by Microsoft as the most powerful console to date for TRUE 4k entertainment, well, it seems that some games are also being upscaled, because they can't render at a native 4k resolution.

Is this supposed to be a joke? 

No, seriously. What is going on? 

All I am reading is:

"I can do 4k"
"No, that's not REAL 4k! I can do 4K which is the TRUE 4K, OK?
"No, but you are cheating, too. You also use an upscaler for some of your games like I do."
"Shut up!"
"No, you shut up!"
"Guys, I can at least do real 1080p"
Both "No you can't". 

Sorry, but, I need to get off some steam. This is just driving me nuts.

 

 



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Peh on 15 June 2017

It's like back in the days with Nintendo vs Sega.


"I CAN DO BLAST PROCESSING!"



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xl-klaudkil on 15 June 2017

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vivster on 15 June 2017

It really is quite silly that console makers don't let us choose which resolutions we want.



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Mr Puggsly on 15 June 2017
vivster said:
It really is quite silly that console makers don't let us choose which resolutions we want.

That is evidently a choice left to developers given some games do allow that.



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vivster on 15 June 2017
Mr Puggsly said:
vivster said:
It really is quite silly that console makers don't let us choose which resolutions we want.

That is evidently a choice left to developers given some games do allow that.

It's a choice left to the developer on any platform that isn't PC, where for some reason it's magically possible to choose.



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Mr Puggsly on 15 June 2017
vivster said:
Mr Puggsly said:

That is evidently a choice left to developers given some games do allow that.

It's a choice left to the developer on any platform that isn't PC, where for some reason it's magically possible to choose.

Again, some games do let you choose. Nier for example comes to mind.

PS4 Pro titles have also allowed people to choose between resolution/graphics and performance.

You blamed the "console makers," but its the developers that choose.



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maxleresistant on 15 June 2017

Personnally, I think 720p as a handheld should be the minimum.
And 1080p minimum for a home console.

So I'll get a PS4 pro with my 4K TV and I have a PC.

But I kind of don't care for if a console can't hit 4k. It's just too expensive to do right now.



Barkley on 15 June 2017
vivster said:
Mr Puggsly said:

That is evidently a choice left to developers given some games do allow that.

It's a choice left to the developer on any platform that isn't PC, where for some reason it's magically possible to choose.

It's still a developers choice on PC, it's just they'd be beheaded if they didn't include those options on PC, and if they didn't there'd be work-arounds for it. If developers want to include resolution-options on consoles they're free to do so, they just don't bother because it's not expected.



haxxiy on 15 June 2017

The resolution of console games have always been often below TV resolution, since the NES days and before.

I think maybe the PS4 and the Wii had most of their games on their purported resolution, but besides those...