Big old uncompressed texture files, much the same reason Titanfall and BF4 need masses of VRAM despite not looking particularly jaw dropping (although BF4 on ultra certainly has it's moments).Sigmund Av Volsung said:
So one group is sick of hearing stuff they either don't care about or are sick of being let down, and the other group (well, actually many PC gamers get this too) gets another sip of the great drink of narcissism.Kenjitsuka said:I'm not, cause I have no interest in either current gen console except PC.Steven Bogos said:
I'd say only XBONE owners are sick of hearing this type of news/debate... and PS4 people probably get a smirk on every article in their favor
No, it's every news source, every forum and about half of all conversations are either about sexualization or resolutions.Denamic said:
Surprisingly, less so that I thought I would be, even though I'm still undecided as to which console to get. But then again I'm probably sickening for the good old days when a console war actually meant something and you could tell instantly tell which game a console/home computer a given title was on just from its resolution and number of colours. These days you have to wait until a QTE comes on screen.Steven Bogos said:
Really? I can understand this attitude for a racing game or even a FPS, but a mainly tactical RPG? Still, if the PS4 could do 60fps and the XBox only 30fps then that would tell us something.Revolutionary said:
Around a quarter of gamers run multi monitor setups in excess of 3840x1080, a significant number also game on the various resoloutions between 1920x1080 and full 4k with a variety of 16:10, 16.9 and newer 21:9 monitors (that are replacing traditional multiscreen setups with a single panel). The factor in all the people using downsampling (which new GPUs use natively now so while consoles are running out of pixels we have all the pixels and struggling to use them) and easily half or more of gamers are running higher native and effective resolutions than 1920x1080 and the trend is only increasing, so hold on to that false comfort that struggling to reach 1920x1080 isn't hopelessly obsolete as far as gaming is concerned.Ferisar said:Because the whole two people who can run maxed new 4k res games can feel as smug as they feel like. It doesn't mean a whole lot, hehJ Tyran said:The thing is the Lamestation 4 owners act all smug about the tiny and barely perceptible differences (especially since their displays will not be of the quality to show those differences after upscaling anyway, because you know budget-midrange TN panel TVs...) over the Xbone but they get angry and defensive the instant PC gamers point out the much more significant increases of 1440p and 4K.Kenjitsuka said:I'm not, cause I have no interest in either current gen console except PC.
I'd say only XBONE owners are sick of hearing this type of news/debate... and PS4 people probably get a smirk on every article in their favor
Pretty hilarious really.
That's only true when Bioware does good. When they mess up, it is because of EA. At least, that's the impression I get from this site's users at times.SteewpidZombie said:
4k is utterly pointless, 1080p has already hit the point of being sharp and clean, can't get much more than that. I've seen 4k and it looked the same as 1080p until I walked right upto a huge TV then I could see it had no pixelation at which point I said "So I'll never be close enough to notice the difference.J Tyran said:
You haven't seen full 4k content thats made for 4k with professional cameras or highly detailed textures built from the ground up, not being snarky here because most people haven't outside of tradeshow junkies. There are no real home sources yet and what content there is is generally just upscaled, the level of detail in genuine 4K content on a 4k panel is remarkable.RicoADF said:
We'll never need more than 256kB of memory either.RicoADF said:
Unless you have a PC, which people generally sit a lot closer to than a TV. In any case, actual visible pixelation is irrelevant, there is a huge difference in picture quality well below the level at which your eye can resolve individual pixels. I can't find the nice explanation I found before, but a simple example is a white screen with a single black line one pixel wide. If you change a single pixel in the middle of the line to white, you will see it as a grey patch even when you're too far away to actually distinguish that white pixel. For things like colour perception and aliasing, high resolution is far more important than many people seem to think; it's not a simple matter of working out the resolution of the retina (or in Apple's case famously completely failing to do so) and then never going any better than that.
We don't need them, no. However, there can really be no question that PC versions of games that allow higher resolution and various other better graphics options usually look far better than console versions, so clearly there's still plenty of room for improvement.
