I have a feeling that it has an internal upscaler to 4K, the way a lot of X1 games are 720p or 900p but present at 1080p because of the upscaler. What I wonder is whether the level of pixels beyond 1080p present such diminishing returns that one wouldn't notice a native 1080p image upscaled to a 4K HDTV, or worse that artificially quadrupling the number of pixels from 1080 to 4K will present a ton of artifacts in a worse way than the 720p-1080p upscaler does. Add in some of that vaseline "next-gen" depth of field, motion blur, chromatic abberation, and FXAA on a 4X upscaled image and you have yourself a horrible way of showing off your new 4K TV to your friends.ffronw said:
OT: So it sounds like I can pick up an RX 480 8GB for $225 and be on the curve 18 months from now, which is great to hear and much appreciated AMD.
Edit: And yeah I can see this pissing a lot of people off, I remember the 32X back in the day, but at least in this case the "32X" equivalent is suppposed to work on the original X1, so what's the point? You can't have bigger worlds or more advanced AI or make a generational leap in gaming because this isn't a generational leap and isn't being advertised as one. So if you don't get one you'll be like those poor sods playing Perfect Dark on the N64 back in the day without the expansion pak, missing 70% of the features or fidelity.
I can see how their hands are tied, but they shot themselves in the foot. The PS360 gen had run on for far too long, but they wussed out on the specs because of the doom and gloom for consoles in 2011-2012 and the future being mobile/handheld/PC or whatever. So those millions of people who bought a PS4/X1 got to play proper versions of some of their favorite games from the last gen (Last of Us, Master Chief Collection, GTA V, Diablo 3, Tomb Raider, Dark Souls 2) and games that could have still been played if they held on (Dragon Age:Inquisition, Shadow of Mordor, Alien Isolation, Destiny). NONE of those 10 games require an 8th gen console (unless you want all your Halo shoved together and kind of broke). So is this the 8th 1/2 gen? Are they just really easier PCs now and there aren't gens? I guess I'm glad I got to play Bloodborne when I did, but if I could have saved my money and gotten to play it on a better machine without horrific frametimes I would have done it in hindsight, so I guess I'm a little pissed too, and I primarily game on PC.
