4K Support : could it have a influence on which Next Gen Console you buy?

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4k will not be an influence towards my purchases, it will simply be a benefit if there is support for it and I own a 4k set down the road. It's certainly not in my purchasing plans but you never know what technology will bring in the next 5 years.
 
onQ123 said:
& on a weird but true note could it also influence you to buy the console without 4K support because you feel like you will not be able to enjoy the 4K Console to it's fullest potential because you don't plan to buy a 4K TV so you would rather have the console that you can enjoy to it's fullest potential?
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I will say that I was reluctant to buy into an Xbox 360 until I'd upgraded to an HD television. That said, it was very apparent that games were being pitched *as* HD, a lot of the promotion was heavily implying that SD was an inferior experience (and indeed some of the less controlled news reports - Dead Rising's text, anyone?)

I doubt that even if the consoles were to support 4k that the games would be designed around 4k, so it'd be more of a phantom worry.
 
Team Klimt said:
If you're in the market for a 4K TV, lets face it, you're loaded. An extra $400 for another console ain't shit. No decision to be made really.
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True story.

Considering i just upgraded to 2560x1440 im not looking forward to buying a 4K screen anytime soon.
And definitely not to play PS4 games at 1080 upscaled.
Native, 4K games......not at launch so no rush.
 
GavinGT said:
Yeah, that sounds like a blast. I might as well go stare into the sun for hours on end.
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Hahahahaha. Good show:)

As for an answer. No it won't make a difference. It actually will sour me a bit if either company pretends its a big deal and the general bullshit becomes a crescendo with 4k being a driving force as its most assuredly not nor can it be, in a technical sense, with those systems and true games at that native res.
 
Snakeyes said:
By the way, is AA necessary at "retina" resolutions?
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Retina resolutions at "recommended" distance not really.
But AA is always nice, always always nice.
iceatcs said:
Is it PC ready for 4K now?
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PCs can do 4K right now, theres people with 4K monitors fucking around with BF3 and all but doing 4K at decent frames takes a lot of horsepower, the average gaming rig probably isnt ready for 4K gaming.
Definitely not with all the bells and whistles.
 
Sky Chief said:
That's exactly my setup. Why do you think that would be uncomfortable?
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So you have about 3 feet between your TV and the front of your couch? That's hardly enough room to walk around, much less stick a coffee table.

I'd really love to see a picture of your setup.
 
Man-is-Obsolete said:
Bingo, everyone here should want a console powerful enough to support 4K, as it would mean more games at 1080p 60fps
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It doesn't take power to support high resolutions, just storage and connections; it doesn't mean that they'd have the power to take *advantage* of those resolutions.
 
Snakeyes said:
By the way, is AA necessary at "retina" resolutions?
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Yes, because while you can't see individual pixels or steps, our eyes are able to see aliasing when the edges of an object move.
Also the term "retina" is pretty iffy to use in this case. Any TV viewed in its proper viewing distance should be "retina"
 
It'll be like this generation's support of 1080p (rendered at 720p, upscaled from that point). The next gen games will be rendered at 1080p and upscaled to 4k.
 
If the console can support 4K just for media. I think I won't care until 4K TV on the reasonable price.

So no influence to me to choose which console first, but 4K gaming - maybe.
 
More like the other way around: next gen consoles supporting 4K would make me want a 4K TV (which admittedly is exactly what Sony wants). I'm not particularly concerned about owning a 4K TV, if anything I'm more interested in seeing that resolution come to computer monitors. I'd get way more mileage out of it for general computing uses than just TV watching and games.
They'd also be a lot cheaper than 4K TVs.
 
Nope. 4k for gaming is a huge digression, and quite frankly it's "GPU power down the drain". You could almost say (not quite, but to make a point) that with 4k resolution games would look the same as they do today - just in higher res..
 
Who cares if it's 4k when everything drops to a fraction of that when it moves. I won't game on an lcd regardless of the static resolution.
 
HDMI 1.4a can only support "quad HD" (3840x2160p) at a maximum 30hz. 4096x2160p is only supported at 24hz.

So unless there's a new revision to HDMI due soon (or next gen supports DisplayPort), then 4K gaming is not going to hit 60hz.
 
Graphics haven't nearly made the leap to require it as a selling point. Before, it was fine. ~480 to 720 at least and it was a huge shift from analog, interlaced CRTs to faster, sharper LCDs. It was a technological shift. This is just a resolution bump hardly anybody will make use of because the hardware isn't there.
 
No.

It would be a nice extra if 4K HDTVs become affordable at some point in the next few years (and only for movie playback or very simple games), but that's about it.
 
4k support next gen is most likely a video only thing. It would be an incredible waste of resources to try doing that for games.
 
GavinGT said:
So you have about 3 feet between your TV and the front of your couch? That's hardly enough room to walk around, much less stick a coffee table.

I'd really love to see a picture of your setup.
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It's not in my living room. There my couch is further away but I also have a 70" TV in there.

I play games on a 60" 1080p I have in my bedroom. I have a single chair that I set up right in front of it when I want to play games. I will post a picture when I get home.
 
I can't imagine caring much. I am excited to see how good 4K will be for movies and sports though. At the earliest I might have a 4K TV by the end of next generation.
 
Sky Chief said:
It's not in my living room. There my couch is further away but I also have a 70" TV in there.

I play games on a 60" 1080p I have in my bedroom. I have a single chair that I set up right in front of it when I want to play games. I will post a picture when I get home.
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These are what typical living rooms look like. I struggle to find a single example there in which the room is set up with proper viewing distance in mind.

And I really doubt that any significant portion of the audience puts 60" TVs in their bedrooms.
 
Consoles cant even do 60 FPS and 1080p and i doubt next-gen consoles will change it. So 4k? Haha. Not to mention 4k TVs will take a while before they even become cheap enough so a lot of people have them.

So... no.
 
Sky Chief said:
But plenty of people have 100+" projector setups.
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That's a tiny minority. I thought this thread was more so about mainstream uptake of 4k.

Sky Chief said:
People will keep going to bigger and bigger screens. I doubt in 10 years that a typical setup will look like those living rooms
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I really don't think the average screen size will continue climbing as it has in recent years. The move from SD to HD provided a tangible, affordable reason for people to adopt bigger screens, but I don't see trend just continuing unabated.
 
Maybe. Not off the bat, but depends on how VR plays out (whether or not its picked up by console gaming, or kept relatively exclusively on the PC).

4k support would provide the necessary bandwidth to do VR well as well.
 
No, but in 2005 when 1080p tv's were crazy expensive I would have said the same thing; but a few years later 1080p tv's are suddenly affordable so who knows.
 
Sky Chief said:
But plenty of people have 100+" projector setups.

People will keep going to bigger and bigger screens. I doubt in 10 years that a typical setup will look like those living rooms
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If that group is not basically everyone, then it won't support a new format.
 
4k is a waste for most televisions. We couldn't even get to 1080p this generation unless it was some sort of DLC title with graphics that weren't that taxing... and in some cases developers even struggled to get 720p. 4k is one of those technological checkmarks a company like sony will insist on pushing but nobody will really care about.
 
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