But it mattered last gen when the 360 multiplats were technically better than PS3. Why the change this gen?

Never understood the whole graphics argument thing... Seems like a minor nitpick in the grand scheme of things.

Its not the difference that bothers me. Its the fact that people have to be told first what the definition is in order to gloat. Yet the same people say its easily visible.

It matters and you know it

Smaller differences were a bigger deal last generation. What changed? Hmmm...

"The fact of the matter is that unless you have a screen that is at least 48 inches big, you’re not going to be able to notice the difference between 720p and 1080p"

Im sorry, but no.

Last gen:
Resolution mattered when the deference between the X360 and the PS3 were small,

This gen:
Resolution does not matter when the deference when between the PS4 and the X1 are bigger than last gen, what worse the people who says resolution does not matter are the same ones who loved these type of article last gen.

I think when the systems first launched it could be a big deal, but now 2 years later it's just expected and going nuts every time there's disparity is becoming ridiculous. Xbox isn't as powerful. We get it.

Lol, so basically we should still be playing 780p games on brand new hardware, lmao! The fact that you're trying to argue this is what's ridiculous!

1920x1080 vs 1600x900

close to 50% more pixels on screen

nothing matches the clarity of a 1080p image, 900p stretched to 1080p results in a blurry image

can you tell the difference when the camera zooms in. yes or no

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Of course its ridiculous.

It only matters when PC is brought up, or Xbox has the advantage.

Otherwise, it is irrelevant and beneath me as a topic.

In all seriousness, what I find ridiculous, is that the console that the least amount of gamers want and choose, during all 3 of its generations; as being spoken about so often with PS as if they are one and the same. They're not the same and there are reasons more gamers always choose PS. Resolution being the least of them.

Before everyone speculates on how I know:
from 2000-2003 I managed the team that produced repair manuals for Sony tvs. I PERSONALLY edited the electronic schematics and drew the block diagrams by hand.

The article is factually correct. I'm done.

Oh, and for those of you thinking of buying a 4k tv, unless your tv is larger than 100 inches there is no visible difference between a 4k tv and 1080p from nine feet away. Not the fault of the tv, it is PHYSICALLY impossible for the human eye to discern the difference from greater that nine feet. If you don't believe me ask the salesman before you buy it.

Nobody cares.. The resolution isnt what stops people from buying an xb1

900p is ok but 720p or dynamic scaling around 720p is a joke... Well done xbone

I find resolution gate silly, but did this guy just write that you can't see the difference between 720p and 1080p on anything less than 48"?

NOT 900p, but 720p? Following that logic, Xbox One should just about never aim for anything over 720p and lock in a very solid performance without bothering with resolution.

Yeah, this article is nonsense.

I honestly don't care about resolution gate. The difference is very small especially at normal tv viewing distance. My only problem is if it a broken/bad port like batman on PC. That would make me pissed off. That is why PS3 got bashed for early games like the orange box.

Let me put it in away everyone can understand. It takes digital foundry 1000 dollars worth of equipment to find the difference/measure the difference.

This article is stupid. As someone that owns all 3 consoles, I play my Phone the most. Mostly because of the epic free games with Gold (all Gold games can be played on the Xbone now).

More graphic options and higher resolution arenalways better. This is why Steam takes more of my money per year than all three consoles combined.

Resolution gate is right here between des nuts. They look good at 900p, but they look great at 1080p.

I dont find it rediculous. In fact i like to know these things. I prefer the better version of games. How is that hard to comprehend i dont know.

The xbox community has been nothing but a 180 turn on everything.

Nothing matters now that you are losing right?

Sales does not matters
Resolution does not matters
Indies does not matters
The rest of the world does not matters

The very same things that mattered most to them last gen, suddenly they does not matters. Amazing.

Just need to check the site the article is from and you know what's up. The article itself confirms exactly that by embracing everything that supports your argument and relativizing or denying all opposing arguments.

Lets see if I can crack this code here, an article denouncing res gate from on xbox fanboy on a clearly pro xbox website, hold on let me act surprised. LOL Of course you think its ridiculous because you're damage controlling your console of choice, if it were the other way around though we all know your article would have a much different tone. Probably something like xbox is the better console because it has the more consistent higher resolution of multiplayer games, well guess what it doesn't and its noticeable and once you guys start learning to live with it you can stop wasting your time writing these articles.

It ONLY matters when you start putting games under a microscope and/or side by side. A good example is the WiiU. For many a self-proclaimed 'hardcore' gamer the WiiU is 'underpowered', but, play its games on any modern HD TV and they both look and run exceptional.

Who honestly can play SM3DW (for example) and tell me it doesn't belong in this gens console race? Even if Nintendo is following a different path than its 'rivsls'.

I don't get the resolution thing either. The X1 is my first console since the N64 days. Before this gen I played on PC only but switched back since I wanted to game laying on the couch in my living room again, lol. So you can call me clear of previous "clashes of the fanboys".
However, I have to say that I have been surprised and shocked about the aggressive and hostile console community at the beginning of this gen.
Now I tend to ridicule those who think the resolution is as big of a deal if the differences are minute since I know, especially from my PC days, there is way more to pixel quality than resolution.
There is something to argue about if there is a severe difference on graphical effects and physics.

@fatdrinkofwater are you referring to borderlands and bayonetta?

I own both the xbox one and ps4 and play on them both regularly.

I also have a 47 inch tv and the graphical differences between both are so minor that I just don't care.

To me it looks like all these comparison articles are designed with one purpose only. They're clickbait to make money on advertising revenue by getting fanboys to read them and slag each other off in the comments sections.

Consoles are the cheap way of gaming, you don't get options and have to live with what the companies force on you (like payed multiplayer). The hardware is literally budget pc hardware. They built the cheapest pc they could and sell it as a console. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. A lot of people prefer cheaper hardware even though the visual quality of your game is gonna be worse, and that is fine.
But being sad about it afterwards is kinda hilarious. So the absolute only reason for me to buy a console are the games. The exclusive titles sell the console, end of story. If you get an xbox1 you don't care about resolution in some titles because you get to play Halo. But if you want 1080p and much more importantly good fps, you build your own gaming system.

The PS4 is simply more powerful than the Xbox One, and a substantial portion of multiplats feature better image quality and performance on PS4.

The Xbox One is still a fantastic console. I enjoy just how feature complete it is. The PS4's UI is great, but doesn't come close to Xbox One's in terms of the overall depth and feature set.

That said, it's a shame Microsoft didn't make the hardware more powerful. 900p stinks next to 1080. I compared the Destiny beta and the Black Ops 3 beta, and the BO3 beta on Xbox One looked horrendous after I switched inputs from the PS4 version. Hell, it looked lousy anyway.

Love my Xbox One, but PS4 is by far my main gaming machine.

A Xbox fan site written by a Xbox fan that is trying to delude with nonsense. If you are not a hardcore Xbox fanboy I recommend just steering clear of that site.

Yes, it doesnt matter but ps4 got more then double of gamers and is breaking record after record.

If it doesnt matter why so many news about it? Lol. What matter is dgpu , cpu, esram and cloud from day one. And the catch phrase wait for this and wait for that

If the article writer and other gamers cant see the difference on 900p vs 1080p. They need to get their eyes checked. Or their head :)

http://i.imgur.com/1QKOi8i....

Of course "resolution gate" is ridiculous. It's flat out stupid, but if anything this should force the next gen of systems to be up to par and true next gen consoles fully capable of displaying 4k resolution and 60fps standard.

Imagine that, another click-bait story.

xboxenthusiast.com... No shit.

To the people claiming 'This is ridiculous!!!This is an outrage!!!Can't we all just game?!?!?' If the XB1 was hitting 1080p more often then all of this would be non existent. Salty people will always defer to 'I dont care because I can't tell the difference anyway' if their product of choice is mostly getting outperformed resolution wise. Now. that being said. NO ONE can deny a game is still fun in 900p or 1080p if it plays the same and has all the same effects, assets, etc. So to a point saying resolution gate is ridiculous has some weight to it but in the end if the tables were turned the same people crying about how ridiculous it is would possibly be gloating about how superior their console of choice is. Crazy but true trust me cuz I am pretty crazy :o)

It does matter that ps4 ocassionally has a better resolution than the xbox one. It is still a win for the ps4 nomatter the argument.

hahahah ridiculous hahaha

it's only a demonstration of correct engine ring anda performance for future tutela.
hahahaha some people watt ( other people ) tuono it's ridicolous bus it's not the truth...

While I do prefer gameplay over graphics, I also find it odd in almost 2016 alot of multiplat games don't hit 1080p on xbone. Get with the times already

So "resolution-gate" is ridiculous, because the Xbox underperforms there? But "frame-gate" isn't?

Frame rate is way more important in most games.

I don't think it is ridiculous. If I did not own a PS4 or a XB1 and I was in the market for one. I would like to know how multiplat games run on each console. That includes FPS and resolution.

I was once a owner of both systems and yes resolution was a small factory of what version of the game I buy weather that be PS4 or XB1.

Now that I only have a PS4. Resolution means noting to me considering I only have one console. So I buy a game or I don't it is that simple.

In regards to xbox 1 vs. ps4, yeah I do think it's stupid because they can barely handle bare minimum fps. If you got a beefy pc though. It's definitely something that matters.

I agree it's annoying, but then I hear someone try to argue that the xbox one is just as strong, if not more powerful than the ps4, and I get even more annoyed.

When the 360 ran better than the PS3, it mattered.

When PS4 runs better than Xbox One, it doesn't anymore.

Gotcha.

Last gen consoles hit this amazing new high ground that a lot of people had never experienced. "GAMING IN HD" This was amazing. The clarity of seeing a console game in HD, BOOOOM minds where blown. We were playing at 720p/1080p 30/60fps(depending on the game) and we couldn't be happier. Getting close to the end of these consoles almost everyone had bought into this HD thing. For movies games watching tv 1080p is now the standard. Streaming video content over the internet in 1080p bluray movies 1080p HD tv broadcasting HD is everywhere. Now lets stop and ask our selves how important is 1080p.......not that important 1080p is standard most everyone has a tv or device that does that or better. Now we are in the next gen and 1080p 60fps cant be hit as a standard. ....WHAAAAAT.... OK so we get more things on screen and the lighting, shadows, and textures look much better but just the idea that these consoles can't keep up with the standard tv resolution and refresh rate is a shock. Makes this gen not feel like a real next gen more like a half gen jump.

I guess my point is last gen(360 PS3) brought in and pushed HD hard. With gaming and Bluray movies selling 1080p TVs like crazy and now almost a decade later we still are not getting to enjoy gaming on our aging TV sets to there full ability feels like a milking farm to me.

Resolution isnt even a factor anymore.. Everyone knows about multiplat performance & what the "go to" system is.. The exclusives are whats going to separate the two..

A better title would be: "why I piss before I shit". Seriously, NOBODY GIVES A FUCKING SHIT!!!

When you spend a gen bragging about few pixels, what would you expect if you are short of 600k pixels???

It's called boomerang effect or how to avoid spitting against the wind!!!

I disagree with this post.first of all i see the difference between the two consoles no matter what tv i play on, secondly my eyes can see the difference in resolution from a 32 inch to a 37 inch and 40+ inch tv's. The bigger the tv the more difference youll see but i do agree if you have a 55 inch or up youll have to sit far away from the set other than that the resolution starts to stretch and will have less detail detail if the screen is big(mabye at least siting at close range)

First he tells us why he choose Xbox then why resolution doesn't matter, how soon till he writes an article about how cloud powa makes the Xbone 4x more powerful than the PS4 ?

Lets get two facts out of the way:

The difference between 720 and 1080, is actually pretty massive, and unless you are looking at a very small display at 10 feet away you can tell the difference. This is less so with 900/1080, but still holds true, just to a lesser degree.

The PS4 is more powerful than the Xbox One. PCs can be several orders of magnitude more powerful than either console.

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When it comes to resolution and frame rate, the only time you should be pissed is when you only own one platform and it is cause for an objectively worse experience than the other platforms. Now if you truly do care about having the higher FPS/Resolution Then your option is the PS4, and if you want to push the envelope further then you get a PC.

IMO, People need to stop bearing the torches and pitchforks to defend their chosen platform, and just accept the truth about all this instead of bitching and moaning or gloating about it all. We're here to play games, right? Some of us can only to have one platform, no need to berate them on their choice.

I'm pretty sure the answer is that jpg + this website is how you end up with ridiculous every time.

All of thee newer Star Ocean games even though the combat (besides 5) always hit.

Playing Far Cry 5. Pretty much beaten it. Don't have any interest in the story (although some of the characters are quite memorable) but the gameplay is fun and perfect to just pick up and end up doing some random stuff.

I gave up on the story on Horizon ZD about halfway through. I have skipped every cutscene so far in Forbidden West.

I have no clue what's going on, and I don't really care either.

Game with poor story but great mechanics will always defend itself IMO. Game with poor mechanics but great story will be a drag.

MGSV The potential was all there but did little of interest. Gameplay was great and lasted me almost a year thankfully.

Zelda. Gameplay, boss fights and music are all solid. I stopped caring for the story since Majoras Mask.