With the upcoming XBox Series X and PS5 the question is what is the best resolution monitor for all your games. Integer scaling is the standard for scaling to get that ultra crisp look, having non integer scaling introduces either blurring or other scaling artifacts including shimmer during scrolling content. People might say well 4K it is divisible by 240, 720 and 1080 and while for HD video and HD games that may be fine gaming wise it misses some of the most important resolutions 480. 480i /p was the the mainstay of gaming from the Dreamcast to OG XBox it was the resolution of the VGA standard for PC gaming and has it's importance in both console, computer and arcade!
So what resolution would unite all the main resolutions? ... The answer is 1440p. 1440p can integer scale from 120p, 160p, 240p, 360p, 480p and HD 720p. This will cover you from the Atari 2600 to the XBox 360/PS3 era where most of the games were designed for 720p native. What about the modern consoles you ask, well The XBox One X has the majority of games outputting to 1440 native or can downsample from 4K. The PS4 pro has many games rendering at 1440p native but they don't natively support this resolution output but this can be fixed with a software update or possibly the PS5. PC Gaming currently has 1440p as the sweet spot as it is the resolution that can target higher FPS / refresh rates above 60hz while giving you a noticeable increase in resolution without being too taxing on your GPU.
So how do you get 1440p with classic games, the answer so far is target 720p and hope the screen has a decent integer scale aware scaler. That being said the upcoming OSSC pro will have the power to target native 1440p as well as the MiSTer FPGA system can output to even higher resolutions though you might have to put in custom video modes in it's settings file.
What about 1080 you may ask? What about 1080, in console use by the time it was relevant and supported people moved on to higher resolutions it wasn't till the current console generation that 1080 was even decently supported. Before then only 1080i was supported and who really wants a degenerate interlaced signal anyway. Most people will not even notice any real difference between 720p and 1080i besides the lack of interlacing artifacts. Given the support and target towards 1440p on modern pro version systems it seems to be the ideal gaming resolution. Now movie wise 4K monitors all the way but gaming wise from PC to Arcade to Retro 1440p will be the holy grail of gaming resolutions.
What are your thoughts on this? Comment with your thoughts and suggestions and what do you think?
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