While I understand that a "new generation" of consoles is a new generation, I just thought I'd post a few videos and ideas that complicate the statement that "The PS5 will support resolutions of up 4K at 120Hz, along with 8K at 60Hz." Supporting "X" and being able to actually do "X" are two different statements.
Problem 1: The previous gen. consoles: the PS4 and the Xbox One (so, precedent)
These products also had many promises attached to them, and I guess everyone here can be the judge on whether or not they came through on them, but it is a fact that these are the consoles from the prev. generation (so, the closest to the upcoming consoles). With that in mind, the videos attached below show what kind of FPS the PS4 and the Xbox One pulled while running two recent AAA titles, AC Odyssey and BFV. A PC's FPS can be seen in these videos, please ignore that for a second.
While technology is starting to get wild and the development of tech is really starting to ramp up compared to what was previously possible, no one should expect PlayStation or Microsoft to put out new consoles that are that much different from what is currently on the market.
That is, because the consoles of the current generation (the PS4 and the Xbox One) are currently struggling to put out 60, or even 30 FPS at 720 to 1080p on titles like the ones mentioned above, the chances that the next gen. consoles will do "4K at 120Hz" or "8K at 60Hz" are nearly 0.
Problem 2: Current Tech
Right, so even though I literally just said that tech is getting crazy, there still aren't many products that exist on the consumer market that can even run games like AC Odyssey, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, etc. at "4K at 120Hz" or "8K at 60Hz."
For example, this video shows that expensive AF graphics cards like the Titan RTX and RTX 2080 Ti can't even do it. They both get only just over 50 FPS at 4k. That's it. And when I say expensive, I mean expensive, considering that the Titan RTX costs $2500 and the 2080 ti costs around $1,199. YES, I understand that these both came out in 2018, but even if it has almost been 2 years, there's no way that the GPU's in the upcoming consoles will be able to do what these monsters can't, especially at a much, much lower price point.
Problem 3: Size
So, what if someone REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wanted to play video games at 8k at 60Hz? What would they have to do? Although it's not possible, Linus at Linus Tech Tips had a go at it and threw $15,000 worth of GPU's into a massive PC, hooked it up to a demo 8k TV from SHARP, and got a whopping 20 FPS average.
And yes, the PC really was MASSIVE.
So, again, if you think all that mass AND MORE (considering that PC was only able to pump out 20 FPS) is now packed into a small, easily accessible, near $600 black and white box with a PS5 logo, then I have a structure of a certain size in a specific location that I'd like for you to purchase. It's simply not feasible.
Problem 4: TV's
You may not have caught it in "Problem 3," but the TV that Linus used was something that wasn't even able to be sold yet, which brings me to the limit that TV's bring. The vast majority of them only run at a max of 60hz. So even if the PS5 was able to run something at higher than 60 FPS, the TV would effectively negate any of that increase because it would now act as a bottleneck. Yes, I know that many people use monitors to bypass this, but they are still outliers and not what the devs. have in mind.
So again, "supporting" something, vs. "actually being able to do" something are two different things. Maybe the software in the machine would support it (idk), but we're far away from anything else.
Side note: if you go to this link, scroll down to "Video resolution and features" in the graph, and look at the Xbox One, you can see it also promised "4K@60fps, 1440p@60fps (up to 120fps), 1080p@60fps (up to 120fps), 720p@60fps ." But was it really able to perform at those levels? hmmmm.
There's more to all this, but what I've put is long enough for what I'm willing or able to spout about. And that's all this is, spouting. So:
Disclaimer: I'm an idiot that's only just learning about many of these ideas. That doesn't mean what I typed out here is wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if there wasn't mistakes here and there. In addition, I can't talk about the tech of all this at a detailed level because I don't know how it works (so I didn't attempt to). Even so, I still think this info is useful.
Submitted by Zoumios | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016
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