By Eric Kain "Call it what you will: Resolution-gate; the Great Console War of 2013/2014; bloody nonsense.
Whatever you call it, I’ve decided that the entire fiasco over the disparate resolutions in cross-platform games on Xbox One and PS4 is pretty much entirely unimportant."
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Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.
Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.
Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.
Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.
It does matter. Especially if the more expensive console is the weaker one. And let's be honest, if the One was the... one whose 3rd party games have the better resolution, MS fans would be all over the place. Also, most of the people that suddenly don't care about resolution are the ones who used to make fun of PS3 users saying that COD looked better on the 360
This resolution thing is getting tiresome. It's true that resolution matters, but there is at least 5 articles per day at N4G about it.
The title should read! "Why Resolution doesn't matter now!", because now it has a damaging effect to the "Ego" of certain individuals, who know who they are, because right now their heads have taken on the shape of deflated balloons.
Last gen it was coupled with dropped frame rates the talk of the town! The life of the party! And the Butt of many a jokes for those who were deemed unfortunate enough to support/own the console that was repeatedly cursed with this unsightly malady! New this affliction has mutated beyond what its effect caused last gen, with more pronounced symptoms and extreme discomfort. My advice, perhaps it's time to see a specialist!
Now it doesn't matter but last generation it was beaten to death PS3 VS 360 sorry it does matter PS4 is 100$ cheaper with superior hardware the sales speak for them self.
Resolution is but one piece of the overall puzzle. Sure a better resolution helps, but I have played amazing games on previous generation hardware that still played and looked great, even if it was only 720p. There is no reason why a game that is running at say 720 or 900p can't still be a great game. I would rather have a slightly lower resolution with a rock solid framerate over a few extra thousand pixels.
So while it does help that the PS4 can do more with what they have, it's the exclusives that are going to convince a person to go one way or the other.