Thomas Ellis of Gamer Attitude feels we won't have the same massive graphical leap as last time until Ultra HD becomes the new standard.
"The Jyväskylä-based (Finland) indie games developer Act Normal Games today announced with great delight and thrill that their isometric post-apocalyptic point-and-click adventure “Rauniot“, is now available PC (via Steam, GOG, and GMG." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
The game, which has launched in early access, has been in development for years with more than 3,000,000 wishlists on Steam.
"The Spain-based indie games publisher Firenut Games and Granada-based (Spain) indie games developer Trigger the Monster, today announced with great joy and thrill that their dark fantasy adventure/management game “Search of Light” (AKA SOL), is now available for PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Got a 4K TV for my PC and the image quality difference between 1080p and 4K is just huge, everything just looks so perfect and smooth and the high resolution textures in games just look incredibly detailed.
I'm no expert but from what I can gather, to push the resolution in games on PC beyond 1080p and keeping decent frames per second requires quite a powerful GPU and in some cases would require multiple GPUs to keep performance at acceptable levels.
Sadly, I don't think Xbox One or PS4 will be able to accomplish this unless the games are tailored specifically to run at this resolution which I suspect would mean compromises being made with the details. I am going to go out on a limb and guess that it will be the next Xbox and Playstation consoles that will include output options in UHD as standard.
One thing that is going to hold Ultra HD back is TV not jumping onto it as streaming that content would be difficult. The consoles are never going to be able to do this Ultra definition anyway but that isn't going to matter if Ultra HD TV sets stay at the high price. They are going to stay at the high price for a lot longer if TV doesn't jump onto the bandwagon. 1080p is cheap and enough to watch TV so the majority of consumer just won't jump across (which then means the manufacturers have to keep Ultra HD sets at high prices because they won't be moving lots).
Better luck next gen
NO. It will not give us anything but remakes of The Last of Us. ONLY FOR THE PS5!