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I'm going to be forced to buy a 4KTV for PS5 aren't I?
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Sticking with pc next gen until they do a discount and have a good amount of exclusive. I literally refuse to pay for online access (the thought of doing so for multiplayer absolutely infuriates me) now so all of the big three can get lost on that as far as im concerned. Ill get whatever console i want after price drops/revisions for single player exclusives. So ill most likely get a 4k monitor eventually then upgrade my tv
Sony is selling well ps4, and the 2 attempts they tried to Challenge Nintendo in the portable market they Lost.
Why they should risk things? Leave the home console market only to micro?
Maybe Sony Will do something like this, but It Will not be ps5
As long as we never get something similar to a Dead Rising unreadable text issue again then I'm riding out my current displays until they die. My TV is still only 720p and my PC monitor is 1080p. Resolution increases are the most overrated advancement there is as far as I'm concerned.
On the positive side for me if next gen games are crippling themselves to run at 4K resolutions on console and if I'm still playing the PC ports at 1080p then I should be able to go with relatively cheap hardware and still get a good framerate.
On the positive side for me if next gen games are crippling themselves to run at 4K resolutions on console and if I'm still playing the PC ports at 1080p then I should be able to go with relatively cheap hardware and still get a good framerate.
Yep. My Sam's club has really damn good LG 4K TV's with Active HDR and Local Dimming for under $1,000. A 65-inch version is $850-ish. I'm shocked at how cheap they are.
Fry's is selling a 55-inch 4K TV for $278 this weekend. They cannot possibly get any dirt-cheaper than they already are. It's hard to complain about being "forced" to buy a new TV with prices like these.
You will not be forced, however you will have to buy one to extract every little bit of your console power
Adoption rate for 4K TVs is guaranteed to reach 100% someday because you basically can't buy a 1080p TV anymore unless you're purposely shopping for one. There's no particular cost barrier between making a 1080p TV and a 4K one for the manufacturers, so they are all making 4K TVs. If you're purposely holding onto 1080p you're basically not planning on ever buying a TV again in your life and that's just silly. If you're in the market for a TV, what you see in stores now is 4K TVs.
2020 is going to be a good time to jump to 4K. The TVs will be much cheaper, and everything will (hopefully) have HDR by then.
You are not forced to do anything in your life, we have free will. If you have a 1080P tv you'll live.
I'm planning on upgrading in 2-3 years. I'll just get whatever is the best one can get with ~600 bucks, which I'm sure will be pretty nice.
We got our tv in 2012 I think. So to get 6-8 years out of a tv isn't too bad.
Just plan ahead. I put away about 10 bucks every month right now so I'll have a savings to use when it's time to upgrade.
We got our tv in 2012 I think. So to get 6-8 years out of a tv isn't too bad.
Just plan ahead. I put away about 10 bucks every month right now so I'll have a savings to use when it's time to upgrade.
OP, the biggest issue I have with the first post is that you feel a 10 year resolution cycle is short. I think it's perfectly fine to shift to 4K. With that said, 8K is a LONG way off from mainstream and the next generation of consoles will not force a move from 1080P, so you will be fine staying there for a while if you choose.
I want to get a new TV. Been wanting an OLED since I saw the LG in store whenever they first came out.
But my problem is that it feels so wasteful to throw away my old tv when my works perfectly and I know I won't really get much use out of the newer tv. My cable service doesn't even really have true 1080P let alone 4K and I don't have a BR player or even a video player to support that content. If my 10 year Samsung dies I would buy the LG in a second but until it does I can't find a real reason to upgrade.
I mean I have a 5K iMac and even that doesn't have a lot of support when it comes to media. I love it for viewing text but what else are you going to use the new TV other than games, which there are not a ton of games on console that support it yet.
I agree we will get there but to me it seems premature and also I don't see it being an upgrade most people run to.
If you want to see a bigger difference, probably.
Downsampled 4K still looks pretty nice.
I'm pretty ok with 900p, tbh.
Downsampled 4K still looks pretty nice.
I'm pretty ok with 900p, tbh.
You had two generations(360/ps3 and xbox one/ps4) of 720-1080p. Is PS5 "requiring" a 4k TV that much of a reach?
1080p needed to die long before now. It's sad consoles and television are still catching up to 20 year old PC tech.
But no, you'll still be allowed to use your 1080p set for the forseeable future, even if it is holding progress hostage.
But no, you'll still be allowed to use your 1080p set for the forseeable future, even if it is holding progress hostage.
OP, you're worrying about nothing.. you're 1080P set will be fine.
Nah get that bs outta here, no playstation fan wants some hybrid machine.
At some point resolution will match the human eye. So this won't last forever. I'm more concerned about forcing VR.
you arn't being forced to buy anything. I dont game on pc very much. I mainly play games like starcraft 2 wow etc on there. I play on a 720 p screen because I haven't cared about updating my monitor. my choice
Not true. I do. Although I know Sony won't do it. (At least for PS5, maybe by PS6 they and the industry will have changed enough that it's possible.)
I don't think so. You will likely miss out on a lot of benefits but I imagine it would be PS3 like. Works on last gen TV format but better on current gen.
PS3: Regular A/V + HD
PS5: HD and UHD
PS3: Regular A/V + HD
PS5: HD and UHD
He's right with regard to adaption rate of new TVs. Even today only super low cost TVs don't offer 4K resolution, it has pretty much become the standard for any TV bigger than 40 inches.
You're probably right however with 4K TV penetration in households. In May 2017 for example only 16% of US households owned a 4K TV set, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
Unless you feel compelled to play on a higher resolution display, no one's forcing you to do anything. Unless they somehow change the input format for next gen, which is very unlikely.
Plenty of folks are still gaming on 1080p displays. Although 4k is most likely going to be the standard, with more people having made the jump by then due to more and more units become cheaper.
Plenty of folks are still gaming on 1080p displays. Although 4k is most likely going to be the standard, with more people having made the jump by then due to more and more units become cheaper.
One playstation will one day and it will be the PlayStation VR Portable.
No, I don't think you'll be forced to upgrade, OP. These newer consoles will still have support for your TV and HDMI cables (Sony and MS would be very foolish to cut off support for any type of HDTV really). Also, as I understand it (I don't have a 4K TV) the jump from 1080p to 2160p is much smaller (or at least, less noticeable) than the jump from 480i/p to 720p. That was the single biggest leap we've ever had, and the drastic increase in resolution (not to mention the 16:9 aspect ratio) had a pretty dramatic impact on the playability of many games. I don't think that will be the case with 4K, honestly, and your TV might still see significant benefits like Supersampling! So yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. :)
X1 Two What is this nonsense? 1080p TV's don't die after 5 years, lol. I have a 1080p Panasonic Plasma that's still going strong over 8 years after I bought it, with the picture being as beautiful as ever! I'm personally waiting until I can get a 4K TV with similar or less input lag than my current TV (16me of lag, with no Game Mode required) and without having to ruin my picture quality with those awful looking "Game" modes, and all at an affordable price. Once that happens, I'll jump in, but in the meantime, my Panasonic Plasma is still going strong.
im thinking of updating my entire rig for when cyberpunk 2077 and Anthem hits. new tv new gaming system xbox one x. probably keep my 5.1 sound setup though.
probably get one of those samsung HDR 55 inch 4k Qled tv
probably get one of those samsung HDR 55 inch 4k Qled tv
doesn't bother me. i got a 1080p tv just after the PS3 came out and since I'm quite satisfied with my PS4 Slim then there is no need for me to get a 4K any time soon but i'll get one in time for PS5 launching.
i still have a 1080p monitor for my PC. i did buy a 1440p monitor but felt like it was a waste of money so i just downsample 1440/1800p to 1080p. 4K 60fps is still damn expensive right now. £700-800 for a 1080 Ti and even that can struggle in some games. might be tempted to jump to a 4K 60hz monitor when the new nvidia cards come out.
i still have a 1080p monitor for my PC. i did buy a 1440p monitor but felt like it was a waste of money so i just downsample 1440/1800p to 1080p. 4K 60fps is still damn expensive right now. £700-800 for a 1080 Ti and even that can struggle in some games. might be tempted to jump to a 4K 60hz monitor when the new nvidia cards come out.
While Sony sometimes make some questionable decisions around what they do/don't support, the main thing I see these days is developers having the HUD elements render in the native display resolution, but the rest of the graphics scaled appropriately according to their game engine, this should make supporting 4k/1080p/1440p and even 720p something that has little impact on them.
Personally the biggest improvement they can actually make is supporting more PC monitor resolutions, e.g. Ultra-wide etc.meaning they open the market up a little to people who play on their PC monitors.
Personally the biggest improvement they can actually make is supporting more PC monitor resolutions, e.g. Ultra-wide etc.meaning they open the market up a little to people who play on their PC monitors.
I don't think you will be forced to buy anything as 1080p is still good as ever, but to utilize it fully, you may want to.
So it is up to you.
So it is up to you.