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Polish gaming site PPL reports on a recent public filing through Chinese TV and electronics manufacturer TCL. Located on a slide, this presentation is a roadmap for what TCL considers “Gen 9. 5” consoles coming in 2023 or 2024. These planned consoles, which the slide called PS5 Pro and “New Xbox Series S/X”: will be able to bring the output to a resolution of 8K and up to 120 frames per second, according to the TCL slide.
First, there’s little explanation as to why a lesser-known TV maker has leaked the first official word about upcoming console plans from Sony and Microsoft. Like GamesBeat’s Jeff Grubb, TCL can be said to speculate on console makers’ plans “because to put the data in giant letter in a scene. If the company knew what it’s talking about, then it would be under a non-disclosure agreement. “
Still, the hypothesis about a new mid-generation upgrade is rarely absolutely far-fetched. After all, 4 years after the launch of Xbox One and PS4 we saw Xbox One X and PS4 Pro, which presented their own solution problems. compared to previous consoles.
Since we’re speculating anyway, it’s worth asking the question: is there any real price on a console that can produce at 8K resolution?And will players have to transfer to an 8K-compatible TV for the foreseeable future?
The answer to this first query is largely based on the length of the screen and the viewing distance of the game settings. These variables, the “angular resolution” of an image, that is, the number of pixels that can be compressed in each degree of your vision.
A user with 20/20 vision cannot discern visual main points that measure less than 1/60 degree of angular solution in their retina. Using this heuristic, show that solutions beyond four K’s are only “worth it” for 65-inch screens and up if you’re sitting four feet or less from the screen, according to research conducted through RTINGS. com. It is quite small for maximum living rooms.
More rigorous studies on how the audience understands visual headlines also recommend limited benefits when switching from 4K to 8K displays. TechHive’s Scott Wilkinson detailed a study in 2020, a double-blind verification conducted by Warner Bros. , that asked participants to rate the relative quality of a series of movie clips rendered in 4K and 8K. This test received the effects of nearly 140 participants with varying degrees of visual acuity sitting five or nine feet from an 88-inch OLED display.
The study established a subjective scale that allowed participants to rate the other two versions of each clip: “identical” (0); “a little older” (1); “major” (2); and “much larger” (3) (if the 4K clip was judged better, the effects noticed a negative value). On average, participants rated 8K clips with just 0. 252 points higher than their 4K counterparts. While this is technically an improvement, it’s an improvement that only takes you a quarter of the way to “a little more” on the subjective scale of the exam.
In addition, a slight majority of participants who watched six of the seven clips said the two resolutions were similar; literally, they may just not notice the difference. A significant minority of participants also said the 4K symbol better, which may recommend that they guessed it.
In other words, we may eventually succeed at the point where the law of diminishing returns finally forces console and game makers to avoid looking for more and more pixels as a selling point. But that doesn’t mean there’s no place for advanced pixel densities in games. PC gamers, who sit just a foot or two away from ever-larger screens, are likely to take advantage of at least one more doubling of the linear pixel density of their screens.
And let’s not talk about virtual reality screens, which are normally located a few centimeters from the player’s eyes. Oculus discoverer Palmer Luckey told Ars in 2013 that a VR headset would have to generate an 8K “per eye” solution “to get to the point where it can’t see the pixels. And to get to the point where you can’t see any more improvements, you’ll want several times. “What does a “retinal display” look like?
Image of the ad through RTING. com
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