Xbox One S will upscale all games to 4K, Microsoft confirms
Microsoft has confirmed the Xbox One S will not only upscale games to 4K, but all games released can be enjoyed in 4K.
When we first learned about the Xbox One S at E3 2016, we knew Microsoft’s latest iteration of its Xbox One would support 4K gaming. While we assumed this meant developers could push the hardware to deliver 4K gaming from now on, it turns out previously-released Xbox One titles will also benefit from 4K support.
According to partner director of program management, Mike Ybarra, the Xbox One S will have the capability to upscale all games released on the platform to 4K. The confirmation comes from a series of tweets Ybarra traded with one Twitter user.
@StuDelube @Nugggzy All.
— Mike Ybarra (@XboxQwik) July 1, 2016
This confirmation is surprising to hear considering Microsoft made no mention of this killer feature during its E3 2016 press conference. Being able to upscale all games on the Xbox One to 4K will make early 4K adopters happy to finally get some good use out of the upcoming console. Although for the majority of us that have waited to buy a 4K TV, it looks like 2016 is the year we all might finally have to cave in.
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This gets rid of the processing delay on the TV side and will help ensure that audio and video will be closer "in sync" on 4K TV's. I've been doing a lot of testing on HDMI-in on 4K TV's and have seen that in some cases, a non-4K signal can have up to 70ms of A/V disconnect added by the TV.
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I have a question. Why are Sony and MS so concerned with 4k gaming? Is it to accommodate VR? I ask because I if it's just to have a higher resolution for the sake of having it,then I say they are,and always have been focusing on the wrong thing as I would rather have ALL of my games running at a locked 60 fps,even if that means 720p.
When I look at the differences between PC and console gaming,the very first thing I notice is the framerate. For the life of me I can't understand why console devs aren't more concerned about fps than resolution.Some games would greatly benefit more from higher framerates than higher resolution.-
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MSFT since the 360 has put in very good upscalers in their systems.
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yup most don't give a shit as long as it doesn't become unplayable... which is usually > 24fps
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Yes, but likely only hdr10 not dolby vision: http://windowsreport.com/xbox-one-s-hdr-support-hdr10-standard/
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Both need the hardware to support dolby vision (EDR Decoder). You are correct that no UHD blu-ray player supports dolby vision yet, but movies will start to feature it starting with a few universal, but they need players that support it first. The base layer must be HDR10, so these discs will still be compatible with that.
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uh, can we focus on 60FPS 1080P first?
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i seriously doubt any game console will ever target more than the 20-30 fps mark. the problem is you cant really advertise 60fps, but you can advertise a million godamn particles effects, stupid film-effect shaders, and extreme closeups of a polygonal celebrity you somehow swindled to be the "star" of your game.
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i know :/ but the rare games that are 60FPS on consoles are a joy to play. and to me, the graphics in halo 5 or forza 6 or last of us remastered are plenty nice.
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it's been done, though. personally i'd prefer it over fancy graphics in certain games.
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Long term what I think what we will see down the road is Freesync enter the console scene via AMD. It will be for the best since freesync and gysnc sport minimum refresh rates before it actually starts to appear crappy. I have the ROG 279Q and ~40 FPS feels like 60'ish fps. When she drops to around 35 fps it's like a light switch that turns off and it feels like 35 fps.
This is still one of the best videos explaining the tech.
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I'm not sure this will ever get through the shack/neogaf's skulls.
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My skull is pretty porous. I am not one of the delusional who wish for DOOM and Witcher 3 graphics at 60FPS. I would personally prefer toned-down visuals at 60. I know this isn't going to happen and most console owners are fine with 30FPS and fancy visuals.
But a boy can dream.
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Huh this is really interesting, and also seems like s a massive indication that Scorpio is really going to be pushing 4K gaming.
This will give the illusion that the regular XB1's are sort of similar to Scorpio's 4K gaming and both platforms do 4K.
Very cool, this is good news and make me think Scorpio is going to be a beast, I can't wait.
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Hmm, so for games that ran at a weird internal resolution, like Titanfall at 792p or whatever, will they upscale to 1080p then to 2160p, or will they upscale straight to 2160p. I feel like the latter, even though it's the better solution, would require a patch from the developer.
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With 4k you approach a no jaggie zone which produces interesting results with picture quality.
http://deadendthrills.com/
This guy does a lot of custom obscene resolutions, but the results are amazing so I can understand the push for higher resolutions even in old games.
http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/DET3/alienisolation/large/thehitcher.png
http://barbarella.deadendthrills.com/imagestore/DET3/darksouls/large/bugzilla.png -
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