Yeah definitely. To me, the Xbox as a brand for core gamers has never been stronger. With the first Xbox, they had great games but the life cycle was short (as it kinda needed to be to make way for the 360).

The 360 started off really well but MS got lackadaisical with exclusives and focused on third party stuff as most were running better on their hardware etc.

Now, the Xbox brand has an extremely strong focus on gamers (because we forced their hand and made them realise who's boss) and they cant sit on their backsides and rely so strongly on third party titles. So the resolution stuff takes a back seat when it comes to all this for me. Others will use it as ammo in the console war but realistically there are FAR more important factors in the gaming landscape today.

900p or 1080p, blah, blah, blah....what about 60fps?. So much concern for a resolution that frankly we have seen time n time again if they slapped 1080p on a 900p game or vice versa everybody just takes it as gospel= 99% cant distinguish the difference without being told(Digital Foundry knows this but I'd take the easy hits too). More 60fps games should be a bigger priority imo since you can actually "feel" the difference there, at least with res X1 upscaling is very good outputting at 1080p, unfortunately theres no fps upscaler, fps wont improve at all unless its purposely something the devs -developed the game specifically for the higher 60fps.

Id honestly take 900p games that look as good as Ryse the rest of this gen, I mean put that game in the mall against any other 1080p game this gen both running on identical 65in hdtvs, poll 1000 folks which game is 1080p?, and how many folks would pick Ryse?...because higher res=best visuals right? Nah, Halo at 60fps proves to me how much better games can get, loved it at 30fps but 60fps is judt so sweet.

@Septic

Pretty much agree with everything you have said with the exception of resolution taking a back seat. Image quality is important to me.

I enjoyed all those comments Septic and Genuine..... wish it was always like that here.... Lets just enjoy the golden age of gaming.... regardless of what you get it on.....

Both consoles have a built in upscaler. I would rather see more ambitious texture quality and detail that taxes the system and uses the upscaler. Resolution alone is a pointless debate and shouldn't be the defining measure of videogames.

Titanfall was 792p, but the resolution didn't matter when I played the crap out of that game since launch. I got the most out of my money out of that game.

So yeah, resolution does not matter.

Think beatiful game like The Order: 1886 in 1080p (with the bar) and lots of graphic trickery to get it there (including non-interactive world), but the game is pure crap. It is literally a CGI movie.

Let the resolution debate end! Quality games FTW! :D

Titanfall was 1408x792, a resolution that's 20% higher than 720P.

@Death

I disagree, upscaled resolution affects the aliasing and sharpness of the image, How good are textures quality and detail, if the IQ will be compromised by resolution?

If it's taken a year and a half just to get devs to where they can make 1080p games on Xbox One, then that's really sad. They should have spent the last year making 1080p games even better. It just feels backward.

Rise of the tomb raider on:
Xb1 is 1080p @30fps =
Ps4 version 1080p @60fps.
Console math baby! Yeah!

REading your comment Magoo.... makes the term about the elephant in the room seem so appropriate.....

"why is 1080p a big deal all of a sudden for xbone games when xbone owners cant see the difference between 720p and 1080p anyway?"

It's only a big deal to a lot of sony fanboys typically. Which is why a lot of them keep coming into every Xbox One resolution article and asking these very questions or making it a bigger deal than it truly is. I think the stance has always been that neither side can tell a huge difference unless it goes under the magnifying glass.

Which is why we have so many people on this site who post that they will wait patiently for Digital Foundry to make the comparisons and tell them what they should see so they can then celebrate and pretend they saw everything beforehand.

"and how is getting what the competition has had since launch something to cheer when it should have been there since day dot."

Maybe because now we can finally put this Xbox One can't do 1080p to rest. Maybe now it can be finally realized that the Xbox just didn't have a proper SDK ready for developers. Maybe now we can finally focus on the games instead of if it's 1080p or not.

We have already dropped the need for 60 fps when a crowd came to terms that their console couldn't do triple A gaming at both 1080p and 60fps.

It'll be interesting when N4G starts talking about games again and these types of articles become a thing of the past.

@MRMagoo
Ha, here it is!! I was reading the comments and thought wow!! There's actually a respectful discussion going on the you show up with your fanboy, cry baby attitude. If your not gaming on X1 you shouldn't be bothered wether it's hitting 1080p or not. So get your sad pathetic fanboy dribble out of here!!!

@Death

Stop spreading that nonsense that the upscaler makes all games magically as sharp as true native 1080p resolution, it doesn't. If you upscale a SNES game it doesn't magically look as sharp as a true 1080p game. All the upscalers do is make the lower than native game fit the screen so that you don't have a big black border around the screen. It stretches, and then adds a blur filter to attempt to smooth the resulting pixelation. There are many artifacts such as blur and pixilation and loss of texture contrast/detail. Objects far away still blob out.

@RocketScience....
"I think my point was quite clear septic. Not sure what PS4 has to do with this article."

Your right PS4 has nothing to do with this article, which makes me wonder, why are you here?

"Xbone can't do it with new gen graphically intense games."

Oh. The whole time I've been playing Forza Horizon 2 with its amazing visuals, weather system and day and night cycle at 1080P native and it turns out that it's just not a graphically-intensive game, according to you. That really sucks..

Oh but wait, that's because it's cross-gen, right? Despite being a completely separate version, developed separately from the 360 by a different team, with things not possible on the 360, it's just not impressive because it's cross-gen... Gotcha! Maybe if they never released the 360 version at all, that would have been a different story altogether, right?

Always an excuse and reason with you for why something on the Xbox isn't impressive.

GTFO, troll.