PookaMustard: Pssht. How about 140p gaming?
But seriously, it is pointless. Impressive, but pointless. If 8K gaming is pricy, 12K gaming is even moreso out of the question. It's a good thing that resolutions are a preference rather than something functional.
Yeah this is sorta where I just shake my head and say it's all too ridiculous.
There were tons of great games coming out in
SD before the switch to
HD. The push hs since seen a sharp decline in good games and a huge increase in ports with marginal changes in graphics.
I just don't see the point. Other than being able to not require
AA at all, I don't see otherwise how such high resolutions really are going to help, not to mention each time you bump up you require something like 8x the processing power as before. And more or less, only the top gaming rigs could probably support half of it anyways, so we're probably looking at games that are going to go from 50Gb to 300Gb.
So I don't see the point.
timppu: I don't understand 4k for anything at this point. For people with 4k TVs, what content exactly are you watching at that resolution? Are there already lots of 4K movies on Bluray discs or such, is Netflix showing lots of 4K movies and TV series (how fast and reliable internet connection does it need for streaming those without hiccups and visual artifacts) etc.?
Good question... While original film can be rescanned at higher resolution to get you a 4k or sharper experience, it tends to just show off more and more flaws rather than being better.
Also apparently when going to the switch to digital recording, most only go to a 2k resolution, so it will have to be upscaled, and most movies that make special effects only go to a 2-2.5k mastering or something in that area. This means unless they take the time to remaster movies at even higher resolution, that it's pointless, possibly too much time, or using algorithms to filters like bicubic in order to fill the gaps and give a higher resolution feel. While you can double a resolution that way and more or less not notice, I wouldn't want to go any further than that.