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The video at the event didn't even say anything about gaming specifically, just nebulous 8K "capabilities". https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1137844761253957632

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My cynical side sees this as: "Your games still render at 1080, we scale the video up to 8K to output on your 8K screen."

Outputted to your 1080p screen 8 feet away from your head

Maybe it’s just support for 8k movies...
Who has an 8k tv anyway?

Even if the cost premium wasn’t an issue, who has the geometry in their living room to be able to take advantage of an 8k resolution? Even 4K is hard to take advantage of in a living room setting, you need a huge tv with your seating set up very close to it.

I agree. I have a 65'' and 4K is not a huge improvement over 1080p at 10 feet.
For 8K to make any sense you'd need a 100'' at least which is massive and prohibitive.
IMO HDR is a much bigger improvement than 4K.

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