PS4 PS4 to Support 4K Resolution for Images and Video but not for Games

[David Sanchez]

Thinking of shelling out the (insane amounts of) cash for a sexy TV with 4K resolution so your PlayStation 4 games can look damn near godly? Well, you may want to rethink making such an (incredibly wild) investment solely for your gaming purposes. It turns out the PlayStation 4 will only support 4K for images and videos but not for games.

"The official answer is that the PS4 supports 4K output but for personal contents, like photos or videos.

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[Seth]

Still better then nothing I mean most games are at 720p I was not going to expect a jump past 1080p

 

[x3sphere]

I expected it, otherwise the PS4 would cost like $2000. Not even the top GPUs on the PC side can handle 4K res well, need at least 2 or 3 GPUs.

 

[Trigun]

Games are really the only thing that can truly benefit from 4k IMO. But it will be a ways off before we see that in something like a console.

And like X said, even PCs struggle with it.

On my Single GPU GTX 460 system at the very most I can get to about 3008x1692 playable on some games. But not many.