John Carmack Is Down On 720p, Wants 1080p For Next-Gen Consoles

22 responses to “John Carmack Is Down On 720p, Wants 1080p For Next-Gen Consoles”

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   blaja

   December 22, 2011 at 9:59 am

   “meanwhile at the debuging of rage center”……(beeeeeeeeeeeeep)

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   JD

   December 22, 2011 at 10:15 am

   I don’t think a lack of 1080p should be Carmack’s biggest concern.

   IMO everything since Quake 1 has been a disappointment. He needs to get Romero back, neither of them can create good games without the other. The guy can do engines, and graphics, and respect for that. He doesn’t understand gameplay or atmosphere though.

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      Ad

      December 22, 2011 at 2:14 pm

      ^^ so very true

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      Richard

      December 22, 2011 at 5:05 pm

      I don’t think you guys understand, Carmack is a programmer who creates engines – he doesn’t design games.

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   Zevensoft

   December 22, 2011 at 10:16 am

   Even if consoles output to 1080p natively, most people will probably have stupid TV settings that destroy the image anyway (bad scaling, over sharpening, too much contrast, etc.)

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   James Mason

   December 22, 2011 at 10:30 am

   Carmack needs to develop the next Ultima with Lord British in space. It is the only way to save humanity.

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      Zico

      December 22, 2011 at 11:31 am

      yes

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   Martin

   December 22, 2011 at 10:33 am

   Why will it bring pixel precision back and what is pixel precision? Is he referring to memory constraints, pixel mapping or the users ability to move a sprite from one pkatform to another?

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      Nic

      December 22, 2011 at 10:48 am

      I’m thinking it’s the ability to make pixel-art graphics and interfaces, so that you know your 50×10 button will be represented by exactly 50×10 pixels on screen, removing the fuzziness of up/down scaling.

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      Morkai

      December 22, 2011 at 10:55 am

      I think (someone correct me if I’m wrong) he means pixel precision as in there’s 1920×1080 pixels available on the screen, so the source going into the screen should match 1920×1080, rather than being lower and being scaled/resampled/stretched to fit.

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   Sam

   December 22, 2011 at 10:38 am

   Agree with the guy on this, but my god I’m sick of hearing about ‘things John Carmack said.’ The guy was relevant for the early Doom/Quake era and since then hasn’t been in the slightest, I wouldn’t take advice from a doctor who had spent the last 10 years misdiagnosing patients regardless of how well he did in med school.

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      Hyperthx

      December 22, 2011 at 12:39 pm

      Your an idiot if you think John Carmack is irrelevant.

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      1. 

         sharmona

         December 22, 2011 at 1:39 pm

         He’s not irrelevant. Just makes shit games.

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            pat (not that pat)

            December 22, 2011 at 5:59 pm

            It’s a shame that someone (like Carmack) who pioneered a genre is so callously dismissed by someone who’s likely never to come close to achieving much beyond playing said “shit games.”

            You’ve gotta respect the fact that he was instrumental in defining the genre. Rage was lacking, for sure but even rockstars have bad gigs from time to time 🙂

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            1. 

               AerintheADEQUATE

               December 23, 2011 at 4:13 am

               It seems like most ‘gamers’ can’t progress beyond the “What have you done for me LATELY?” mentality 😛

7. 

   Braaains

   December 22, 2011 at 10:39 am

   If only running in a mere 720p had been Rage’s biggest problem.

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8. 

   James Woods

   December 22, 2011 at 10:52 am

   “Maybe the next Xbox should be called the 1080 and not the 720?”

   ……priceless

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9. 

   Caiphus

   December 22, 2011 at 11:45 am

   Definitely makes a difference. If you can tell a major difference on a pc with a smaller screen a 40inch or bigger would really show it. 60fps should be a minimum too.

   4k should be the potential capability imo if we are going to a 10 year cycle for consoles. Using a 1440p screen on my pc i have to play at 720 or full res or get a case of the fuzzies. Moving to higher storage mediums then dvd should allow them to cater to multiple native resses.

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      Hyperthx

      December 22, 2011 at 12:40 pm

      ie SSD

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10. 

    StudiodeKadent

    December 22, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    I agree with Carmack that the next generation should target 1080p.

    With even modest hardware (by today’s standards) 1080p30 wouldn’t be difficult, and given that consoles have fewer layers of software abstraction it should be very easy to get 1080p30 at a console price point.

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11. 

    oshtree

    December 23, 2011 at 1:19 am

    Carmack can suck a dick, Rage looks like complete shit.

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12. 

    whatever3003

    December 24, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    Why the hell isn’t he fixing Rage first?

    I buy a game, I expect it to work. I refuse to do anything more than download game patches and update video drivers. If I have to start tweaking cfg files to make it playable, it’s broken.

    I can’t return it because it’s steam activated and region locked.

    Fuck carmack, he’s squandering the deep respect the technical community has for him – he needs to fix his POS shooter first or start offering blanket refunds. This is not how business is done.

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