According to Sony’s Andrew House, upscaled 4K resolutions don’t make “4K gaming” a misleading term. He said in an interview with Digital Spy, “I would say the majority of games will be upscaled, at least based on the game portfolio I have seen to date.” When pressed further if 4K gaming was a misleading term considering the games are upscaled, House replied, “No, I don’t think so. I think that whatever the term is, it’s a question of whether people see a demonstrable difference in the game experience or not, rather than the term we use to apply to it. I think that’s what people are looking for and they’ll make their judgement as to whether that’s working for them or not.”
I personally find this incredibly misleading because Sony executives including Shuhei Yoshida said that only the PlayStation 4 was a 1080p device and the Xbox One was a 720p device. PlayStation also posted an infamous advertisement on Facebook saying the same. Why are upscaled games suddenly classified as 4K gaming? With that definition, then even the Xbox One S is a 4K gaming machine. I wonder what Project Scorpio is for Andrew House? Super 4K gaming? 8K gaming? The fact that they’re advertising a console which can only render indies and old titles at 4K is misleading and is basically inviting lawsuits. We’ll see what happens in the future but I’m glad that the mainstream media is calling Sony out on this.
Source: VG247
Xian was a regular ICXM contributor between 2015–2017, publishing 162 articles across game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news. Their work focused on hands-on reviews, platform commentary, and breaking-news reporting during the Xbox One X launch year and Microsoft’s wider Play Anywhere / UWP gaming initiative.