• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
    273·
    14 days ago

    If I’m playing modern games on a TV? PS5 easy. But still the pro over the deck.

    I love my deck. As the handheld it’s intended to be. It’s not powerful enough for an acceptable experience running a AAA 3D game on a TV screen. You can ignore the resolution and artifacts and just generally low visual quality and poor frame rate on a small screen, because playing the games portably at all is a huge step up. You can’t ignore any part of it on a TV. It’s fine for indie games, older games, 2D stuff, etc.

    But it doesn’t have the performance for a good living room experience if you’re looking to play modern AAA games. (Ignoring all their bullshit rootkits on PC that block a lot of multiplayer games out completely, which are the games you have to pay for on PS. You just can’t play most of them on Linux at all.)

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
        51·
        14 days ago

        20 years ago was pre-bluray, so the most common video media was dvd with resolution of 720 × 480 (480p). So 720p was really good 20 years ago.

        • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
          51·
          14 days ago

          That, and monitor/TV size increased a lot at the time when flat panels became a thing, so you need a higher resolution just to achieve the same pixel density you already had on a smaller screen.

          • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
            21·
            14 days ago

            Well also the change to pixel based screens from CRTs meant that you needed higher resolution for the picture to look comparitively good.

      • XTL@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        14 days ago

        It was not. 30 years ago, it would have been very good, though, as a lot of media was still SD.