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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (11 children)

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.)

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Y'all just picky. 720 was fine 20 years ago and it's fine now.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Black and white TV was fine 60 years ago and it's fine now

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.xyz 1 points 1 month 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 2 points 1 month ago

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

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