Xbox One X touts 4K gaming as its best feature, but is 4K gaming even all that important to console gamers?
Microsoft`s upcoming Xbox One X console is being touted as the world`s most powerful console. Sporting an 8-core CPU, 12GB GDDR5 graphic memory, and a 6 Teraflop GPU, it`s hard to argue that fact. All that power means true 4K gaming at 60 frames per second, which is no small feat. To achieve the same experiences on PC, you`d likely be spending a pretty penny over the Xbox One X`s retail price of just $499.
But I can`t help but wonder how important 4K gaming is for console gamers in 2017. A lot of gamers are still rocking 1080p televisions in their homes because 1080p is still the mainstream resolution for nearly everything. Most broadcast television, online video, games, movies, and TV shows are most commonly available at 1080p, so for a lot of people there isn`t really a need to splash out the extra cash for a 4K premium TV.
Although the Xbox One X is a 4K console, it will ...
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