[joe91]

I find this kind of comment strange in a community of self professed hackers :)

8k 120fps HDR is just the specification of the hardware. The hardware supports an 8k framebuffer and can output it to the display at 120fps. Whether or not you will choose to do that depends on what you are trying to achieve with the available GPU cycles. It's exactly the same on current consoles (and PC really). Maybe Forza 19 will choose to render simpler graphics at 8k 120fps, but Witcher 5 will decide to run at 4k but use raytracing and dynamic global illumination (these games may or may not exist :).

There are games that run at 4k/60 with HDR on XBox One X (I worked on one), and there are games that choose not to in order to do something a bit more advanced.

No one is saying that all games will run at 8k/120, just as no one is saying that all games will run at 8k/60 on the RTX 2080 Ti even though its possible to do.

[dkersten]

What you say is correct, but most of the people watching the announcement aren’t technical enough to know that, so it’s really just marketing PR bullshit inflated numbers.

[StreamBright]

In theory I can run with 120 miles/hour but my muscles limit me to 10 miles/hour. So how fast can I run?

[solotronics]

I think your tendons would explode from forces of acceleration at some fraction well below 120mph.