[abrawill]

8K output support doesn't really cost much so I wouldn't worry about it. It doesn't matter to most of the GPU internals. Games will internally run at whatever resolution they think results in the best quality/responsiveness/fluidity/development-cost trade-off, supporting 8K doesn't change anything there.

[fisherwithac]

Fair enough. My concerns were more rooted in performance than the cost of the console itself. But the performance gains they reported by switching to an SSD would more than likely trump anything lost by supporting higher resolutions.

[abrawill]

Agreed! I'd say the SSD is a real, literal, game changer. Extra resolution is just more of the same really.

[awill]

there's nothing 'lost' by supporting higher resolutions. It will render internally at (say) 4k, and upsample to 8k.