Xbox Trailer Predicts Games Will Run At 32K, 480FPS In The Year 2042

Is this “Ready Player One”

32k resolution is laughable, the human eye likely couldn't tell a difference between that and 8k to be honest.

Maybe by 2042 the queue I'm in for Diablo 2 will be done.

Sure, from 2021 to 2042 we'll jump to 32k 480fps, holographic UIs in palm sized boxes.

Yet from 2001 to 2022 we jumped from.....Windows NT kernel with a keyboard and mouse and 1920x1440 (fixed resolution) @ 20-60fps with frame dips on an instant response CRT to....Windows NT kernel with keyboard and mouse at 4096 × 2160 (dynamic resolution with drops) @20-60fps with frame dips on a laggy high latency LCD/OLED. And that was during an early period of rapid advancement in a newish industry. I kind of find it hard to believe the next 21 years will be that much more rapid advancement as tech matures and stagnates and the rapid innovation of the early years is behind us.

Besides, I thought all those Quantum computers will just be sitting in an Azure datacenters and MEC units on cell towers to virtualize normal consoles vertically so it can be streamed to our simple dumb terminals?

Oh, wait, this is an EA commercial. I thought gaming in 2042 meant FIFA '42 which is the same as FIFA '21 but with a new roster and all new Surprise Mechanics?

Predicting the future always loses accuracy because they’re all flash and lack utility. In a real world setting, how and why would I use a holographic interface on my controller? That’s just the Wii U with extra steps. 32k resolution and 480fps is a waste of power too.

In 2042, the cloud runs everything. The average internet speed will be multiple terabits per second. With that much data throughput on hand, AI will do things we can’t even imagine today. Resolution and FPS fall by the wayside in favor of immersion.

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The future of gaming will not be referred to as gaming, rather acquired reality living conditions or ARLC, for short. Entire cities will be rebuilt with plain white plastic, think one of those model cities in some excecs office, that but in real life, allowing us to alter the interface with our mandatory VR contact lenses. Effectively changing the skin of the city, some might prefer to see their skyscrapers as cobblestone towers, others might wish to see a high tech building of black granite and neon lights. Either way, people will be able to choose how they appear to others, forget gender fluidity, you can be actual fluid if you want! No one works any more, we all earn points by completing quests and then use those points to pay our rent. Once a year battle royal mode kicks in for 3 days, everyone has to kill each other, the firewalls are off, and yes, death means actual death. Every sunday, contact lenses will be programmed with state interface meaning the whole world will be black except for a giant Phil Spencer head in the matrix-y sky. We bow and worship for several hours before the world of Phil is loaded in, behold textures of his past, taste the Xbox green in all its glory...NOW BACK TO YOUR INDIVIDUAL SETTINGS!

Something like that

The fact that Microsoft is actually invested in Quantum Computing makes this trailer a little more believable than it should!

"It's suggested that 'Xbox 2042' will be "built to drive native 32K resolutions in Full Spectrum Color at a base frame rate of 240 FPS (up to 480 FPS) with zero latency"

OK. So basically complete overkill and overhype as the human eye will not even be able to register at that level. Cool. An excuse charge more money for something never use.

I get your scepticism, @NEStalgia, to your initial point, at least, but I'm probably the oldest guy that frequents these forums (or close to it at least), and in 1988 I was a Copper and was sent to the theft of a mobile telephone. Of course, back then, a mobile telephone was not something you carried around with you, it was quite literally a handset attached to a car battery that was fastened to the central armrest within your car, and was solely something that could only be afforded by the wealthy. That was the first time I ever even heard of a 'mobile' phone! Fast forward just over 30 years and look what we carry around with us now!

It seems to me that technology is effectively doubling every 10 years (or at least that is how it seems). 1961 was the first time we put a man in space, and now, just 60 years later, we have billionaires going for 10 minute jollies into low orbit, and the intention is to send a human to Mars in the 2030's.

Basically, who knows what technology will be at our disposal in the 2040's. Will we basically 'jack-in' to entertainment as seen in various Sci-Fi films over the years? I think for the younger people, it is difficult to understand and appreciate the rapidity of technological advancement over the past few decades. My youngest son is 18 and thinks nothing of using the internet, failing to understand that it only came into peoples homes in the late 1990's and was so slow as to be almost impossible to use (and stopped working if someone picked up the home phone or you received a telephone call!), and that whereas porn is now readily available to anyone with an internet connection, it used to only be available on worn out videos from beneath the counter in rental stores (or so I'm led to believe...!).

Point being, in another 20 years time, entertainment is likely to be on a whole other level...

And most of 80s cartoons predicted that by now we'd have flying cars....
Let's just stick to achieving stable 4k/60fps for the time being and then we'll go from there. Ok?.........Ok.

And still the cyberpunk next gen version wont be available

Nintendo Trailer Predicts Their Games Will Run at 4K, 60FPS in the Year 2042

@leathco I can't really tell the difference between hd & 4k tbh won't bother with 8k unless I need a new Tele & there going cheap

For those wondering: The absolute limit of the human eye is estimated to be around 32K and 1000 FPS, but not at the same time, ie: A healthy human eye with no visual issues whatsoever can see up to 32K when examining still images, and can detect simple changes (but no real detail) at 1000 FPS. 32K might be completely unecessary even at 480 FPS, as some experiments suggest detailed information is difficult to perceive above just 300 FPS or so.

32k VR will be indistinguishable from reality and is on track to be available by 2035, so this isn't that far off.

And yet, I shall not have a TV or eyes good enough to enjoy it.

@Syndrome 80's? Walt Disney thought we'd have them by the 80's, back in the 40's.

@Fiendish-Beaver IDK... That's the thing, microchip based electronic tech was basically "new" in the 80's, and was advancing at an incredibly rapid rate through the 80's and 90's. But as it matured post 2000 it's slowed down incredibly dramatically. The main thing from 2000-2010 was just miniaturization, not really advancement. We took what we had in computing and shrunk it into a pocket sized device, that still has more limitations than the original form factor. Since then it's slowed considerably such that only modest gains occur with each generation, which is part of why costs skyrocketed on phones, they're making up the lost growth they had before as people already have good enough phones already. Cellular speeds have dramatically increased but none of that is advancement in the raw electronics tech, it's all advancement in radio wave/broadcast tech. We've got incredibly fast internet bandwidth but that's all fiber optics tech that was started back during WWII.

In the 60's we launched a massive rocket engine with a pod of a few men and a little truck off world and onto a different celestial body so they could hang out a few days, launch from the other body in a controlled trajectory using stored fuel back to earth, and land safely on a parachute in the ocean. Today billionaires fly around for 10 minute jaunts in what amounts to being a very high altitude airplane and we call it space flight. Meanwhile NASA works on building a heavy lift rocket for a Mars mission because they "lost" the blueprints to the most powerful rocket engine ever built, and can't figure out how to remake the machine they built in the early 60's, the Saturn V. Consumer tech is pretty mature and mostly static and stable at this point unless or until some new breakthrough occurs, and the #1 selling games console is a 2017 machine built on 2012 phone technology.

The changes in tech from the 80s to 2000 was immense and ever changing, but it's really calmed down now, and though we hear about quantum computing, no real breakthroughs have still occurred, and we don't have many actual uses for the tech (and the ones we have are terrifying and cross into the "things we can do but shouldn't do" territory.) Plus, a lot of that 80's advancement was driven by the Cold War. Today, everything is driven by squeezing out every ounce of profit out of what exists until you can wring no more from it. Maybe the new Cold War with China will spur more advancement again, but China's not the innovator the Soviets were, even if they're more high tech.

Any big change that occurs isn't going to be in new powerful supertechnologies, it's going to be in battery technology. When you can power something like a PS5 in a pocket device for days or weeks on end, that's going to change how tech is used more than any quantum computer, outside a laboratory/datacenter. But even that is more of an advancement in physics than anything else.

Personally I'm glad the days of rapid advancement are over. It was too much to keep up with

GTAV still in top ten

Our differing perspectives is interesting, @NEStalgia. I've always loved technological advancements, and am guilty of oft buying the latest device but failing to make the most of it.

The endeavour to get to Mars during the 2030's really intrigues me though, and I just hope that I'm around to witness it. Space travel and exploration has always excited me, but whether the jumps into 'space' currently enjoyed by the most wealthy elites ever becomes affordable to the average Joe, or actually meaningful, I find highly doubtful.

We do live in fascinating technological times though, and I eagerly await the next innovation to capture my imagination. I just have to hope that it is something that I can both afford, and actually need...

In reality it’ll be 8k @ 120fps in 2042.

Remember these machines were advertised as 8k hahahahaha.

my prediction is that they are way underestimating the true 20 year long advancement of technology

i would say by the time 2030 gets here . we will all be playing games in true native 8k on 244hrz screens

I think you could well be right, @phoenix1, with the determining factor being affordability. If they can get 8k televisions down to the current pricing of 4k televisions, then I know I would happily buy one , though by then, I'll be rapidly approaching 70, and whether my arthritis and eyesight will permit me to continue gaming is a whole other matter...