The Xbox One has been having problems since day one (get it) with upscaling or even games playing at full 1080p. For the successor to the Xbox 360, a console that came out in 2005, it's disappointing to see games only play at 720P. Now it appears that the culprit has been identified.
According to the Developers working on Sniper Elite 3, the issue lies within the Xbox One eSRAM
“It was clearly a bit more complicated to extract the maximum power from the Xbox One when you’re trying to do that. I think eSRAM is easy to use. The only problem is…Part of the problem is that it’s just a little bit too small to output 1080p within that size. It’s such a small size within there that we can’t do everything in 1080p with that little buffer of super-fast RAM.
They are releasing a new SDK that’s much faster and we will be comfortably running at 1080p on Xbox One. We were worried six months ago and we are not anymore, it’s got better and they are quite comparable machines. The Xbox One is a bit more multimedia, a bit more hub-centric so its a bit more complex. There’s stuff you can and can’t do because it’s a sort of multimedia hub. PS4 doesn’t have that. PS4 is just a games machine.”
While the developers are getting better hardware the main question would be if the games currently out before this problem was fixed, will they get an update to upscale to 1080p? is this an issue the developers will need to take care of or is it something Microsoft will have to do on its end.
The PS3 had a similar issue with PS2 games looking horrible on the PS3. Sony then released an update to fix this issue.
Source: http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/xbox-esram-preventing-1080p-games/
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