Firstly, you just highlighted some issues that probably will not go away with upscaling xbox one games. Is it not reasonable for people to want those issues (however minor you think they are) go away with a new generation?
Secondly, you have assumed there are no major complaints with upscaling 720p on PS3 and 360. They might not be major complaints for you and I. But high-end PC gamers who are used to impeccable image quality will consider it a major complaint when they play console exclusives. I'm sure you would agree that image quality is quite crappy for many of the top-end games that push the boundaries of the hardware. So for people who care about image quality, don't you think those are valid complaints? Sure you can anti-alias the heck out of it with additional horsepower on next gen, but as SPE pointed out, they would still not be as good as native resolution.
I think 3 display planes, each capable of running at their own independent resolution and even framerate, says we can most likely kiss that problem goodbye on Xbox One. In other words, even if a game is rendering at native 900p, the UI is more than likely to still be running at 1080p native. That's one of the primary reasons the display planes exist on the Xbox One, to solve this problem. I'd be willing to go out on a ledge and bet that the UI in Ryse is native 1080p, even though the game itself is rendering at native 900p.
I also agree. It is absolutely reasonable for people to want other issues, however minor they may be to me, to be dealt with in a new generation, and I honestly believe they will be by the power of these new systems, even the Xbox One. I may be in small company here, but the best looking games on both systems are games I personally have zero complaints about as it pertains to image quality. Games like Halo 4, Uncharted 2 and 3, God of War 3, GTA V, the Batman Arkham games, Heavy Rain etc, are all games I think look really damn good. Alan Wake is one of the lowest resolution exclusives on either system, and I thought that game looked fantastic. I believe it had 4XMSAA also, which probably helped a great deal, no doubt, but the lighting, the environments, the atmosphere, the impressive use of particles, It's an amazing looking game, but maybe I'm just not as picky or discerning on these things as others. Even so, surely there are enough gamers on here with pretty solid, or even excellent, 1080p HDTVs who agree how amazing these games look? Don't get me wrong, I've seen some HDTVs that look just abysmal at anything less than 1080p, and in such circumstances, native 1080p may indeed be absolutely crucial for those folks, and I guess I do have to be pretty mindful of that. Westinghouse models are some big culprits from what I've seen. And even an older Toshiba Regza model I had, which was quite good, gets roundly spanked by my newer Samsung with regards to quality scaling at different resolutions.
Sometimes it really does boil down to the quality of the television or scaler on the television itself, and, really, that can be a hit or miss thing, especially if you're on a budget, and need to pick out the most affordable thing possible at the time, but I've always been careful to be really patient and just save up for as long as was necessary for just the right HDTV for my needs. I bought ones I understood to be of lesser quality for family or even friends for when a specific level of quality wasn't really the big focus, but I've always done my research to make sure what I got for myself was nothing short of the best, or was at least the best when it was new.
And so maybe there are bigger factors for why I don't have complaints about these titles, or why I'm less concerned about games not being 1080p native on the new systems. Only one I have a big enough complaint about is the UI elements such as cell phone text or the mini-map for spotting cops in GTA V, but that's one of the primary issues I expect to see addressed on the Xbox One, and I don't expect it will be an issue on the PS4 either, since most things will be native 1080p or close to it anyway.
I'm sorry I kind of flew off the rails when I read your post. But I told you to stop because you don't even own a PS3 yet you make a comment saying PS3 owners are completely ok with worse looking/performing games. And that is absolutely false.
Whoa, hold the phone, junior. I absolutely own a PS3. Just because I don't own the ps3 versions of specific games doesn't mean I don't own the system. I quite regularly talk about the PS3 games that I own and enjoy the most on this forum. I'm one of the people that bought one for $600 at launch.