But thats complete bollocks...
Forza is 5 1080p, native @ 60fps. NBA is 1080p native @60fps.
The system is capable of outputting NATIVE 1080p.
IF it does turn out to be true and COD Ghosts is 720p on the XOne, I would say its more an indication of Infinity Ward skill set.
Probably, but it is likely also true that 32MB esRAM is a little bit small for 1080p in visually demanding 60fps games. At the same time , the toolkit is reportedly very rough, and IW had little time to design the game. I would say the biggest factor is thus the limited time and early beta/alpha development enviornment used, with second-biggest factor being the 32MB esRAM. The Xbox One is capable of outputting native 1080p, but even the ps3 could output 1440x1080 in complex games such as wipeout with elaborate optimization and a advanced knowledge of the system and toolkit. What matters is the average resolution of a reasonable demanding game, not the peak resolution the system is "capable" of outputting. And for Xbox One, that may well wind up being 900p, especially for 60fps games, over the course of the lifecycle. However, CoD is a poor indicator either way, since by all accounts and common sense, IW is using tools and development kits that may be underspecced (given recent upclocks), are extremely rough around the edges, and are constantly changing and may even be at a slight delay relative to the development kits used by Microsoft, given the rapid pace of console development. Plus, they only had a few months to port the game, in all likelihood. Thus, CoD is more of a test of "time to triangle" than sheer ability, and it is pretty widely agreed that PS4's standard DDR5 architecture, with unified memory pools, is the easiest by far in that regard. PS4 is also more powerful, but the power advantage in a game on a time crunch development-wise on PS4 is probably even greater than the raw power advantage, if that makes any sense.
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