TD on XB1 is also not native 1080P, most of the time it's 900P, so your IQ claim is not relevant, and obviously QB got much better character models, amazing effects, and overall much better fidelity, how can an open world game be comparable if we are talking strictly about visuals?
We're talking final IQ as on the screen. Most of the time The Divsion has a better IQ and from my understanding it's mostly above 900p too.
As ever half the issue is people talk all kinds of things when discussion graphics.
QB has amazing
effects, the distortion, particles, lighting, etc. but it pays a price in IQ and
overall visual presentation to have them. It's soft and it's clearly not as sharp or overall good an IQ as a number of other games on XB1.
How could it not?
QB has to run on the same HW as games like The Division and ROTTR and it has to allocate more of the available resources (which are identical for all on XB1) to the effects and looses out on resolution and as a result one of the key drivers of great IQ.
It doesn't look bad, it looks very good. And it has amazing effects. But the visual IQ suffers vs games with less effects that can pump more of the available resources into overall sharp IQ.
Dark10x put it well in another thread I think:
"Also, I think simply saying it's 720p isn't giving it enough credit what Remedy is doing image quality wise. It's a very VERY soft looking game but also remarkably clean - almost like a pre-rendered movie at points. The low resolution doesn't result in ugly aliasing artefacts everything, it simply eliminates the sharpness you'd get at 1080p (which the PC version can deliver). It looks more like a Blu-ray player outputting at 720p versus a game rendered at 720p.
I've never had a problem with soft, blurred imagery but I recognize that many people will. It's one of those things that also hinges on the display used and the viewing distance. On my Pioneer plasma, the game actually looks quite remarkable and very clean - but on an LCD monitor from close proximity, the issues become much more apparent."
Remedy have done an amazing job on XB1 IMHO to have those effects and make 720p look as good as they have. But there's no mistaking from an IQ perspective they're making 720p look good and they can't make it look as good as a very clean and sharp 1080p (or 1080pr) game.