How BioWare touting Dragon Age: Inquisition's 'maximized' resolutions is smart marketing

It’s difficult to see the difference between a 1080p resolution in a game and a 900p resolution when looking at screenshots or gameplay. But it’s easy to see the marketing power that those numbers have on consumers, and Electronic Arts is clearly aware of that.

The publisher and its Dragon Age: Inquisition developer BioWare took to Twitter today to tout that the studio maximized the resolution for the fantasy role-playing adventure on both of the new consoles. It explained that Dragon Age will have 1,080 lines of horizontal resolution on PlayStation 4 and 900 on Xbox One. This comes just days after Ubisoft found itself making headlines for releasing the next Assassin’s Creed game, Unity, at 900p on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Gamers jumped on a quote from Unity lead producer Vincent Pontbriand, who said Ubisoft went for parity to avoid the “debates” that gamers have about which console is better. Fans took that to mean that Ubisoft downgraded the PS4 version — although Ubisoft has denied that is what happened.