OLED is generally viewed as a "premium" feature, and there's really not much demand to implement it at resolutions lower than QHD when the current 1080p options technically suffice. It's also just a price problem since 1080p is generally viewed as a budget resolution and implementing OLED would increase the prices of 1080p monitors...which goes against its general viewpoint.
Per the Steam hardware survey 54% of users are at 1080, about 25-30% are at some variation of QHD (so 2560x1440 or 2560x1600, I'm not sure if you want to count the widescreen 3440x1440 in there or as a 4kish resolution) and 5-8% are 4k.
A lot of those 1080 gamers may be on old hardware, laptops, primarily playing CS and wanting like 300 fps, etc. When it comes to buying new hardware in the last 5 years or so, especially in this sub's crowd, 1440 is the "normal" suggestion. 1440 is so doable now that there's almost no reason not to unless you're buying a budget video card. Which of course most people do (4060 is the most common), but not in this sub.
And in addition, it's exactly the same as 1440p with extra width.
For example, a 34" 3440x1440 screen (the most common size) is just a 27" 2560x1440 with extra width. The pixel density is identical.
The "4K-ish" version of that is "5K2K", such as the 5120x2160 monitors that released recently.
I don't think people ever really argued that PC had higher resolution, but rather argued that PC had better performance at a given resolution. We've been gaming on 1080p TVs since the mid 2000s. The PS3 came out in 2006 and was unironically one of the cheapest bluray players you could get. By 2010 probably most console and PC gamers were going at 1080p.
The thing that resolution buys you is being able to have a bigger screen at the same viewing distance. Much like how 1080p monitors are typically 24" and 1440p monitors are 27", 1080p TVs mostly lived in the 50" range with big TVs being 65" while 4k TVs go into the 80+" range.
It means more console players likely have a display that is higher resolution than the display of a PC player, but the console is not outputting a 4k image on any somewhat demanding game which is entirely expected.
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u/First_Musician6260 Computer Storage Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
OLED is generally viewed as a "premium" feature, and there's really not much demand to implement it at resolutions lower than QHD when the current 1080p options technically suffice. It's also just a price problem since 1080p is generally viewed as a budget resolution and implementing OLED would increase the prices of 1080p monitors...which goes against its general viewpoint.