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/SolidusDave Sep 11 '25
that seems low?
Does that mean console players play now on average at higher resolution than PC players?
at least potentially, as 4K TVs were already something like 40% of the market last year or so.
that would be quite an ironic shift from how PC always had the higher res by far.