Will PS5 Support 1440p Screens? Fans Are Eager for Answers - Push Square

A post on monitor manufacturer BenQ’s website over the weekend fuelled hopes that the PlayStation 5 would be compatible with 1440p screens, but the page has since been edited leaving fans eager for answers.

Sony has confirmed that the next-gen console will, of course, work on 1080p and 4K displays, but it’s been conspicuously quiet about 1440p options.

Those of you with a PS4 Pro will already know that the console does not support 1440p monitors, detecting them as 1080p and then upscaling from that.

The aforementioned BenQ post talked a little bit about the fledgling 120 frames-per-second boom that’s occurred of late, and pointed out that a 1440p screen may be good enough if you intend to leverage such refresh rates.

If you’re interested in high framerates, you may want to consider a good QHD gaming monitor, as 1440p will be supported by the PS5 with a higher likelihood of 120Hz in that resolution.”.

Ultimately, it means this is yet another minor detail that Sony needs to clarify.

Microsoft has included 1440p monitor support in its various consoles, so it’ll be interesting to see whether the PS5 follows suit.

I have my ps4 pro with a 1440p asus monitor.

Now, the UI and some games look sharper on my monitor because of the 4k rendering and downsampling of the image?

I get that 1440p displays are mostly for pc gaming, and the ps5 is a "tv console", but they should consider the many people who use monitors for both things like me.

I'm sure it will "support" it meaning it'll work when set to 4k mode (or 1080p if you want blurry, sub native scaling) but I doubt it's gonna have a 1440p setting and most games won't redistribute the cpu/gpu to work better with 2560x1440 and high framerates.

So a few people wasted money on their 1440p high refresh rate monitors, and think Sony needs to accommodate for that?.

I hope this isn't going to be the next Sony boycott from the "fans".

Game's on console unlike PC's you don't need to drop your resolutions and tweak 20 settings just to get something to look remotely playable.

If you're going to have some games running at 1440p, the least you could do is support the damn resolution.

Good thing I didn't upgrade to a 1440P screen.

4K TVs are cheap as chips and look great.

By allowing 1440p 120Hz Sony would allow games for competitive gaming between console and PC cross play.

The 1440p resolution you think is useless is in fact the best mix of resolution and framerate and is in all honesty what Sony and Microsoft should have been targeting this generation!

You'd be surprised at how popular 1440p monitors are becoming becoming considering that Asus, Samsung, LG, and BenQ are pushing out more of these monitors than they are of their 4k counterparts.

4k is nice, but it takes a lot of effort and is a very power hungry resolution for games even on PC, especially on a console.

1440p 60+fps would be a nice sweet spot for console games.

Will the PS5 games look good on that 4k tv

I have 0 problems with my 1440p 144hz monitor when it comes to adjusting the image quality to my liking

And if Sony doesn't want to accommodate to those users, well, there's a Series S for us

@graysoncharles no one is saying Sony won’t accomodate those users

I can’t speak for Samsung but I have a Sony 4K TV which, after adjusting some settings, works fine and looks beautiful

I removed all the film and smooth processing, changed the tones to standard, and still, the skin tones look unnatural and the reds are too vibrant

Lowering the red gamma makes the greens look oversaturated

So pretty sure 1440 is confirmed because Demons souls says that it's performance mode will run at 1440p

While it would be nice if Sony just came out and say it, I would have to assume that they wouldn't set a launch game to a resolution that they can't natively output

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