How many years do you estimate it will be before 2560x1440 becomes an outdated resolution for gaming?

[DSprite]

Essentially, I am asking how many years will a 2560x1440 @ 165Hz monitor will last me. 

[DrMacintosh]

we are still waiting for 1440p to be even close to being the dominate resolution for anything. 

[Armakar]

I just bought a 165hz gsync 1440p monitor. Most people still use 1080p, it's a long way before 1440p is the norm letalone outdated. 1080p is a 10 year old resolution that is STILL defacto standard.

[iRileyx]

Probably a while, new 1080p monitors are still being released, and i'd imagine they will "disappear" before 1440p will.

[Lurick]

It will last you until it dies.

720p is still common and 1080p will stay for a long time too.

[vanished]

Even 1080p is still very common so the answer is not for the foreseeable future.

[Imbellis]

7 minutes ago, DSprite said:

Essentially, I am asking how many years will a 2560x1440 @ 165Hz monitor will last me. 

I'd have to agree with what other people are saying - 1440p will last you as long as you need. It follows diminishing returns - taking longer to become obsolete.

I think the individual monitor will die decades before the resolution is obsolete.

[ElliottBWeaver]

Steam Hardware Survey shows us that more than 50% of Steam users game at 1080p, with less than 3% at 1440p and about half a percent at 2160p. 1440p will be 'outdated' when 2160p is the norm for gaming, and 4320p is as common as 1440p is today.

 

720p is becoming outdated now that 1080p holds a majority, and 1440p is becoming more popular, with 2160p being rare but still prominent. If we shift this two 'resolution generations' along, we get to the point where 1440p is becoming outdated whilst 2160p holds a clear majority, with 4320p becoming more popular and, Jesus Christ, 8640p being where 2160p is today. 16K gaming. Bloody hell.

[vanished]

1 minute ago, ElliottBWeaver said:

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720p is becoming outdated now that 1080p holds a majority, and 1440p is becoming more popular, with 2160p being rare but still prominent. If we shift this two 'resolution generations' along, we get to the point where 1440p is becoming outdated whilst 2160p holds a clear majority, with 4320p becoming more popular and, Jesus Christ, 8640p being where 2160p is today. 16K gaming. Bloody hell.

I see two potential problems with this:

1. I'm not sure that steam hardware survey actually accurately represents the landscape of gaming machines out there.  Last I checked Intel graphics was one of the most popular, if not the most popular "GPUs", and as we all know no serious gamer is using that so I think there are a lot of non-gaming machines mixed in there... they may even be in the majority.  On that same topic, I don't believe 720p is the most common resolution... at least not of PC gamers.  I can't even remember the last time I saw someone on the forum here with that resolution, where as 1080p and higher are rather common.  I'd say 720p isn't just becoming outdated, I think it already has been for many many years already.  In fact, I'm not sure it even really took off because most people were upgrading from either ~1280 x 1024 or 1680 x 1050 displays to 1080p or higher back when those were still common.
2. I don't think we will see the market move up the resolution ladder nearly as quickly in the future.  For one thing, the leap from 1680 x 1050 to 1080p, and then to 1440p and 4K was relatively gradual compared to going from 4K to 8K to 16K.  Those are doublings each time, just as moving from 720p to 1440p, or 1080p to 4K, and look how long that is taking.  Not only that, but I think with each new tier, more people decide "this is enough for me, I no longer thirst for more" and sit on it for a very long time.

[ShoshinUK]

I'd say 1440p will do fine for dedicated gamer's for at least 5 years.

 

Until the market offers high FPS, low lag gaming for 2160p at reasonable cost then I feel 1440p is very much the sweet spot for most of us.

Also the jump in quality within games between 1440p and 2160p is less than 1080p to 1440p in most situations.

When I went from 1080p to 1440p I was like - right, this makes alot of sense. I can barley tell the difference between 1440p and 2160p in the games I play.

That's alot of 1080p, 1440p and 2160p's LOL