On the one hand, I'm not even running 4K yet, and it is vanishingly unlikely that I will own a >4K display within the lifetime of my PS5, so this makes no difference to me.

On the other hand, I would like to see blatant false advertising punished every time it happens. "Nobody really cares" isn't much of an excuse when they clearly thought people cared enough to put it prominently on the box. Being able to play high-end video 10 years down the line is a legitimate selling point for a gaming console that doubles as media box.

This sounds an awful lot like the PS3 OtherOS class-action lawsuit that Sony had to pay out on.

No PS1 games they could upscale to 8k?

Can any console even run actual 4K yet? Not just upscaled 1440p at reduced framerate?

So if my packaging has 8k marketing on it, can I get a refund?

I hate Linus, but he did a great bit l On the 3000 series graphics cards hitting 8K. And how ridiculous it was

Yeah I don't see 8K delivering any value. My eyes can't resolve past 4k anyway, it'll just be heavier on the GPU and it won't get me a damn thing.

Sure, 64k ought to be enough, yada yada. That doesn't apply when you're running up against biological limits though.

Did... people think it was anything other than "HDMI 2.1 supports it, put it on the box"?

Sony has quietly removed the 8k logo...a change that appears to have happened between late January and mid-February

I must have gotten mine just before then. I still have the box and had to check; 8K branding. I got it somewhere between January and February, right around the time the thing started being regularly in stock again.

I'm waiting on the next hardware refreshes for 16k

Who the fuck wants to waste that much processing power on what's essentially indistinguishable from 2k with a nice AA or upscaler (like DLSS or FSR) for a tenth of the processing power? It's literally pointless and was thrown on there probably by marketing so people can see bigger numbers.