The discourse/arguments around this game on various forums and socials is depressing. People arguing about the resolution and framerates... I see people constantly attacking this game for looking soft... only being able to hit 30fps.Analysis of Hellblade 2. It's probably running between 1080p and 1440p, with reduced resolutions for transparencies and volumetrics.
I know it's not Digital Foundry's job to coddle and pander to these babies as they fight over each others preferred platforms and games... but sometimes I do wish that certain care would be taken to not unnecessarily exacerbate things. Like take for example the resolution. Oliver tested where he could and found that the game typically runs between around 1296p and 1440p.. BUT because he also stated that with the letter boxing, it's more like 964p to 1070p... just like that he just gave an army of haters ammo to throw at the other side.
I feel like in the future, with games which utilize letterboxing to hit their preferred aspect ratio/performance, Digital Foundry should just report the resolution they determine the image to be including the letterboxed portion and not even bother mentioning what resolution the game portion of the image is alone. Reason being is that if you take a 2560x1440 image and throw black bars on the top and bottom.. it doesn't change the resolution. The pixel density remains that of a 1440p image. So saying it's something lower wouldn't exactly be representative of the clarity of the game portion of the image that we actually see.
If someone were to ask me what resolution Hellblade 2 runs at as far as we know, I'd say 1296p to 1440p and not 964p-1070p.