Question about wide color gamut today

[GasValve]

I've browsed around and read a bit about sRGB and wide color gamut. I am not in the market to buy a calibrating device so I'm just a regular user that have to rely on factory settings or minor OSD tweaks with the help of the all knowing Internet.

Here's my question. Is it at all a good idea to buy a wide color gamut monitor if I never or rarely will use software that can make use of it at present? Is it possible to have the monitor display colors correctly when, say, playing games? Or am I better off going for a regular sRGB monitor if I'm not a printed media artist of some kind?

 

[jaguarskx]

Many people who buys monitors nowadays buys a wide color gamut monitor, most likely because they do not really know the difference compared to a standard color gamut monitor. It will take a little bit of time to get used to wide color gamut monitor.

Arguably, you can say that wide color gamut displays richer colors. However, the colors will be slightly greenish compared to what you are used to. It can be toned down to minimize the effect by playing around with the color settings, but you cannot make it disappear completely.

Games use their own color palettes so there is no such thing as "accurate colors" for games especially when exaggerated colors (or lack thereof) are used to set up an atmosphere in the game. I have no issues playing games on a wide gamut monitor.

The following picture is one of the Fallout 3 desktop wallpaper that can be downloaded from Bethesda's site. On a normal color gamut monitor the Brotherhood of Steel armor should be grey from what I remember, however on a wide color gamut monitor the armor looks greenish grey. To be honest this is the only picture I have issues with of all the pictures I have seen on both a standard and wide color gamut monitor.

 

[GasValve]

Are you sure about that? Seeing as the entire FA3 game is tinted green it wouldn't be surprising if this image had the same thing 😛. It looks greenish to me too on this TN panel from 2005. But maybe less so than yours. Also, Photoshop says it's greenish when using the color picker.

But why then buy a wide color gamut monitor if all it's going to be is "ok, but greenish and you can counteract that a little bit" ?

And games, whether they use weird color correction or not, still works in either sRGB or something wider do they not?