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Is parity a good thing for gamers?
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With the news breaking that the X1 version of AC Unity is 900p 30fps and the PS4 version is the same for the sake of parity (which if you read between the line is probably scaled back)
My questions (I'm asking while admittedly still angry at the news) is parity ever a good thing in gaming? who does it benefit to make one version worse than it could be for the other? Where does it stop, will we see entire game modes removed from cross platform games because they can't run on one of the consoles?
Do gamers benefit from this in anyway, or would it be better to use both consoles to their full potential?
My questions (I'm asking while admittedly still angry at the news) is parity ever a good thing in gaming? who does it benefit to make one version worse than it could be for the other? Where does it stop, will we see entire game modes removed from cross platform games because they can't run on one of the consoles?
Do gamers benefit from this in anyway, or would it be better to use both consoles to their full potential?
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Why would they want to scale it back? What's the developers motivation for this ?
Lol Assassins Creed Parity
Absolutely ridiculous thing to do. It implies the devs do not want the best possible version out there. Will they pare down the pc version?
"We decided to lock them at the same specs to avoid all the debates and stuff," senior producer Vincent Pontbriand told VideoGamer.com
Pretty terrible reason if you ask me you just need to look on twitter to see this has caused a much bigger mess than both games being different, making the best game possible on every console should be what every dev aims for, hopefully a post launch patch is in order like the one for Black Flag
Well, MS are co-marketing the game this time around. Draw your own conclusions from that.
Unless it gets gimped too!
Couldn't care less about pc gaming unless it's an MMO.
Ha, pretty much proves it lol
Marketed by Sony
AC: Black Flag, On X1 = 900p 30fps, on PS4 = 1080p 30fps
Watchdogs, On X1 = 792p 30fps, PS4 = 900p 30fps
Far Cry 4, X1 = Couldn't find, PS4 = 1080p 30fps (targeted)
Marketed by Microsoft
AC Unity, X1 = 900p 30fps, PS4 = 900fps
Also worth pointing out that when Black Flag and Watch Dogs were released, the XBO hadn't freed up the space that Kinect used.
*IF* Ubisoft are being completely honest when they describe the issue they've encountered with Unity - that it's a CPU problem and not a GPU one, then it's actually the Xbox One that has the superior CPU.
Then why isn't the X1 version better, the statement they made can only be taken as they could of made one version better but didn't and you'd think with MS being behind the marketing they'd want to have 'play the definitive version only on Xbox one' on the adverts
It just doesn't make sense after all the talk of this not being possible on Last Gen or WiiU for that matter that every console would get the best version possible on the hardware, as it stands they won't and the reason behind that need to be explained
I personally don't care! Both machines fire out beautiful graphics & I bet AC will be great on either machine! 👍 ... The technical differences are so small that average joe wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway imo! 😊
(Most of my friends are on X1 so that's the version I'm getting!) 👍
I personally interpreted the statement that it wasn't possible on either console, and judging from the statement released from Ubisoft (I posted in the other thread), it seems this is how the comment was meant anyway.
No where does it implicitly (or explicitly) say that they held one version back. In fact, it explicitly says that the AI demands on the processor meant the game is locked at 30fps on both consoles.
Either way though, like I said I'm not a tech person and I don't work for Ubisoft, but IF their statement regarding CPU is accurate, then it's not an XBO issue, merely because the XBO has the superior CPU capabilities.
UBisoft had a relationship with Sony for the AC franchise, now they have got close to MS for AC Unity.
i agree, no body really is going to notice anything between the two platforms
Yet people debate about the tiny differences for months on forums.....while the rest of us are actually enjoying playing the games
first world problems....
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My HP laptop blows both the X1 & PS4 away when it comes to technical wizardry... but I don't care! ... I'm too busy playing great games on my X1 (namely DR3 & FH2) atm! 👍
Folk with too much time on their hands more like! 😉
talking of time, its time to go to work..
enjoy Alien people:)
(if its arrived;-))
This really about how many Ps or which looks better, its about whether a company should make a game better if they can, its about whether programming for the worst and saying job done is good enough
Remember last gen when so many games got better ports on 360, that was fine but this gen X1 is behind so we start to see parity to avoid arguments and debate, that makes no sense where was the parity last gen