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[Alienous]

What the fuck. I'm more annoyed by the idiocy of that decision as the seconds pass.

What a dumb and shitty thing to do.

 

[Hawaii Jeff]

So they intentionally forced parity in order to avoid debates? FUCK OFF UBISOFT

Seriously Ubisoft should really catch hell for this.

Yeah I can't believe their market research showed that this would be acceptable.

As a PS4 owner, I want to play a game that I know is the best it can be, not intentionally throttled.

 

[lightchris]

So they are CPU bound...so how would one version be better than the other one? Of course ps4 has better specs but if the engine relies heavily on CPU a better gpu won't help much.

The CPU has nothing to do with resolution.
Their statement doesn't make any sense. At all. If they had any GPU time left on both consoles, they could run it in 1080p and beyond. Or implement more GPU taxing stuff. More light sources, better shadows, etc.

 

[BFIB]

I'm not really surprised by this after the files were found in Watch Dogs on PC.

I am surprised that Ubisoft is just coming out and being blatant that they are purposely hindering a possible better experience on another console.

 

[Data West]

Im sorry. Your cancelling a pre order for a watch.... because of parity.

A watch.

I can't GAF. Your politics are too funny. Lets all tweet at ubisoft about how rustled your jimmies are and watch them respond back to us with the laughs of them swimming in that MS money.

Remember when MS laughed off No DRM? You're such a sweet billy.

 

[Kintaro]

I really don't think MS is paying publishers to make shitty PC ports.

PC gamers know not to buy Ubisoft games at full price. Also, I think the point missed your head.

Also, unless people have proof, shouldn't accusing Microsoft of anything here be stupid at best and downright trolling at worst? No evidence of this. Just because they have a marketing deal? Bullocks.

 

[fallingdove]

Fuck off Ubi. This is completely ridiculous. Definitely won't be buying this shit.

 

[Americanmushroom]

lol awesome

 

[EightBitNate]

I'm dead

 

[RE_Player]

Fantastic.

 

[Foshy]

Heh, that comment caused as much debate as not doing it would.

It actually caused more debate, I'd say. PS4 being more powerful is the accepted truth by now, I don't think most XB1-only owners even care anymore at this point.

 

[omonimo]

Agree. Sony had exclusive agreement with Bungie and MS was still able to get it up to 1080p. If people believe MS paid them to hold it at 900p, Sony would have done the same on Destiny.

It's a developer decision. A lot of people have been saying for awhile that both consoles are CPU gimped, and its why MS is pushing for its Azure cloud computing to take the load off.

So it's thanks to Azura if the xone version it's 900p I suppose.

 

[Jachaos]

aka

The PS4 game is being gimped by the Xbone game.

This wouldn't be the first time, and resolution are not even the only case of forced parity, like Destiny not having cross-platform play between platforms and generations because Microsoft doesn't want cross-platform play while Sony is fine with it. War Thunder, FF XIV and such didn't release on Xbox One because of that, but Bungie decided to go for parity instead.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

this better not become a trend so I'll be skipping this game thank you very much Ubisoft, you burned me on my WiiU now you followed up on PS4 to troll me

done messing with these guys

 

[thatmariolover]

Obviously, many of us will be voting with our wallets.

I don't feel too bad considering I've got Mordor to scratch the AC itch.

 

[Yiazmat]

"We decided to lock them at the same specs to avoid all the debates and stuff"

Oh well, maybe I'll get this for pc on a sale then.

 

[Canis lupus]

Send a tweet to @assassinscreed with #PS4NoParity in there. It won't make a difference but it'll be fun.

Done, let's get this trending.

 

[Euron]

Ubisoft is actively trying to make their game look worse? Am I reading this right?

After AC3 and Watch Dogs, Unity is Ubisoft's last chance to sell me something that isn't a next gen pirate game. I'm actually getting pretty sick of their formula but Unity looks like a propet next gen game judging by the footage.

I've been burned by Ubi before and don't want to be again. Waiting for reviews and impressions with this one.

 

[CambriaRising]

Regardless of whether its an 'up-port' or not, what does that matter at all?

PS4 had enough power to do more than the XB1 version yet Bungie didn't take advantage of that. Whether it was an up-port or not, that happened. And its not because MS paid them.

So there is precedent for this.

Destiny is 1080p/30fps so I'm not sure what your point is. If Destiny was 900p, you would have seen a thread like this.

I'll break it down for you.

1080p = Okay.

Not 1080p = Not Okay.

Saying you are intentionally gimping a version to match the weaker console's resolution = Super Not Okay.

Not to mention you have to take into consideration Co-Marketing Deals™. Destiny was HEAVILY pushed on PS4, Sony would have had a shit-fit if it wasn't 1080p. However MS has a Co-Marketing Deal™ with Ubisoft for AC Unity.

Hmmmmm.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Speak with your wallets, folks. No excuse for this shit.

 

[Sol_Goodguy]

"We decided to lock them at the same specs to avoid all the debates and stuff,"

Wow. I don't think that's going to work out for them if the speed at which this thread is moving is any indication.

Fitting.

 

[GameSeeker]

What a stupid decision by Ubisoft. Forced Parity is never good for the consumer.

If Ubisoft wants to force 900p/30fps on all versions, they should do the same with the PC version, otherwise they are hypocrites.

Darn it, I had already pre-ordered this game. But I will vote with my wallet against stupid corporate behavior.

 

[SerTapTap]

Sure I'll toss a little #ps4noparity on the pile

And now they've created an even worse debate. Way to go guys.

The difference is they absolutely deserve all the shit they get in this debate. So that's nice.

 

[Kade]

This thread is literally keeping up a matched post/viewcount.

I think the viewcount automatically updates with the post count but doesn't update for every other view for a few minutes. New threads will usually look like that.

 

[mreddie]

I'm really nervous about Far Cry 4 now.

 

[AgentP]

Forced Parity? I guess the MS check cleared. I hate being punished for MS's incompetence.

 

[Captainbojanglesiii]

You guys are crazy about not buying the game though.

Spoiler

I'm part of the problem. I'm sorry.

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

 

[IAmRandom31]

Atleast they are not lying about it.

Now pS4 owners get to suffer because Microsoft decided it would be a good idea to build a next gen system with the power of a mid range PC from 5 years ago.

Thank god for exclusives

 

[maxiell]

I'm willing to bet this has little to no effect in sales. Maybe the .01% of the population here.

It was already looking to be the worst selling mainline game in the series.

 

[Mass Effect]

Last time I checked GAF was absolutely furious about Skyrim on PS3, with people complaining it was unfair that 360 got a superior version.

Now that PS4 is more powerful than XBONE, no one seems to be crying foul now.

There's a difference between "slightly inferior" and "completely fucking broken."

 

[Bl@de]

Cmon ubisoft ... Lock it 900p/30fps on PC too ... Do it. You know, to avoid debates n stuff

 

[Stone Ocean]

Who is this cool man

Isn't that the lead singer of Blink 182?

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

Isn't Microsoft co marketing this game? Maybe that's why?

Anyway this is really strange move. The same people that debate differences are the same people incensed by one or more platforms held back intentionally for parity reasons.

 

[jayu26]

I can't believe someone actually said that.

 

[Neuromancer]

#PS4NoParity is picking up steam. Keep the tweets coming!

 

[Muppet of a Man]

Holy shit, it's actually happening. We predicted this at the outset of the generation, but I didn't think, it would actually happen...

 

[badb0y]

Boycott this shit.

 

[Wolfgunblood Garopa]

Bold move. Did Ubi just open the parity floodgates?

 

[witchedwiz]

Parity?
Pardon, but i've never asked for Parity in gaming, on the contrary i want devs to sequeeze everything and deliver the best and smoothest experience...
Parity?
If i wanted parity, i'd have asked for every mutliplat title to be at nintendo-relevant gen-hardware quality , instead i was happy with some performing more, some less..
And really, Whoever was the pr that uttered this bullshit, i don't want to be him for the backlash..

 

[BokehKing]

No fucking way did he seriously say "to avoid all the debates and stuff".


REALLY?

Might as well admit ps4 could have easily hit 1080

 

[Daemul]

Occam's razor leads us to MS literally paying them money to technically gut the PS4 version, to make the PS4 version artificially worse for PS4 users. There is no other motive or reason I can think of.

 

[HabeeNo]

And we're done here folks, pack it up

 

[Sesuadra]

aaaaand i canceled my pre-order.

 

[thelastword]

Man o Man, I called that out in one of the assassin creed threads. I believe it was the one where they showed the coop gameplay between 4 assassins. It just looked unbelievably soft with the trademark upscaled aliasing and shadow artifacts. I'll have to pull up the video again.

 

[KKRT00]

You crazy if you will get the same performance of consoles from a Ubisoft game, with the same specs of the consoles, there games are poorly optmized on pc and always have issues.

No, i'm not crazy. Just check any benchmark or DF analysis of Ubisoft games. There are comparisons to PCs with 750Ti or R260.

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A producer would be privy to the finer details of the co-marketing agreement, a better source for detail I would argue.

I've read so many stupid stuff from PR and Producers that i dont trust their tech related knowledge anymore.

 

[Carn82]

Doesn't look good IQ-wise to me.

And that's a relatively easy scene to anti-alias.

Its far away from the 'footage' we saw. Just as was the case with WD.

 

[RandyBobandy]

As I said, the "avoid discussion" thing is obviously false because this causes far more. They don't care about discussion. Only a tiny % of AAA game buyers discuss this stuff on forums, and of those many will buy their shit anyway, regardless of news like this.

Occam's razor leads us to MS literally paying them money to technically gut the PS4 version, to make the PS4 version artificially worse for PS4 users. There is no other motive or reason I can think of.

And that's.... Well, wow, that's just bad. I wish I could say they'd pay for this, but they won't, because people will buy AC anyway.

#Tinfoilhat

 

[noobasuar]

I love that this is the reason people aren't buying this game and not the fact that all these games have shit mission design and gameplay.

What a world.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

I'm more interested in the CPU comment. MS and Sony should have put in a little better CPU, not these netbook jaguars. We're a year in and devs are already severely limited by the CPUs, especially for these open-world games with tons of NPCs.