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Well this has escalated quickly. Wait for price drop + post gameplay/resolution patch. Seems like the best course of action.

 

[leadbelly]

I don't think his comment is supposed to be taken as the CPU is really restrictive and instead the CPUs are the same so why not lock the GPUs too?

Still would be interesting to know how well these consoles would perform with a better CPU. Not only are the CPUs weak, they only have access to 6 cores.

 

[JimPanzer]

Godspeed this thread.

I don't think it's that serious but wow, the reactions. Am I the only one who doesn't necessarily think this is a huge problem but more like an honest but bullshit comment.

At least they were honest about why they didn't do it.

Isn't that what we wanted? Transparency?

this whole thing doen't seem transparent at all. shady business deals etc.

 

[googleplex]

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

Translation, we're entering into a co-marketing deal with Microsoft.


What the actual fuck! Won't be buying. I refuse to support shit like this.

 

[TalentBurke]

Only bought two Ubisoft games in my life, Rayman Legends and WatchDogs, they'll never get another penny from me. I was planning on buying The Division, not anymore.

 

[Bold One]

so their line of logic was to implement parity to avoid debates about parity?

 

[xXBaconXx]

I don't know how much the rest of you know about French culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in France, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the french public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase Assassins Creed Unity for either system, nor will they purchase any of Ubisofts's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Ubisoft has alienated an entire market with this move.

Ubisoft, publicly apologize and make Asssassins Creed Unity 1080p/60 FPS on PS4 or you can kiss your business goodbye.

The irony is that this copy pasta is how people are actually treating this news. I remember this same shit happening for Watch Dogs when it was 900p 30fps for PS4 and the same comments happened

"Oh I'm cancelling my pre order"

"Oh thanks ubisoft for making the decission not to buy your game easier"

And Watch Dogs ends up being the best debut for a new IP from ubisoft.

Fuck I think GAF has gotten even more hilarious when it comes to this resolution outrage. People are cancelling pocket watch pre orders.

This shit is fucking hilarious.

Thank god I read that entire thing.

 

[Danielsan]

Ooh piss off Ubisoft.

 

[Carn82]

The CPU's arent great, but why does the framerate turn crap when NPC-crowds get into view? Sounds like a GPU/bandwith issue to me.

 

[Alcoholikaust]

Looks like Mordor will be the only open world game I buy this year.

Shadows of Mordor should be what every Assassin's creed fan should be playing right now

 

[Kayant]

The reasoning is stupid/silly because they are creating what they wanted to supposedly avoid "Debate". It will happen either way and a pretty lame excuse.

 

[superNESjoe]

So where's the Watch Dogs patch to make every version look like the 360 version?

 

[Zuhzuhzombie!!]

speak with your money not bitching bout it on forums

Well I wasn't gonna buy it anyway....

 

[jayu26]

Godspeed this thread.

I don't think it's that serious but wow, the reactions. Am I the only one who doesn't necessarily think this is a huge problem but more like an honest but bullshit comment.

At least they were honest about why they didn't do it.

Isn't that what we wanted? Transparency?

Being transparent does not give them freedom to do shit like this. It's like saying "I'm racist, I admit it, so I get to say N-word all I want"...

 

[Peterpan]

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

I will check it out. Last Ubisoft game I played on PC was Black flag and it ran fairly well enough, but it stuttered like crazy. I checked on the internet and everyone complained it was poorly optmized, so maybe I am crazy.
Maybe it was just my PC, but it ran Crysis 3 on high at a solid 40-50fps, I don't want to turn this into a Ubisoft
PC thread and if you want I will send you my PC specs and pictures, but I had major issues with Black flag, just stopped playing it.

 

[SJRB]

So :

-900p
-Sub 30 fps
-Aliasing everywhere

Any other shit?

Crowd is still janky immersion-breaking garbage.

 

[Xyrmellon]

Is this company-wide policy now?? Wonder if they'll do it for Far Cry....

 

[Akzel]

I really don't mind at all .. still playing it on my future PS4.

 

[Pyrrhus]

Guess I'm buying it for 7.50 in 2 years on Steam, then.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

What if they had a watch dogs situation and the game was 900p on PS4 and they bumped the Xbox version up from 720 for parity rather than bringing the ps4 down from 1080p?

 

[gamechanger87]

Am I hallucinating or did you post the same thing earlier in the thread?

You aren't hallucinating, I reposted because it got shunted at the bottom of the other page. Outside of his stupid comment, people need to realize that both consoles are really gimped on the CPU side and I have a feeling this won't be the only time we hear about devs complaining about it.

 

[Minions]

Fuck I think GAF has gotten even more hilarious when it comes to this resolution outrage. People are cancelling pocket watch pre orders.

This shit is fucking hilarious.

To be fair I never bought watchdogs after I canceled it, and after waiting this long I have no desire to play it anymore.

 

[BruiserBear]

I can't help but think he just explained this really poorly, because he then goes on to say they're CPU bound, and both consoles are nearly identical on that front.

 

[Struct09]

Still getting the game for PS4 because I think it looks like a lot of fun, but that's just silly.

 

[Mung]

so their line of logic was to implement parity to avoid debates about parity?

Yes that's bullshit. Moneybags is the real reason. They would never admit that though.

 

[megabytecr]

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

Great!! C´mon guys, the powah of the net, lol!

 

[thekiddfran]

All this is doing is creating more debates. Ubisoft dun goofed

 

[jett]

What amazing reasoning. :lol

 

[BibiMaghoo]

This is absolute nonsense. If your scenario were true, console gaming would be dead, and the PS3 would never have sold as many multi platform games as it did.

If people want a game, they buy it for the console they own, and if they have multiple consoles, the best version of the game based on their requirements.

No, you can play the fool all you want, but if you don't understand that people will lean towards the better version of a game, then I don't know what to say to you. You are clearly not thinking about it clearly. Me saying that some may not buy the game if it's better on a system they do not own - something suggested in this thread by more than just me - does not mean everyone will or would do so, as you have responded. I'm not sure what you think you are calling out here with your 'even for you' comment and calling my opinions nonsense because you do not agree with them, but I suggest you stop before you embarrass yourself further.

 

[BronsonLee]

You're a reasonable person Seanspeed...

LOL WHAT

Is this company-wide policy now?? Wonder if they'll do it for Far Cry....

Ooh, that's a good question.

 

[Hidden One]

Not buying Ubisoft.

 

[krypt0nian]

No debates. No sale though.

Let me know when this is 1080p.

 

[StrikeFirst117]

Well that is fucking stupid, was considering this with my PS4 when I got it, instead I'm going to vote with my wallet and not purchase AC, everyone else who has a problem with it should do the same as well as the twitter campaign, companies as arrogant as this only listen when their money is being burned.

 

[Turin Turambar]

Yeah, because forced parity to avoid debates isn't going to spark off a debate, lol.

 

[stay gold]

Dick move by Ubisoft, but with marketing deals and an internet crammed with hyperbolic morons, it's not surprising that it's come to this.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Im ok with it.

 

[mrklaw]

Wonder if there will be a magical day one 1080p patch? Maybe the co-marketing requires parity at launch from MS?

CPU bound shouldn't affect resolution.

 

[Tidus_Great]

cancelled my preorder. no 1080p no buy. ps4 can clearly do 1080p, parity is nonsense

 

[Durante]

What happened to GPGPU compute? Not there yet or not something that could solve their AI issue? I thought It was supposed to be the coolest.

You don't just move arbitrary code to the GPU, especially not AI. People always expected too much from that in this regard.

 

[Script_Flipper]

You did not read the OP did you?

I did. aren't both consoles capable of it? And isn't it's purpose to make up for the shortcomings of the consoles CPU's?

 

[Vizzeh]

Just tweeted Ubisoft with my disaproval of this, absolute joke of a decision from them, I wouldn't be surprised if Msoft funded it either, otherwise why do it??

 

[JetBlackPanda]

You aren't hallucinating, I reposted because it got shunted at the bottom of the other page. Outside of his stupid comment, people need to realize that both consoles are really gimped on the CPU side and I have a feeling this won't be the only time we hear about devs complaining about it.

Praise be to AZURE.

 

[TheSlySoul]

Flash sale it is then, I still have not finished Black Flag anyways...

 

[JimmyRustler]

I don't know how much the rest of you know about French culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in France, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the french public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase Assassins Creed Unity for either system, nor will they purchase any of Ubisofts's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Ubisoft has alienated an entire market with this move.

Ubisoft, publicly apologize and make Asssassins Creed Unity 1080p/60 FPS on PS4 or you can kiss your business goodbye.

The irony is that this copy pasta is how people are actually treating this news. I remember this same shit happening for Watch Dogs when it was 900p 30fps for PS4 and the same comments happened

"Oh I'm cancelling my pre order"

"Oh thanks ubisoft for making the decission not to buy your game easier"

And Watch Dogs ends up being the best debut for a new IP from ubisoft.

Fuck I think GAF has gotten even more hilarious when it comes to this resolution outrage. People are cancelling pocket watch pre orders.

This shit is fucking hilarious.

Well, I can only speak for myself but I haven't bought Watch Dogs to this day because of the resolution issue. I'm kinda sad so many people did cause maybe Unity would be 1080p now.
Anyway, I don't see why you are wondering that many people complain. We value clear picture and 1080p ensures that. If a game doesn't have that the. i simply won't buy it.

 

[vpance]

What happened to GPGPU compute? Not there yet or not something that could solve their AI issue? I thought It was supposed to be the coolest.

It would definitely help, if they're not using it for the crowds and such. PS4 architecture is set up for that, Bone, not really.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

What a dumb statement, honestly. Tone-deaf way to go about it. I'm still getting it. It'll sell gangbusters.

 

[DeviantBoi]

I'm glad this came in early Monday morning.. can't wait to hear this week's podcasts, especially the Bombcast.

 

[nib95]

I can't help but think he just explained this really poorly, because he then goes on to say they're CPU bound, and both consoles are nearly identical on that front.

But that's partly what they have Compute/GPGPU improvements for.

 

[dampflokfreund]

Their AI engine is TERRIBLE optimized, don't blame it to the jaguar cpus, Ubisoft.

 

[FairXchange]

Makes no sense for the PS4 and Xbox One version to be locked at the same spec artificially, we know the PS4 is capable of more.