Assassin's Creed "Parity": Unity is 900p/30fps on both PS4 & Xbox One
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Zen_Arcade
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People aren't mad at the resolution difference so much as they're mad at the reasoning for the resolution difference. The vast majority of the people in this thread aren't threatening to cancel their preorder for the game just because it's not 1080p.
It's a shitty business move by Ubisoft that pretty much says "We are going to downgrade a PS4 game just so the people who own a One don't feel bad." If people keep buying into shit like that then it's going to start a trend of laziness in Ubisoft's games where they only put enough effort in to make it run on the less powerful of the two systems.
It's not that hard to understand. I think the Assassin's Creed games are awful and even I think this is a shitty thing to do.
Exactly.
I think you missed my point. It's ironic that they wanted to prevent the "debate," and yet ended up with more debate than they ever would have had they not done and said this.
Delusibeta
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While Arthur Gies is reviews editor? I fully expect the PS4 version to get a point knocked off for some bullshit reason.
Lol, well he's being honest instead of telling people to chill or that their making a deal over nothing..
Night Angel
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Sword Of Doom
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If you think people boycotting and complaining doesn't matter then you have no idea what you are talking about
They're marketing the AC Unity with the Xbox one so it makes sense to have parity for this game
bananafactory
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I'm also an Xbone owner and it's fucking disgraceful.
FairXchange
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Yeah, no. It's well within their scope, budget and means to make a game run at 1080p. Considering the fact that the majority of games on PS4 run at 1080p, it is absolutely no stretch of the imagination that it is not only feasible, but practical to deliver at this spec. Their previous game hit this specification on the platform, after launch because it was shipped at "parity" with the Xbox One version. Ubisoft is deciding whats best for PS4 gamers not based on hardware capability, but politics. They said themselves "to avoid debates", nothing to do with ROI or any other excuse someone can think up.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Don't worry, it will come back to bite you some day.
The quote in the OP states that the framerate is limited by the CPU. Assuming that's true, then changing the resolution shouldn't have an impact on the performance. The 'raw' difference between the two is about such that whatever the Xbone can run at 900p, the PS4 can run at 1080p.
And I was clipped in my reply, but what I meant is that although MS 'lose out' in each of those scenarios, they are only 'losing out' because they made stupid decisions in the first place. But if they start enforcing parity by making developers lock the PS4 to the Xbone version, then PS4 owners are losing out too. So, given that whatever happens MS is taking flak, why should PS4 owners also lose out?
MS's business tactics are appalling. I really have absolutely no respect for the company and I hope that this is their last generation in the business.
That's the reason this thread is so large. Everyone now has accepted that the PS4 is more powerful, and so to hear that Ubi has locked both specs to math each other when we know that the PS4 can be pushed farther is disconcerting to some. Honestly if they would have just said the same about Unity as they did for Watchdogs, I would have been fine. I dont care if it's 900p if that is the best the developer can do.
TheAngryMonkey
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Did you not read the article? Once again. You might be potentially right, but that's not what Ubisoft said. They said they are making both versions the same to avoid "debates and stuff".
Has any game studio ever actually said it didn't make financial sense to do something? Seems like they go out of their way to avoid talking about how they actually go about making a profit on something.
serversurfer
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If MS succeed in pressuring all third parties in to delivering graphics parity, then it will only be the PS4 exclusives which make full use of the console. Writing off the superior performance of the PlayStation "because exclusive" worked pretty well with the PS3, so it would probably work with the PS4 too.
Of course, now the PS4 is decidedly more powerful than its competitor, and it's easier to work with from both a tools and hardware perspective, so now "because exclusive" is a little harder to swallow than it was with PS3, especially since we've already seen games that clearly demonstrate otherwise.
Ironically, you're right; this isn't the best strategy for Ubi long term. By artificially propping up sales of XBone hardware, they're actually just insuring increased development costs for themselves for the remainder of the generation. From Ubi's perspective, if everyone got on the PlayStation bandwagon as quickly as possible, it would just lower all of their development costs going forward, and leave them with a single, powerful, easy-to-develop-for platform to support. So not only would they be spending less money to make their games, they'd have greater possibilities in making them.
It might be worth waiting until Dragon Age's features (on consoles) are confirmed. Dragon Age is another game that has a co-marketing deal between Microsoft and EA.
And you felt the need to state this in a topic like this why now?
Edit: ahhh you just having fun. lol
I swear it would be hilarious if my theory is right. I wonder if we will ever truly find out. Is it Microsoft being shady, or just huge development issues due to a new engine? Only time will tell lol
Ricky Ricardo
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Perhaps you could explain what I'm missing?
Zurick
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I was gonna say something pertaining to a "nothing is true" to follow up with you but then I realized we'd be having the LOTR speech from Clerks 2...
Fuck it. How many times (did you beat them?)
Brilliant.
That's hilarious.
Solaire of Astora
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Far too late for that.
Yeah, it's a real knee-slapper.
WarMacheen
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Tweet level: Yusuf Mehdi
Already posted?
This man is a senior writer at Polygon.
Based on how console sales are going this generation, I'd say Owen is doing a great job of alienating more than half of his potential readers.
Smooth.
Always-honest
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If true, Bye Assassins Creed Unity. Glad i didn't preorder. Last showing looked downgraded anyway.
Kssio_Aug
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So somehow them holding back the PS4 enhances the power of the XB1?
They never said they held back the PS4.
Hoho for breakfast
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I think you should re-read what is going on here and then try and decide if that comment is actually pertinent to this discussion.
Since I don't think you'll actually do that I'll give you a hint. This isn't about resolution, it's about parity (like the title of the thread states). Hope this helps.
I'm surprised that so many people were expecting the PS4 version to be 1080p. After Watch Dogs, I was fully expecting 1600 x 900 from the get go. And I think the producer misspoke. He probably meant that they were targeting the same spec, ala Assassin's Creed 2 and 3 on the PS3 and 360. In those cases, they targeted the same spec, but they sure as hell weren't locked there. And I fully expect this to be a similar case where one version (PS4) has a more stable performance.
The Shogun
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Im confused whats happening here?
Did Dragon Age confirm their resolution or something?
Shpeshal Nick
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So will AC movie Bluray only output in 480 so DVD owners don't feel left out?
bananafactory
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Wasn't that thread pretty huge too?
Ubisoft won't be releasing M-Rated games on WiiU anymore (after Watch Dogs) because nobody buys them.
You mean left out and stuff.
And DA points to 900p on PS4...
WarMacheen
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I think you missed the thread about that, because there was an uproar indeed.
plasmawave
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That's hilarious.
That little bit faster clock speed amounts to nothing. You can supposedly still get more out the PS4's CPU i think. And it has GPU compute.
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