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Since 6653 Days

Potentially adding AC4 to the non 1080p pile on the xbone. Should we just assume all games are sub-1080p? I feel like it'd be easier?

Last week, we brought you news of Bungie’s Destiny possibly running at a sub-1080p on the Xbox One in its alpha phase, based on the words of a tester.

"It appears that the latest entrant in Ubisoft’s popular franchise, Assassin’s Creed, suffers a similar fate on Microsoft’s next-gen console. During the latest episode of his weekly show, Annoyed Gamer, game journalist Marcus Beer briefly talks about a visible difference between the two next-gen console versions of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. According to him, the Xbox One version looks “fuzzier” and “strained”, while the PS4 version looks “sharper”, “crisper”, and has “better draw distances”.

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Redneck

Since 6937 Days

Posted by KORNdog

Potentially adding AC4 to the non 1080p pile on the xbone. Should we just assume all games are sub-1080p? I feel like it'd be easier?

Last week, we brought you news of Bungie’s Destiny possibly running at a sub-1080p on the Xbox One in its alpha phase, based on the words of a tester.

"It appears that the latest entrant in Ubisoft’s popular franchise, Assassin’s Creed, suffers a similar fate on Microsoft’s next-gen console. During the latest episode of his weekly show, Annoyed Gamer, game journalist Marcus Beer briefly talks about a visible difference between the two next-gen console versions of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. According to him, the Xbox One version looks “fuzzier” and “strained”, while the PS4 version looks “sharper”, “crisper”, and has “better draw distances”.

Man, those comparisions are getting annoying.

Look at the hardware, do the math, we all know that XBone games will look worse than PS4 since february.
Its like everyone starts counting pixels just to point out this fact over and over and over and over again.

Comparisions allready were stupid enough this gen, but at least it wasn't obvious in the first place which versions was the better.

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[quote=KORNdog]Potentially adding AC4 to the non 1080p pile on the xbone. Should we just assume all games are sub-1080p? I feel like it'd be easier?

Last week, we brought you news of Bungie’s Destiny possibly running at a sub-1080p on the Xbox One in its alpha phase, based on the words of a tester.

"It appears that the latest entrant in Ubisoft’s popular franchise, Assassin’s Creed, suffers a similar fate on Microsoft’s next-gen console. During the latest episode of his weekly show, Annoyed Gamer, game journalist Marcus Beer briefly talks about a visible difference between the two next-gen console versions of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. According to him, the Xbox One version looks “fuzzier” and “strained”, while the PS4 version looks “sharper”, “crisper”, and has “better draw distances”.[/quote]
Man, those comparisions are getting annoying.

Look at the hardware, do the math, we all know that XBone games will look worse than PS4 since february. 
Its like everyone starts counting pixels just to point out this fact over and over and over and over again.

Comparisions allready were stupid enough this gen, but at least it wasn't obvious in the first place which versions was the better.

They tookor jeabs

Since 7946 Days

Article from Ars Technica
The Xbox One and PS4 share similar specs, but the devil’s in the details

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/the-xbox-one...

[quote=Ars Technica last paragraph]Microsoft and Sony will bend over backwards to tell you how different one console (their console) is from the competition, but in the end the boxes are very, very similar, even if they're not identical. If early games are any indication, the PS4's beefier GPU will give it the performance edge in the long term, but this console war is one that will be fought primarily with software and services, not with silicon.
.[/quote]

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Since 7946 Days

And another from Ars Technica on the history of generational leaps of Consoles.

Does the power of today’s consoles keep up with historical trends?

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/does-the-pow...

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Phaethon360

Since 7095 Days

Jim Sterling on Resolution - http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimqui...

Sooo good. I recommend everyone in this thread watch it.

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Since 7946 Days

Posted by Phaethon360

Jim Sterling on Resolution - http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimqui...

Sooo good. I recommend everyone in this thread watch it.

Too true on all counts. But 4K content becoming as common as HD content is today anytime soon is a joke. Won't happen for a decade, about the time that the PS4 and Xbox2 comes out.

1m42s to 2m42s, is damn spot on.

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GriftGFX

Since 7249 Days

4K content aint a decade away at all.

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Since 7946 Days

4K content is available right friggin now, but as I said "4K content becoming as common as HD content is today" is an impossibility. I have over 100 HD channels available to me today on my cable system 4K isn't going to be anywhere near 100 channels in 10 years.

It bankrupted a lot of small market stations in the US, when the mandated switch to HD came about.

With people watching postage stamp material on phones, and tablets, compressed h264s, and worse... HD is going to be good enough for the masses for years to come.

4K will be a niche item, and will just start gaining a foothold in 10 years. Again you saying in less than 10 years time 4K will be as common as HD is right now... right!?!

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scoobs0688

Since 5884 Days

You can buy a 4K TV for a grand right now... it is certainly not 10 years away lol. Its probably 5 or 6 years before mainstream acceptance though.

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Since 6653 Days

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-v...

dead rising digital foundry analysis. ouch.

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Seth

Since 6335 Days

''It's also unfortunate that the game runs at far from the promised locked 30fps - rather a chugging 20fps during the zombie action while out in the big city. ''

Well, after terribad performance of Dead Rising 2 no one should be surprised. These guys can't code for shit. The game is not even a looker, so no excuses for them.

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rayy

Since 7223 Days

Posted by Seth

''It's also unfortunate that the game runs at far from the promised locked 30fps - rather a chugging 20fps during the zombie action while out in the big city. ''

Well, after terribad performance of Dead Rising 2 no one should be surprised. These guys can't code for shit. The game is not even a looker, so no excuses for them.

It is a open world game though, but still this game should be at least 60 FPS if is going to be 720p. Xone is capable enough for that.

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http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/5/5052646/call-of-d...

Since 5437 Days

Stead as she goes...

While the Xbox One version of Call of Duty: Ghosts has been confirmed by Activision to run at a lower resolution than its PS4 counterpart (720p upscaled to 1080p native, respectively), that numerical difference is less meaningful than you might imagine.

The two versions look nearly identical. Viewing the Xbox One release next to the PS4 , I had difficulty telling them apart. It's possible that the PS4 version looked somewhat sharper, but that may have just been my imagination after confirming the hard resolution difference. The next-gen releases of Call of Duty: Ghosts are so close together that gun to my head, I'd have no confidence in being able to discern which version was which — at least, while the two are standing still.

The Xbox One release's framerate was far more noticeable. As mentioned in the initial review, Call of Duty: Ghosts suffers from consistent framerate drops on the PS4, especially during multiplayer when action got especially hectic. The Xbox One version suffered no such drops, maintaining a steady 60 frames per second throughout.

For a multiplayer shooter, framerate consistency is paramount. Given its relative visual parity with the PS4 release, Call of Duty: Ghosts is a more playable, slightly superior (albeit disappointing) game on Xbox One.

Xbox One score: 7.0

PS4 score: 6.5

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Stead as she goes...

[quote]While the Xbox One version of Call of Duty: Ghosts has been confirmed by Activision to run at a lower resolution than its PS4 counterpart (720p upscaled to 1080p native, respectively), that numerical difference is less meaningful than you might imagine.

The two versions look nearly identical. Viewing the Xbox One release next to the PS4 , I had difficulty telling them apart. It's possible that the PS4 version looked somewhat sharper, but that may have just been my imagination after confirming the hard resolution difference. The next-gen releases of Call of Duty: Ghosts are so close together that gun to my head, I'd have no confidence in being able to discern which version was which — at least, while the two are standing still.

The Xbox One release's framerate was far more noticeable. [b]As mentioned in the initial review, Call of Duty: Ghosts suffers from consistent framerate drops on the PS4, especially during multiplayer when action got especially hectic. The Xbox One version suffered no such drops, maintaining a steady 60 frames per second throughout.[/b]

For a multiplayer shooter, framerate consistency is paramount. Given its relative visual parity with the PS4 release, Call of Duty: Ghosts is a more playable, slightly superior (albeit disappointing) game on Xbox One.

Xbox One score: 7.0

PS4 score: 6.5[/quote]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/5/5052646/call-of-duty-ghosts-review

Jollipop

Since 7132 Days

Posted by scoobs0688

You can buy a 4K TV for a grand right now... it is certainly not 10 years away lol. Its probably 5 or 6 years before mainstream acceptance though.

I am pretty sure that 4k will never be mainstream, most people don't even care about HD.

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Since 6653 Days

Polygon...

Lol

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GriftGFX

Since 7249 Days

Posted by Jollipop

I am pretty sure that 4k will never be mainstream, most people don't even care about HD.

It being "mainstream" or "as big as HD is today" doesn't really have much of any impact on Jim Sterling's point. A 720p console on the verge of 4K is a ridiculous prospect.

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Since 5437 Days

IGN and Gamespot said the same thing i heard?, guess we will know when more reviews come in.

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Since 6653 Days

Posted by sanex

IGN and Gamespot said the same thing i heard?, guess we will know when more reviews come in.

DF or bust when it comes to this stuff. Based on what polygon have said i expect no drops in framerate AT ALL when digital foundry do their tech analysis.

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Since 5437 Days

Guess we will find out soon enough.

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