Yet BioWare have not fixed outstanding, mission-breaking issues that have been in place since launch and still treat PC gamers with utter contempt by serving up a pathetic, careless console port whilst expecting PC gamers to pay the same price as console gamers.
The management at BioWare need to be dragged outside and flogged. The company's founders should be ashamed.
@Navardo95 @mostevilmuppet @Anigmar I honestly suspect the PS4 version may be, initially, graphically superior.
The bare metal advantage coupled with a huge amount of high-bandwidth memory (more so than any current graphics board) and the likely hardware texture decompression acceleration Sony has thrown at the PS4 is likely to allow for superior graphics.
That said, it takes time to get the best out of a platform and that ingredient is currently absent from PS4 development.
@Anigmar I agree with your statement. That said, the fact that PC gamers do provide the benefits to the publisher/developer that I've mentioned many times give weight to my argument.
The main thing PC gamers would be served by with the rise of Nextgen consoles is textures that are not as scaled down from the original art assets (at least in the short-to-medium term). Ironically, the PS4 will be able to handle higher resolution textures than the vast, vast majority of mid-to-high end PCs, but this is a temporary situation.
Unless something unique to the PS4 enables the PS4 version to be "the one to play", Ubisoft are doing a terrible disservice to PC gamers.
PC gamers pay the same price as console gamers, put up with release delays, often do not incur the cost of physical media and packaging (further improving margins) and do not require the developer and/or publisher to pay royalties to any of Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo.
If the close-to-the-metal development the PS4 facilitates is part of the reasoning for this Ubisoft statement, then Ubisoft's basis is very shortsighted given the inevitable evolution of PC processing power, GPU performance and other metrics.
@max-hit @mostevilmuppet I admit, I spent a lot of time getting full sync. I can see there are bugs in places, the Assassin development system is terrible, the lack of skill build over time needs work and so on.
I don't understand your commend about "ACIII did don't look good on PC"...
@emperiox @mostevilmuppet @max-hit I don't follow.
I own all three 7th generation consoles and a PC and game on all three. At the same time, I happily paid for ACIII and everything else in my Steam library.
I even brought myself to install Origin and pay those inept dopes at EA and BioWare for the pathetic console port that was Mass Effect 3.
As long as Ubisoft continue their trend of providing proper PC versions of their games (unlike those inexcusably inept sods at BioWare), I'll be happy to buy their games.
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