Assassin's Creed Unity Runs at 900p/30fps on Xbox One and PS4 to "Avoid Debates" [Update]

Why don't you people Google AMD kabini performance to see why these consoles both suck

Everyone here is assuming it was the PS4 version that was held back. In reality, the PS4 version was held back by it's limitations as the Xbox version was by its'. Having the amount of chars on screen they're dealing with *IS* crazy CPU bound. And it's pretty much ALL CPU-intensive integer calculations (AI, placement, object states). It also has a lot of triangles on screen. Both systems can draw the triangles fine, but each shader pass burns fill rate. Usually, *USUALLY* the PS4 has GPU to spare and has the fill rate to draw fine at 1080p, BUT, and it's a big BUT, they had to compensate for the PS4's ultra-crap implementation of the CPU cores and the limitation of clock, cache and number of cores effectively available to game for calculation by offloading much of the processing that SHOULD be done on CPU, but cant, to the GPU. So this really is the first true next-gen game which is testing the limits of both systems. PS4s wasting tons of GFlops on GPGPU to keep up with the CPU rate on Xbox One. GPGPU is inherently inefficient for integer operations.

Xbox One is and has been a GPU issue from the start. They offer enough GPU to hit 1080p 60 depending on the game type. But in a game like unity, it's actually remarkable they're hitting 900p. This is clearly a case where the superior execution order and number of cores and speed available to the Xbone CPUs is paying off. They designed it to not have any single bottleneck. The whole system generally becomes a bottleneck and then you optimize around that. Gen7-type games excelled on PS4, because the CPU loads were almost non-existent. Now that the CPUs are getting maxed, The Xbone will see parity or superiority because of it's discrete audio processor, move engines, etc. PS4 counts on having extra GPU cycles to cover where the hardware is otherwise lacking. At launch, all reasonable people said the machines were pretty much identical, but took different routes to get there. Expect more of this as the generation progresses.

And get over it. PS4 people didn't bitch when Watch Dogs was 900p, or BF4, or any of that. They only bitch when their number isn't higher than Xbone. How childish can you get?!? Grow up.

Also,

900p\30fps? Current PC hardware can run it at 1440p\144fps or 2880p\60fps.

So they intentionally lowered quality of the final product. Not just this seems terribly biased, but lazy on their part. So please lower the final price of the item too.

Damn, what an idiotic thing to say, they are reaching XBO PR levels.

It's red hot on Twitter. Check out #ps4noparity

Unity, good one Ubi.

1. Lawl, thanks Xbox.

2. Lawl, NEXT GEN IS HERE!

LOL, let us not have disparity.

Wow Ubisoft are really trying to beat EA at the "worst company awards" They will not be getting a dime from me, same treatment as EA, Activision and the rest of the bunch.

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This will make people hate the Xbox One more.

This is rather lame. I own a Ps4. I don't want it hampered due to other platforms limitations. >.< I rrreeaaalllllly hope this doesn't become a norm this gen....