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

Where are these ppl u speak of?

<< LINK REMOVED >> Well now thx to xbone holding back gaming, we will no longer see an improvement in consoles.

<< LINK REMOVED >> Ubisoft pushes games out too quickly. They don't take time to properly optimize.

<< LINK REMOVED >> Assuming more games don't become console exclusives because the parity will have no place on PC.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Considering that the PS4 is only 50% more powerful, 1080/60 would have never happened anyway.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> no the crappy AMD CPU is

<< LINK REMOVED >> I agree, but I've experienced trying to talk Intel down on their bulk CPU prices. They're relentless. They probably saved a ton of money by using AMD.

<< LINK REMOVED >> Devs have always considered the lower platform performance when factoring cross-platform development in. Past gen was essentially the same thing with PS3 hardware a bit more superior to the Xbox 360 (owned both at the time). The market has always done a standardization based on the weakest hardware. PC gamers suffer this since like, forever, where they usually have superior hardware available to them and yet they get a "limited" version due to consoles. Big companies need to cut back on costs as much as possible, especially on todays market where an indie has a shot (longshot, but a shot nonetheless that has happened several times in recent past) to compete with large publishers.

We all know Watchdogs (Ubisoft) to have suffered the same thing, the engine could handle better and differently on PC yet they lowered down the content to avoid giving a partner (Sony, Microsoft, etc..) any preference and reaching the largest audience possible regardless of their platform of choice.

It is cheaper to make your dev team port a game then develop it further for each platform. Headcount/payroll is and always has been the most expensive atribute of any company, so to avoid cutting jobs and losing talent (funny how large publishers don't care much about talent retention), they cut on stuff like this.

This is without considering a potential political situation with large partners like Sony and Microsoft, who knows how big publishers deal with console manufactures, I would guess they have more interaction with console manufacturers than the average developer thus, maybe, enforcing some ill practices to undermine their competitor (a bit much on conspiracy though if we pursue this line of thought).

Last but not least, PS4 owners are not really getting screwed because it will come down to the exclusives, and those will always shine the brightest possible way. I do not own a PS4 at this time, I do own a XBONE which is slowly gathering dust here, hopefully something like Crackdown 3 or a new Gears of War that is actually good could revert to that, but right now I am getting these multi platform games on the PC where I don't have to deal with backward compatibility issues in the future (as it has happened with current gen).

I believe Sony players get PS4 for its exclusive titles and the ocasional game that does try to take more advantage from that platform, if you got a PS4 for the cookie cutters Call of Duty, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed, those titles have little difference between platforms (as far as annoying me goes), so again, I don't think this screws the player base, but it is sad to waste the additional potential of better hardware, that I can agree with you on.

<< LINK REMOVED >> A resolution change does not change the AI, only an FPS change does. They are completely BS'ing.

<< LINK REMOVED >> I dunno. Launch X360 games wasnt the prettiest and wasnt the smoothest.
X1 came with Forza 5 which blew me away.

<< LINK REMOVED >> It will do 10 times worse than they expected. The hate is going to flow even worse than it did before.

<< LINK REMOVED >> because they lied about, it not the reason why.

@steaminpotatoes Dead Rising 3 for PC installs at a forced 720p setting with all config options set to emulate the way it looked on the Xbox One. You have to go in and fix the settings so it looks like a real PC game. Watch Dogs isn't the only PC game effected by the ghetto box.