Hope I can run this at 4k. Im interested what the requirements are for that.

It's a lot easier for developers to get games running on consoles because of experience and only having to worry about 1 type of hardware. A PC with similar specs compared to a console is not gonna run games as well as the console would. It would be different if developers only had to worry about 1 type of PC. I'm just comparing baseline performance between the two when it comes to minimum requirements. Consoles always win if the computer has similar specs.

Seems to be the same as pre delay

Minimum

• Supported OS: Windows Vista SP2 64bit, Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8 64bit
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.66Ghz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0Ghz
• RAM: 6 GB
• Video Card: 1024 VRAM DirectX 11 with Shader Model 5.0 (see supported list)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible Sound Card
• This product supports 64-bit operating systems ONLY

Recommended

• Processor: Core i7 3770 @ 3.5Ghz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0Ghz
• RAM: 8 GB
• Video Card: 2048 VRAM DirectX 11 with Shader Model 5.0 or higher (see supported list)
• Sound Card: Surround Sound 5.1 capable sound card
• Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:
• nVidia GeForce GTX460 or better, GT500, GT600, GT700 series;
• AMD Radeon HD5850 or better, HD6000, HD7000, R7 and R9 series
• Intel® Iris™ Pro HD 5200

What do you think Zarx? 780ti run it at 4k?

If not then damn, no card will except maybe a Titan Black, and I really don't want to SLI 2 780ti's as the amount of gains Id get really isn't worth the cost. It would suck if nothing can 4k this until the 800 series.

Hard to say at this point,  but probably not if Black Flag is any indication

Howver it's running a new engine so maybe it won't suffer from the same issues as the recent Assassin's Creed games (which from what I have read are poorly optimised and don't scale across multiple CPU cores and are sevearly CPU limiited), and they are using Havok+Custom tech for physics instead of PhysX so there is hope. On the other hand they seem to be reccomending 2GB VRAM and presumably that is for 1080p the extra RAM required for 4K may cause stuttering on a 3GB card depending on how versitile their streaming tech is and how much they allow you to increase draw distance and NPD density in the PC version.

Very true, I should at the very least be able to play it in 1440p or so though maxed I would think.

Though honestly those benchmarks don't look right. I get 60fps on Bioshock at 4k and I only have a single 780ti.

That's...pretty steep. Hopefully my laptop can do thst but damn, for minimum settings that is high.

welcome to the future.

I truly hope your laptop doesn't explode the moment you try to play Watch Dogs on it!

So one more bad optimized next gen game that will demand a powerful hardware without good graphics? Things are becoming completely ridiculous right now. First, Thief, now this following the same path.