Assassin's Creed Unity is 900p/30fps on both PS4 & Xbox One

Assassin's Creed Unity will run at 900p/30fps on both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Ubisoft has confirmed, with the publisher opting to aim for platform parity to avoid discussion over the differences in performance.

"We decided to lock them at the same specs to avoid all the debates and stuff," senior producer Vincent Pontbriand told VideoGamer.com while explaining that it's the consoles' CPUs – not the GPU – that prevents Ubisoft Montreal from improving the game's performance.

"Technically we're CPU-bound," he said. "The GPUs are really powerful, obviously the graphics look pretty good, but it's the CPU [that] has to process the AI, the number of NPCs we have on screen, all these systems running in parallel.

"We were quickly bottlenecked by that and it was a bit frustrating, because we thought that this was going to be a tenfold improvement over everything AI-wise, and we realised it was going to be pretty hard. It's not the number of polygons that affect the framerate. We could be running at 100fps if it was just graphics, but because of AI, we're still limited to 30 frames per second."

Last year's Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag also shipped at 900p/30fps on both PS4 and Xbox One. A post-release patch, however, bumped the PS4 version to 1080p. Ubisoft has given no indication that it has plans to do the same for Unity.

Assassin's Creed Unity launches on PS4, Xbox One and PC on November 14.

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So PS4 version intentionally held back?

Poor form Ubi.

Well I'm not buying it, why buy a gymped version due to another platform being weak.

Give me the quality my platform easily pulls, not handicap it by another.

Sorry ubi you lost a sale here with your pc bsness likely motivated by MS $.

I will treat them as they treat PS4 owners. I will get used. They wont get my money.

As someone who was hyped for this game, what a bunch of BS. I'll buy this second hand because Parity is a bunch of BS. Holding back the PS4 just because MS put out an underpowered machine is in no way reasonable.  I'd rather my money go to Gamestop. 

Looks like it. They're basically saying they pushed the XB1 version to the highest quality they could in terms of framerate en resolution, and then decided to just use those for the PS4 version. This seems like a case of the XB1's hardware holding back the PS4's version of the game.

now its even worse.

Lame! PC version it is, unless they lock that too.

Wow that's horrendous. No buy

I'm starting to think that maybe there's something to the MS paying out third party devs at this poitns. Seemed like a stupid conspiracy but seriously, this is ridiculous.