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Hynad on 04 April 2013
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Nsanity said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Nsanity said:
RenderMonk said:
The main differences between the PC version and PS4 version is the lighting and particle effects. Where an extremely top of the line PC (or custom rig for the demo) will be able to pump out a bit more in both the lighting and particle effects department, that's not a "Huge Difference." It's minor. The difference between PS4 and WiiU is the RAM, which is a crucial part in getting the lighting (like bloom, light scatter etc) and particle effects to run right and run smooth. This is more than likely than main reason why it's not ideal to run on WiiU. But the differences at the moment between PS4 and PC are negligible at best. And as the PS4 devs get better accustomed to the coding environment for PS4 it will keep up with most high-end PC's with, again, negligible differences.

There's a whole lot more: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-unreal-engine-4-ps4-vs-pc


It says it underneath the comparison video that the lighting and effects are the only major difference. 

I'm not talking about the video and if you scrolled through the article you would have noticed the cut backs they had to make.


Then, if you scrolled, you should have noticed that part, right?

Update: Brian Karis, senior graphics programmer at Epic Games adds some more insight in the comments below, explaining some of the more obvious differences - particularly in terms of the very different lighting schemes. At the technical level, the two demos are closer than it seems:

"The biggest changes actually came from the merging of two separate cinematics, the original Elemental and the extended Elemental we showed at PS4's launch event. Each had different sun directions and required some compromises to join them. This resulted in some major lighting differences that aren't platform related but were due to it being a joined cinematic. Another effect, in the original you could see the mountains through the door where in the merged one we made the view through the door white since the mountains outside were no longer the same. Same deal with the mountain fly by. The old mountain range doesn't exist in the new one. These changes from the merge make direct comparisons somewhat inaccurate.

"Feature wise most everything is the same, AA resolution, meshes, textures (PS4 has tons of memory), DOF (I assure you both use the same Bokeh DOF, not sure why that one shot has different focal range), motion blur.

"Biggest differences are SVOGI has been replaced with a more efficient GI solution, a slight scale down in the number of particles for some FX, and tessellation is broken on ps4 in the current build which the lava used for displacement. We will fix the tessellation in the future."