Digital Foundry vs. AC4 PS3/360/WiiU/PS4/XB1/PC

[Mr Khan]

superchunk said:
Rol you win.

I'm done with nearly all 3rd parties.

AC3 I ignored some of the performance stuff as it was easily attributed to rushed porting to make Wii U launch. But this game has had plenty of time to polish a game that is on more powerful hardware and simply should not have these issues.

I recently bought Rayman Legends and its a great experience all around. These will be the only 3rd party games I go after from here on out. It has to be a game that shows some basic effort on Wii U vs straight unoptimized crap from last-gen engine.

AC4 should be on the same engine as PS4/Xbone to correctly handle the basic architecture but at lower resolution. (ps4 1080, xbone 900, wiiu 600~720) That would be acceptable and would have paved way for better end result. This force fitting of a PS360 engine on completely different architectural types is just lazy cost cutting measures. I mean Ubisoft is already using their better engine on Watch_Dogs according to their own information. No reason to not do so here.

I wasn't going to buy AC4 anyways due to the actual game of AC3 (not any Wii U version issues), but now I'm really going to pay attention to Watch_Dogs final product. It better be on next-gen engine.

Are they using a better engine for Watch Dogs? Who the hell knows anymore.