Digital Foundry complains about Mario Kart 8 dropping to 59 FPS.

[Damagon]

curl-6 said:

vivster said:

curl-6 said:

*Facepalm*

Anyone who says they can tell a one frame difference at 59-60fps is a Jedi or a liar.

Not to mention most "60fps" games have drops into the 30-50fps range. (Ps3/360 COD)

Inconsistent framerate can be a lot worse than low framerate. Have you ever played Far Cry 3? I played it on PC at 60fps(seemingly locked) and it was choppy as hell. Any other game was smooth. There are a lot of misconceptions about frame rate.

The bottom line is never trust a number because it is always averaged and rarely locked. That's why most people prefer locked over inconsistant higher rates.

Also isn't it a bigger news that the game is NOT 1080p? Was everyone aware of that?

But 1 single frame out of 60? I find it very hard to believe that's naked-eye perceptible. Hell, Eurogamer themselves made no mention of it until after they ran it through a framerate counter. Their review never complains about it.

And it was pretty much known to be 720p for a while now, from screens and video. Eurogamer themselves were the ones who created confusion by incorrectly saying it was 1080p, and most of us weren't misled.

Yes and no. The difference between steady 59fps an 60fps is indeed hardly perceciptible, if not impossible. But having them switch intermintently makes it easier to spot. Specially when it's not random but in a pattern. 

It's the switch that gets noticed, not the number of frames themselves. (Something a lot of people in this thread seem to completely not understand btw).  

The silver lining in all of this (and pointed out by DF too) is that because of the nature of this switch in frames, it's likely to be just a bug.