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

[Cheebee]

the-pi-guy said:

Cheebee said:
Um, what? I don't for a second believe anyone on the face of this earth is able to discern the difference between 60 and 59 fps, with the naked eye.

It's closer to a 30 fps drop.  Because the 63rd frame will be up twice, this will be like a slowdown from 60 fps to 30 fps for that pretty much 1 frame though.  

But it isn't exactly the difference between 59 and 60 fps.  

I understand what you're saying, yes. However as this lasts for 1/60th of a second or so, I don't think this actually matters. 

 

Consider that not a single person/reviewer has ever noticed nor mentioned this about the game before, anywhere, ever. Every review /hands-on claimed it was 60 fps.

Thus, I don't believe anyone will notice, and DF has been using technological means to discover this. How else did they find out that this blip happens exactly on the 63rd frame? Surely not with their naked eyes.