Are the PS4 versions of multiplats really better??

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

Landguy said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

Landguy said:

I think you are responding to the other comment about controllers.  I wasn't speaking to something subjective. 

Even though TV and movies would make it seem that people can percieve everything going on in their field of vision, that is simply not true.  In almost every case, the human mind only picks up fragments of what they are looking at and the brain just "assumes" the rest.  That's why I keep discussing what is perceptably different when actually playing a game as compared to what is really happening(the PS4 version is better technically).  Sure, when you disassociate yourself from the gameplay(Digital foundry), your brain then focuses on a whole different set of facts.  Thus the comparison or difference is more obvious.

I mention controller because I'm giving an example of how perceptual difference is irrelevant regardless of its a matter of experience or platform.

If you can discern the difference then it makes little sense to even argue for the version with lower res/fr because they cost the same amount of money.

If you can't buying habits are debatable, but the debate about which version offers more value is a verifiyable fact. Digital Foundry's job is to present objective analysis of a video games performance. Ironically, DF was hardly ever critiziced when they said the PS3 version was worse than the 360 version, but now that the tables have turned so has the criticism.

Hmm...

If you own both consoles and the game will have no perceptable difference to you, your theory is that you should buy the PS4 version just because you will know that it is technically better?  If that is the case, you need to never buy a car. In very few instaces do people buy the technically better car.  The same goes for almost all electronics.  Most people buy them based on brand loyalty. 

I don't think that people are wrong for buying the PS4 version.  I think that they many are buying it because they were told that the PS4 version is "better".  Even though they themselves would never see the difference.  M$ really screwed up launching the system when they were obviously not ready and the developers weren't given the right tools to get the XB1 to perform better.  Of course, M$ undershot the power too.

Brand Loyalty is an issue of that deals with Consoles not with games, there is no different brand of a game that is identical on multiple platforms. The difference is always there. The Sky is blue regardless of if you are blind or not. No sane person would ever pay the same amount for a worse version of something, unless there was something outside the game that affected their decision. The brand of the console is one of those things, It has nothing to do with the Game itself, just the console you are playing it on.

Brand is exactly the same thing as controller, its a matter of preference.

The only reason any rational person would be the Xbox version over the PlayStation version is if on the Xbox they have preferences that override the difference between the two versions.

Preferences are irrelevant to the comparison of two version of a game however, with this being the case the only time the PS4 version is not superior, is when its equal to the Xbox version, this is not up for discussion.