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Machiavellian on 08 August 2014
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overman1 said:
Machiavellian said:
overman1 said:
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jnemesh said:

I wholeheartedly agree.  The differences this gen are FAR more pronounced than they were between the 360 and the PS3!  Xbox fans keep trying to minimize the differences, but they ARE there, and they ARE significant, no matter how much they try to downplay it!

Wasn't that the case during the first year for PS3 and 360 games.  Resolution was much worst on the PS3 and framerates were crap.  Now we see developers stating they can reach at least visual parity with the X1.  In other words, look for 1st and 2nd party to really try to squeeze the most from either console.  For 3rd party developers its not a priority and probably never will be.

Eventually 3rd party developers would be able to do more with the PS4 engine than the Xbox one's. It would be up to them to decide whether or not to take advantage of that.

Think about it, even today 3rd party developers do not put in the time or resources to make the PS3 look or even perform better than the 360 version after 10 years. There is nothing that will change for 3rd party developers because their focus is not to make one platform outperform the other but to make all platforms perform as equal as possible.  

Can 3rd party developers push the PS4 harder, probably so but for a money, time and resource standpoint, its better they push the other hardware more to reach the PS4.  The thing is, thats doess adding a few more framerates or pixil really going to sell the PS4 version more than adding parity for the weaker console.  This was the case last gen and it remains today.  Nothing change but the players position.

Not really Developers have spoken on how it is much easier to program for the PS4 countlessly. Couple that with the more powerful GPU and faster ram and you have a winner. Listen I never said all the PS4 versions of games will look better but  I can safelly say there will never be one which will look definitely better on the Xbox one except the developer purposely gimps the PS4 version. There is a very likely chance that if there are to be better versions of multiplats this gen, it will definitely be on the PS4. Also, I will be expecting PS4 exclusives to be some of the best looking games this gen. The way things are....

Easier means that the developer does not have to spend as much resources getting the PS4 to their target compared to the other systems.  I believe this is where you are getting confused.  Everything a developer does is time, material and resources.  All of those play into how much it cost to create a game.  Most developers only have one team and they do both games at the same time.  If one platform reach target faster than the other than those people are moved to the other platforms so they can reach target.

@Bolded:  Do we not have a game already that either looks or plays better on the X1 compared to the PS4.  I will research this one as I thougth I read this on digital foundry.  Either way, yes, what you say probably will happen but the question is will it be at a significant margin that anyone really cares.  In most face-offs, the 360 had such an advantage but in reality, it did not make a difference to PS3 gamers.

Basically the question is will 3rd party developers take the extra time, effort and resources to make the PS4 games better than the X1 and what I am saying is no.  3rd party developers will not take the extra effort.  They will have a target for both platforms and if one get their before the other then resources will be shifted to the other platform.