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d21lewis on 14 May 2015
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Ruler said:
foodfather said:
They haven't had any concerns since handing over the cheques to Activision and Ubisoft with the exclusive content. And I'm sure theres more cheques to come.

I think its dismal the PS4 has got to where it is which such 1st party support they have. Sheep/hype culture today is sickening. 10 years ago they wouldn't have gotten away with it. Far superior multiplats didn't matter on the original xbox or 360, so why such a big deal now???


Why it didnt matter back then? I tell you why, because the 360 Multiplats only run on average 5 frames more and maybe had a bit better colors than the ps3.

The original xbox had 480p vs 480i on the ps2 when it came to multiplatform games.Thats not higher resolution but prograssive vs interlanced resolution which is also a huge deal. But in europe for example Microsoft removed the 480p support alltogeher for the OG Xbox. You have to softmod your pal xbox to get progressive scan making it even more irrelavent at the time. And at the time most people played on crt TVs with composite cables anyways thats why it didnt matter.

And thats why it matters now for the ps4 because its higher resolution, not 5 frames more and everyone has a HD 1080p ready TV now.

And when it comes to exclsuives its very relative. The ps4s exclusives have the better graphics, they are all mostly new IPs unlike with MS and Nintendo exclusives, and they are all more diverse devoloped from more different country. For MS most of their exclusives come from US and UK, nintendo its mostly japanese.

 

 

In those days, the difference between PS2 and Xbox were whole levels being redesigned just to run on PS2, character models being changed, etc.

 

With PS3 and 360, there were loading times, frame rate issues, controller preference, online stability, etc.

 

Even before that, SNES/Genesis games were often very different as were PS1 vs N64 games.  You could tell which console a game was on (blocky vs blurry) from just a screenshot.  Nowadays, it takes a lot more effort to find any difference between multiplats.  The difference was much more pronounced in days past.