| Azzanation said: My biggest gripe is the fact Fallout 4 runs better on a budget PC. Optimising is very important and all companies should be doing that all the time, and if all companies do that we would barely tell the differences between the PS4 and XB1. However that doesnt change the fact that a budget PC runs FO4 better then the PS4/XB1 when i remember them saying these consoles were considered super computers in Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipDWbd6HNg And many articles claiming this below http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/10/26/the-ps4-is-a-supercomputer-according-to-japanese-regulations-xbox-one-is-just-under-the-threshold/ |
But why does that matter? If both consoles have shown several times in the past that they're capable of much more, then you should be directing your complaint at Bethesda, not the consoles themselves. The PC version running fine doesn't change that. When a game runs fine on consoles but very poorly on a comparable (and sometimes better) PC we don't blame the hardware, we blame the developer for releasing a sub-standard product. I don't see why we should act differently when the roles are reversed.
As for the Japan thing, that's the result on an outdated regulation rather than them thinking the PS4 is some kind of technical marvel. According to the article you linked it was last updated to 1.5tflops back in 2005. That would indeed have been a pretty damn powerful PC at the time.
On a side note, i disagree that developers properly optimizing their games would make the differences between the PS4 and X1 'barley noticeable' (outside of subjective evaluations). If anything i expect it would make the differences more apparent in some cases.
