| Azzanation said: I wouldnt say consoles have done better, There is no other game like Fallout 4 on consoles that have proven this. Sure games can look good but Fallout 4 is another genre that struggles to run at a next gen standard. Its not the Devs fault the game cant hit 60 frames or have alot more detail and effects, as we have seen with the PC version. Hardware is a limitation. Remember theres more to a game than the visuals that eat up processing power, like AI, number of enermies, FOV, Vsync, AA, AF and many other things. As we have seen with many ports that are heavily optimised that the differences between the 2 consoles is a bare minimum. Look at the heavily optimised games like The Witcher 3 for example or Destiny. When companies start using the strenghts of both consoles and not just the strenght of one and not the other, you wont notice much difference. As for Fallout 4, sure it doesnt look as good as Ryse or Killzone but Fallout is doing things those games dont do instead. The perfect example is Driveclub vs Forza Horizon 2, sure one game looks better because its more linear and track focused while the other focuses on other things like open world etc. That processing power doesnt change between games, its all the same for every game, its just where they decide to use it. Halo 5 focused on frame rate, if they wanted to, they could have made it look like a tech demo if they chose 30 frames instead. |
We'll have to agree to disagree on that front, because personally i think Fallout 4 is a technical disappointment (yes, with all factors considered). Not to the point that i'd complain about its general tech, but enough so that i don't think the coupled performance issues are acceptable. Especially not when a low budget PC can do the job.
TW3 and Destiny are rather contradictory examples of games that are 'heavily optimized' for both. One is functionally identical on both (and fairly technically conservative in general), which simply can't happen if a game is making good use of 'the strengths of both consoles'. The other (as of its most recent patch) shows a pretty clear overall advantage for the PS4. How much value someone puts on that advantage is entirely subjective, but ultimately it is there. All we can do is point out its frequent existence, and let people decide for themselves how relevant it is.
