PS4 Pro: Ratchet And Clank Analysis (Digital Foundry)

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GribbleGrunger said:

d21lewis said:
What I don't like about Digital Foundry:

I guess they have to justify their existence but they say things like "We don't see any artifacts", "I don't see any dips in frame rate", "It looks beautiful. I think it's in 4k"

But then they have to break out their hardware to look at it see it's lost 2 frames here. May be slightly short when it comes to resolution. If we players can't see any shortcomings with our naked eye, isn't that good enough? I know at the end, they said it doesn't matter but that's not going to stop them from finding flaws when there really isn't anything to complain about.

Yeah, that stuck out to me too. 'It looks perfectly fine to my human senses' but 'let's wait to see if the machine thinks it's not'.

What the flying fuck has gaming come to? This hobby used to be fun.

Its what happened when console makers insisted that power makes the machine and not the games. Sony was guilty of this too. During the launch of the X1 and PS4 all we'd hear about is how crappy the Xbox One was because it didn't have GDDR5 and that PS4 is the most powerful console in the history of the world. I still remember the pulled Sony ad where they declared Watchdogs 1080p and 60 fps.

Plus that technical sounding terms make average folk feel smart so they tend to go with the higher numbers.