Resident Evil 7 PS4 vs Xbox One - Sony's console runs game far better

[SvennoJ]

d21lewis said:

Radek said:

Sigh. Both consoles cost 300$

Xbox Version renders 1 million pixels (960x1080)

PS4 version renders 2 million pixels (1920x1080)

PS4 version has 5-15 fps adventage in heavy scenes.

But it's "not by much" 

Whatever you say I guess.

Xbox version is so bad, that it's much worse than Specs difference would suggest.

It should run at 900p (1.4 million pixels) at the same locked 60 fps but it runs both much lower resolution and lower frame-rate. (multiple sources confirmed 960x1080, Digital Foundry made a mistake)

It's a bad port.

I'm no tech guy but that's it? That's how we define power? Pixels?

 

Polygons don't matter. Effects don't matter. Audio doesn't matter. If that's the case, cool. I can't argue. I don't have a leg to stand on. But you'd think there was more to it than that. RE7 is a blurry, grainy game by design. 

You could also argue that the XBox runs it better as with horror games, less is more! Power of suggestion and not showing the danger in full detail help the illusion. In VR I was freaking out from a glitchy shadow cast by flies buzzing around a lamp in the next room. The more you show, in more detail, the less scary it gets. Sound is the most important in horror games, yet almost never mentioned in reviews. Ofcourse frame rate drops are bad no matter what.

Case in point, one of the scarier moments in Outlast relying on the infrared cam, is there something moving out there...


Going to 4K for horror games is missing the point.