Rumor: Assassin's Creed Origins Running Better On Xbox One X Than PC (wccftech)

[vivster]

CGI-Quality said:

vivster said:
After disasters like Unity this can be expected. Still, I don't like blank statements like these that don't provide any details, especially as headlines. It's simple click bait. This should neither exist as an official article nor as a thread on VGC.

The correct way to phrase is "ACO might be poorly optimized for PC but it also might not since we have no idea on what specs that one PC was running or what issues it had". Anything other than that is a bold assumption with at best a flimsy foundation.

Nothing wrong with the existence of the topic, because it's not out of the realm of possibility (considering the history) and it's tagged as a "Rumor". And he provided a key detail. The game constantly runs below 30fps on PC, with frequent stuttering in both fluidity and gameplay, in his experience. The Xbox One X version, according to him, didn't have such problems.

This is a major cause for alarm this close to launch.

My problem is not the content but the wording.

Saying "X runs better on consoles than on PC" is treating PC as a single hardware platform when it is not. There is no single "PC" so you just cannot say that something definitely runs better or worse on PC. It completely undersells and undermines one of the biggest advantages of the platform, upgradability. Might as well claim that all games run like shit on PS4 while specifically meaning a PS4 that has a defect APU.

The only acceptable way is to specify a certain PC and the circumstances.