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SvennoJ on 04 June 2020
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Pemalite said:
DonFerrari said:

I don't know why it is so hard to Pug to get it (and need to pretend I miss the point), BC is certainly a lot of value to some customers and no value to others (and as long as it doesn't add significant cost sure it is a good thing to have) it still doesn't move sales. He tried to use "evidence" from BC on X1 and when shut down he complained that I was using sales because I was butthurt about the BC on X1 and on XSX, even if I have praised it as probably being much better than the one on PS5.

Let's try to debate the topics that are presented in a post rather than take a jab at someone, cheers.

SvennoJ said:

Great games are great games. I double dipped on TloU, would have even if it ran with BC

So let's look at the tentpole enhancements as Naughty Dog has outlined them. Principally, we're looking at 1080p resolution at 60fps in both single and multi-player, a 4x detail increase to texture maps and a 2x resolution boost to shadow maps. Texture streaming is no longer required owing to the PS4's prodigious RAM, and there's longer draw distances, better LOD and improved particle effects. In essence, Naughty Dog has scaled up the original game to full HD and boosted assets to match, while doubling frame-rate.

You think you get all that from BC?



Skip to 7 minutes.

Digital Foundry:
"Improved Textures, Higher Level of Geometry and better shadow map quality as well"

Backwards Compat can do more than people think.

4x detail increase to texture maps

BC magically adds higher res textures? All those changes need extra data and/or coding interventions.

Again, the back-compat team play with render targets and level of detail settings - higher resolution textures and shadow maps are presented in most scenes and even geometry LODs seem to be pushed out and improved for a richer scene.

Human intervention, it's a patch, remaster all but in name. Most games don't have those options and it will still take human tinkering on a per title basis to reach those kind of results. It's not BC, it's a free update basically. Great, and likely the effort was made back in extra sales of DLC and digital copies. But it's not really BC, as in sticking the original disc in without downloading anything from the internet.