This leads us to a second issue that affects both console releases: gamma levels. We went into the review event having never hooked up our equipment to either next-gen platform before, and our tests with BF4 gave some curious results we want to revisit with the final game on retail hardware. Similar to the Xbox 360, Microsoft's new platform seems to enforce a colour push towards the lower end, leaving us with more saturated colours and deeper blacks. It's just cause to head towards Battlefield 4's brightness settings, but in the interest of a fair test we kept this at the default 30 per cent for all platforms.
Curiously, the top end is also affected, causing the image to appear distinctly washed out, as if set to limited range. This is particularly evident on PS4, which is kept free of a comparable black push to Microsoft's platform to compensate.
Oh come on, I still have to adjust brightness and contrast switching between the 2 consoles. I hate that hardware level gamma adjustment, it was not possible to calibrate a 360 with black at exactly 16 and white at 235 thanks to the gamma curve.
I hope it's because of the capture
Right now there's every possibility that it could be a capture situation, but it is worth noting that we saw no such issue on our PC captures and after returning to base, the same equipment produced a perfectly balanced picture on our PlayStation 3.
So basically in that you tube comparison the ps4 is set a bit too bright while the xb1 is still a bit too dark when they both use the same in game brightness level.
