Yesterday Ubisoft announced the release date of the much anticipated open world hacking game Watch Dogs. Finally, after a long delay the game will be released across current and next-gen consoles on May 27th. But something was missing.

According to several users, the game didn’t look as sharp as when it was first shown at E3 2012. This resulted in backlash from the community and to make matters worse, the PS4 and Xbox One are rumored to have different resolutions, with the former reportedly running at 1080p compared to the latter which runs at 960p.

Industry insider Ahsan Rasheed, who goes by the name “thuway” on NeoGAF, says that everything is far from rosy at Ubisoft. “Heard folks internally at Ubisoft are absolutely frightened because backlash against Watch Dogs was much stronger than anyone anticipated.”

Rasheed also didn’t believe that console gamers were setting their expectations too high. “Have you seen the Order? Ryse? Shadow Fall? Looks next gen to me. Oh and did I forget, Second Son?”

He continued by tweeting that, “My expectations are in line, the game was built around a foundation that just isn’t what I personally expect from a next gen game.”

What are your thoughts? Does Watch Dogs feel like a significant step down from what was initially promised? Or is this all irrelevant when it comes to the gameplay? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Watch Dogs will be releasing for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, with the Wii U version out later.

http://gamingbolt.com/ubisoft-are-absolutely-frightened-due-to-backlash-against-watch-dogs-insider

It's not a next gen game, it's cross gen. Personally, I don't give a rat's hindquarters as long as the game-play is fun. It looks completely fine.

Maybe they'll learn not to make bullshot gameplays just to serve a half assed game later. Lol who am I kidding, it's Ubisoft. Can't wait to see The Division at this years E3.

I'm waiting on an AI showcase, if it's downgraded like the graphics, there is no way I'm buying it.

exactly this...I don't get my fun out of games by counting pixels, I get it out of actually playing the game @.@ This is just ridiculous...

"Gamers" on gaming forums can really be little bitches, not even kids complain this much.

Every developpers are fear the launch of a new IP as they don't know how it will be received. In my case I think that it was a mistake to  release it on the old platform along the new ones. They should have done it only for the new gen or, like GTA5, only for the old platform. That way it would be already on the market and the risk would have been smaller (less team working on the same game and more on new ideas for future games or other IPs). Now with the massive investment they've done and no garantee of success due to deflating hype, they might have killed the IP before it is even released...

OH BULLSHIT!!!

Do you think the corporates at Ubisoft are checking out N4G and Neogaf to see what the fans are saying!?

BAHAHAHAHA!

Watch_Dogs will do fine and they know it. It might even do exceptionally well.

Looks good to me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAbH8Z8iwk

cant believe the screwed this one after the massive hype that sorrounded this game. i think today, nobody knows about this game, they better invest on a strong marketing campaing because at this point WD looks more like its going to bomb hard

The Order will be one of the most linear games and Ryse is also not very open world so that I wouldn't compare them with Watch Dogs. We should also not forget that you can't compare it that easx with games exclusive to the new gen and even exclusive to one single platform which also helps these games but yeah, the PS4 video from yesterday did really look much worse as what they have shown us in the past

A post based on a article based on tweets from a banned NeoGafer... yeh, totaly significant.