A lot of talk has been done in the past few days about the frame rate and resolution of Watch_Dogs on PS4, especially due to this little mishap, but a new preview by the German siteGolem could shed some light on the issue.

The preview mentions that Ubisoft told (probably during the preview event) that the game runs at 1080p and 60 frames per second, and the writer mentions that he (subjectively) noticed barely any frame rate drops while he played the game.

That said, this comes at a cost, as the build examined seems to have very weak ambient occlusion and visible aliasing. The weak ambient occlusion is especially noticeable at night, during which many objects seem to “float in the air” and several don’t cast shadows. According the preview, textures are also slightly blurry and lack Anistropic Filtering, which is something we already saw in other multiplatform games.

The writer also mentions that this should be less of a problem on PC, that uses HBAO+ for Ambient Occlusion and and MSAA/TXAA (the latter only for Nvidia video cards) for anti-aliasing. 

Of course the mystery on why Sony removed the mention of 1080p and 60 FPS from the PlayStation website remains, but that could be explained in various ways: the most likely reason is that the frame rate isn’t fully locked at 60 frames per second, so the house of PlayStation decided to play it safe instead of being blamed later for advertising a firm number that isn’t always solid.

Of course that’s just my personal speculation, so take it for what it’s worth.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/13/report-watch_dogs-on-ps4-runs-at-1080p-mostly-60-fps-with-almost-no-framerate-drops/

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If you always wanted to be at E3, but you’re not part of the media or the industry, Sony is offering a chance to grab a pass (actually two) for all the three days of the event via the Sony Rewards site.

The opportunity is actually a points+cash auction, meaning that you can bid with Sony Rewards points, but if you don’t have enough you can purchase more.

You can find the auction here. At the moment there are only 33 hours left, and it’s unknown if the passes include access to the PlayStation press conference (probably they don’t). If you win, you’ll also have to pay for your travel and accomodation, so keep that in mind, especially considering that the show is just three weeks away, and finding a reasonably priced hotel near the convention center may be slightly difficult.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/13/sony-puts-e3-passes-up-for-auction-via-sony-rewards/

The video editing suite SHAREFactory launched with the 1.7 firmware update of the PS4 came not without issues, and Senior Producer Stuart Platt shared today that the team is hard at work on an upcoming update:

I am happy to let all #SHAREfactory players know that we are hard at work on our first update. Details coming soon.

Platt also mentioned that the focus of the update will be on addressing currently known issues. Two examples are the recording issues for commentary, that in many cases make voices sound extremely metallic, and sync issues between video and audio during rendering.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/13/ps4s-sharefactory-first-update-coming-with-focus-on-solving-bugs-and-issues/