Naughty Dog Programmer and Coder, Corrinne Yu has officially confirmed that The Last of Us: Remastered when locked at 30 FPS enables higher quality shadow. 

and to quote from what i just read

"More on shadows and GPU ms in general,not just TLOU.Extra shadow improvements arrive from fetching and blurring more samples which takes ms"

Seems more like a situation of 30fps allowing time for samples for the shadow rendering pipeline to pull more accurate results, not really "system doesnt have the power to do it at 60fps" and more "system doesnt have the time to do so many samples at 60fps but since we have 30fps option we may as well let it.

Porting a ps3 title has zilch to do with what natively optimized exclusives will be capable of.

If think you are mixing your info.... gameplay parity is something that is the common thing in multiplats... anyway regarding the PS3 being the worst version and X360 being closer to X1/PS4 (and both being pretty close) don't tell you basically that they had more familiarity with X360 than PS3 but didn't cared enough to push PS4? Or after 7 years in the 7th gen you think the gap between X360 to PS3 is greater than PS4 to X1 (even if we would consider X360>PS3 which we now isn't the case if we look for 1st parties).

Regarding the ID@Xbox I haven't said anything about it... and ND enhancing the shadows on 1080p30fps do you think having double the time to process the image would just give then enough for shadow? Possibly with their first attemp in gen 8 the game up to now is looking better than any other game in this gen so far, so your point is silly, or you haven't read about the other improvements?

Its all speculations. And, of course, only PS4 fans tend to use the parity thing.

Of course, now its bungies fault because they dont want to piss off the ms-players. weird logic but understandable because ps4 HAS TO BE better. ;)

Why cant players of both brands be happy bout another great mulitplayer game?

Is there a reason people keep bringing up cross-gen games to compare the performance gap? You do realize it's just going to get harder for Xbox fans trying to prove that the PS4 being ~1.4x as powerful as the One isn't going to make a difference, as soon as more exclusives start coming out? So why struggle to prove there is no difference? The word is already out and nothing will change the (true) perception that the One is weaker.

I don't know why people are surprise. Third party developers want to make as much profit as possible so they make their games with the weaker console in mind so that way they don't have to spend a whole lot of time optimizing it. Plus, they don't want a bad relationship with the console manufacture / fan base.

The first part of what your saying makes some sense. The second doesn't. The game was originally going to release 900p, some resources were freed up and now its 1080p. Bungie was ready and willing to release an inferior version. Plus a couple pixels is nothing compared to how hard bungie is screwing over xbox owners with their destiny exclusivity deals so they seem perfectly fine with burning down bridges from what I can tell. 

Fact is bungie is working on 4 different consoles. It is ridiculous to expect them to be able to max out any of these consoles the same way a first party would. It doesn't mean they are deliberately downgrading any version, it just means they have to deal with the reality of limited time and resources.

I will buy the version that is not a generic mindless First Person Shooter.

Been gone for a while and apparently this is still a thing.

Seeing some crazy double standard post here. PS4 favored "praise the mighty ps4"
PS4 parity "developers didn't really try"

good stuff........this will never end, jumping back out of this.