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curl-6 on 06 October 2014
Mr Puggsly said:

But PS4 ports will continue to exist. A worst case scenario is developers aim for parity.

The Wii U has an even worse scenario, no ports of core games.

No point in comparing it to Wii U situation. But good job brining Wii U into this discussion.


It's completely comparable; this is what Wii U got from day 1, ports that did not use the machine's potential.



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Aerys on 06 October 2014

Parity is so stupid, we cant suppor tthat indeed, if we say yes once, they'll do it more and more.

Good think i didnt really want to buy it so much, now, i know i'll buy Evil Within instead



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thismeintiel on 06 October 2014
GribbleGrunger said:

It looks like Sony are doing something about it. An insider who works for Sony posted this on Gaf:

"Interesting thread."


To which someone replied: 'interesting post'.

This was then followed by someone saying: 'it means nothing'

Which was in turn answered by the insider with: 'Actually it does.'

Clearly he can't say much but the picture is of a dog pricking his ears up and watching intently.

edit: Yep, Sony are listening, he just answered the same guess with a =)

I would LOVE if Sony said, "You either release a Day 1 patch for the game to up the res to 1080p (maybe the framrate, as well), something we know the PS4 can easily pull off, or say goodbye to that 11M+ userbase that are making plenty of games million sellers."  The fact is, Ubisoft would have no choice but to say okay.



 

Aura7541 on 06 October 2014
GribbleGrunger said:

It looks like Sony are doing something about it. An insider who works for Sony posted this on Gaf:

"Interesting thread."


To which someone replied: 'interesting post'.

This was then followed by someone saying: 'it means nothing'

Which was in turn answered by the insider with: 'Actually it does.'

Clearly he can't say much but the picture is of a dog pricking his ears up and watching intently.

edit: Yep, Sony are listening, he just answered the same guess with a =)

I'm curious to see how this turns out.



GribbleGrunger on 06 October 2014
thismeintiel said:

I would LOVE if Sony said, "You either release a Day 1 patch for the game to up the res to 1080p (maybe the framrate, as well), something we know the PS4 can easily pull off, or say goodbye to that 11M+ userbase that are making plenty of games million sellers."  The fact is, Ubisoft would have no choice but to say okay.

I think he was just letting Gaffers know in as quiet way as he could that Sony aren't going to just let this happen. Whether that means sending in the ICE team or a few sharp words on the phone is the question. You have to remember that Ubisoft said they were targeting 1080p/60ps only 3 months ago. Are you telling me they never knew what their engine was capable of or they didn't know what the PS4 was capable of?



 

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Mr Puggsly on 06 October 2014
thismeintiel said:

I would LOVE if Sony said, "You either release a Day 1 patch for the game to up the res to 1080p (maybe the framrate, as well), something we know the PS4 can easily pull off, or say goodbye to that 11M+ userbase that are making plenty of games million sellers."  The fact is, Ubisoft would have no choice but to say okay.


LOL!

Sony is not in a position to throw away money and force AC fans to get an Xbox.

The fact is the average consumer won't even notice or care. Some people on this forum just don't consider the average consumer. Not every gamer is a forum dweller searching for the native resolution of their games.



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thismeintiel on 06 October 2014
FatedReality said:
thismeintiel said:

bevochan said:

The twitter blow up is stupid.  Any press, regardless if it's negative, is good press for ubisoft.  Ubisoft doesn't care about the twitter movement, and people doing the twitter hashtag movement are stupid.  The only way Ubisoft will care is if people actually don't buy the game.  Not sure if the twitter movement will do that.  Ubisoft will ONLY listen to the consumer's wallet.

Start a new hashtag #boycottACUnity

If anything can be taken from this gen, it should be that that statement is complete BS.  Bad press is bad press.  And sometimes you cannot recover from it.  Just look at the situation the XBO is in.  If anything, the Twitter blow up will inform more people, which may lead to them not purchasing the game.  Same thing happened with DRM and mandatory Kinect.

The Unity parity situation is no where near as big as MS DRM and Kinect. They are also two completly different scenarios. The failure of DRM and Kinect was  becuase it was anticonsumer and was too confusing for the consumer.

I see this Unity debacle a lot like how people say they're going to boycott every COD game becuase of a lack of dedicated servers. Few gamers refuse to buy the game while the casuals (The majority) buy the game in masses. AC while see no huge loss in sales due to this resulotion parity.

Did I say it was on the same level?  No.  What I said is bad news is in fact bad news.  And if a company doesn't do its best to get rid of it ASAP, it can stay with them for months/years. 

And this is pretty anti-consumer (if you bought a PS4), since its pretty obvious that the PS4 has enough power to run this game at 1080p if the XBO can pull it off at 900p.  Either that or the game better be MUCH better looking on the PS4 if they are going for the same res and FPS.  Of course, we both know they will be around the same graphic quality.  This is a dev purposely gimping a game to reach parity.  That's a horrible practise to support, one that seems to be new to console gaming this gen.



 

GribbleGrunger on 06 October 2014
Mr Puggsly said:


LOL!

Sony is not in a position to throw away money and force AC fans to get an Xbox.

The fact is the average consumer won't even notice or care. Some people on this forum just don't consider the average consumer. Not every gamer is a forum dweller searching for the native resolution of their games.

I agree that Sony wouldn't try to pull that, but forum users have friends that don't use forums and Twitter is read by people who don't use forums.



 

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SlayerRondo on 06 October 2014

While the game will only be about 2% worse than before I will boycott on principal.



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Mr Puggsly on 06 October 2014
curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

But PS4 ports will continue to exist. A worst case scenario is developers aim for parity.

The Wii U has an even worse scenario, no ports of core games.

No point in comparing it to Wii U situation. But good job brining Wii U into this discussion.


It's completely comparable; this is what Wii U got from day 1, ports that did not use the machine's potential.

Developers are still learning the Wii U hardware. Platinum has failed to achieve a solid 60 fps on the Wii U. Platinum struggled on PS3 early on as well.

The more we talk the more your comparison makes less sense.

Ubisoft apparently chose parity for AC:U (Hence, it was a simple option). Using the potential power of Wii U is still a struggle. Hey, developers are learning how to better optimize for X1 as well.



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