Same answer for you.  Look at the location maps in the lower corner of each.  THey are in SIMILAR locations.  But, the PS4 version has you 30-40feet or whatever closer to the trees.  In the XB1 version, you can see that the dense foliage starts 30-40 feet directly ahead in the picture.  I doubt that they would have random foliage genereators, but I guess I am not the designers.

So.... they're in close proximity to each other and the PS4 version has more vegtation (especially the grass) if these pics are a clear representation of both versions. Gotcha.

Yeah, right.  That's what you said.

I am not saying that the PS4 doesn't have moree foliage in some areas, but you can make the difference look much more by shanging the location on a few feet.  Follow the links back to the original articles these came from and you can see that these are mostly deceptive.

There will still be a lot of overlap if you only change the location a few feet. So.... it's not deceptive at all especially when you look at the position of the trees.

What? When di I say the XB1 was unplayable? It's just the worse version visually.

While both have good framerate the drops happened more in Xbone version and it have judder.

Care to explain how, despite being "30 to 40 feet" forwards, the trees and mountains in the PS4 pic are scaled almost identically to the X1? Surely if the character was standing all the way by that foliage in the distance, the trees would be peaking quite a significant amount higher over the mountain in the PS4 pic? That is unless the basics of perspective have drastically changed while i was eating dinner.

In-fact if we sync the two images up, it appears to be the X1 picture that's very slightly forwards (though by a very small distance).

Again, i'm not saying these comparisons are legit, but your argument is really quite silly. It's true things can be made to look worse than they are when using drastically different angles, but that doesn't seem to be the case in these pictures (nor does your theory explain the differences in the top gif in the OP).

Also, I'd suggest waiting for DF to confirm this.

I find it odd other areas look virtually the same but they had to cut back on grass.

Agreed, i'm still not convinced this comparison is legit. That said, lowering the amount or quality of foliage/grass is a common method of freeing up resources. You'd be surprised how demanding grass can be :p Especially if the lighting engine reacts to said grass.

I'm half inclined to believe that the X1 screen is from the 360, but that wouldn't explain why the trees and distant render LOD are almost identical on both. Another possibility is they're both the PC version at different settings.

Suppose we will have to wait for DF before we know more.

True, but it seems they only use a significant amount of foilage in rural areas with little activity.

The draw distance and lighting on foilage in Forza Horizon 2 is very imrpressive, that's is also a 1080p game. So that's partially why I'm reluctant to believe these pics.