@ internationterrorist

I'm not an Xbox fanboy. I don't even own an Xbox One. I'm first a PC gamer and second a PS4 gamer. I am only expressing my point of view of what I believe to be the truth. You guys always jump to such conclusions whenever someone disagrees with your cult-like ignorant opinions.

So now you are going to claim Alien Isolation was purposely held back on PS4? You guys get more and more absurd each day.

The PS4 version is superior to the Xbox One version. Are you really telling me that the developers purposely made both the Xbox One version and PS4 version of their game run and look worse than it could have? If you honestly believe that, you don't have the slightest clue about game development. No developer would do that.

Game developers take pride in their work and they want their games to be the best they can realistically be (given budget and time constraints). Nobody would purposely gimp their game, especially since it would likely result in lost sales on both platforms.

If the PS4 were truly capable of running this game at 60fps it would mean that the Xbox One version could easily run at an average of 45fps if not higher, which would have meant they could have achieved a locked 30fps on the XB1 without any problem. Since we know that the XB1 version is running below 30fps much of the time, with screen tearing to boot, the only explanation in your scenario is that they gimped the PS4 version AND XB1 version.

But this doesn't make sense. Why would they make both versions of their game crappier than they could have been? Why would they purposely cripple both of their console versions? They would have a whole lot to lose and virtually nothing to gain.

To go from 30fps to 60fps requires literally double the performance from the hardware, but the PS4 is NOT twice as powerful as the XB1. It's somewhere between 0% and 50% more powerful than the XB1 depending on where the demand on the hardware is and what the bottlenecks are. So if the Xbox One version is struggling to maintain 30fps, even in the best case scenario of the PS4 having a 50% hardware advantage, that would still only allow the PS4 version to hit around a 40 to 45 fps average framerate, assuming the PS4 version didn't have other graphical advantages, which is does.

Again, this makes no sense. The PS4 version IS superior to the Xbox One version so it's not like gimping the PS4 version would be any favor to the Xbox One. The Xbox One version has several negatives and is inferior to the PS4 version anyway.

The PS4 version mostly runs at 30fps, except in more demanding areas, and the main issue with its framerate are very large frame latency spikes. This means that certain frames require an inordinately long amount of time to be delivered, thus resulting in a pause or hitch in the game's framerate.

To think that they purposely built this issue into the PS4 version is an absurd proposition. It's clearly an issue with a stall somewhere in the pipeline. Some weak link in the hardware is not able to keep up with a consistent frame delivery.

Some of you need to realize that both consoles have fairly weak CPUs and neither have the most ideal memory architecture. Having to use the ESRAM on XB1 or the graphics oriented GDDR5 on PS4 is not ideal for all scenarios. It's understandable that some games, depending on their design, are going to be limited by these CPUs and memory architectures.

We've seen such stuttering not only in Alien Isolation, but also in games like Thief, which again was noticeably superior on the PS4.

It's ridiculous to say that the developers purposely did it for parity, because the games are not on par in the first place. No, what's really going on is that these consoles have limits and bottlenecks that some game engines work better with than others.

I do agree that developers of all games should do whatever it takes, even if it means paring back the visuals from what they had originally planned, in order to at least maintain a solid 30fps, without significant frame drops or screen tearing, on both consoles. Then allow each console to achieve whatever they can from there in terms of other graphical elements and resolution.