I think Digital Foundry forgets that the GPU itself has internal multiple levels of texture cache made especially for not having to read textures from main memory over and over again while doing AF. You read once from SDRAM / GDDR5 then texturing is done from this memory (faster than eSRAM!)

https://www.amd.com/Documen...

Ehhh, so what? As long as the exclusives are fun, it doesnt matter what limitations there are.. Im very picky with my multiplats and mostly buy exclusives anyway so it doesnt bother me..

So no one can brag about the PS4's higher resolution when XBO has better anisotropic filtering!

B-but the CELL...i mean 8gb GDDR5?!!?!

Games, look fine to my eyes on both platforms, but interesting read...

wow, i always thought ps4 multi-plats had blurrier textures compared to xo, though the pixel count increase sure did make it look more polished.

this clearly means that higher resolution doesn't always mean it's the better version. pc gamers will tell you that.

Got to say ps4 messed up with this one, having a weaker cpu really is bottlenecking the more powerful gpu.

Focusing only Graphics is just plain stupiditty. Sure i get the picture that great visuals really show off how detailed a game can truly look in game. I am more than aware Innovation doesn't completely drive the videogames industry. I totally get that however i'd rather have games with great fantastic gameplay such as Xenoblade Chronicles, and Xenogears just to name a few. Both games kick major A**, and as it is Graphics will eventually reach a point where they look to realistic and they can't make the games any further detailed.

That's why i never based a game entirely only for its graphics, i base a game considerably so off of gameplay. The issue today is so many younger gamers truly care too darn much about graphics it's like "Forget the Gameplay" the core aspect of how all videogames are playable, DUH!

Plus look at games with not so good graphics such as Tales of Xillia & Xillia 2 those games graphics don't hold a candle to FFXIII & its unnecessary sequels. However while the FFXIII trilogy looks pretty in game the cast overall is horrendously lackluster.

So at the end of the day graphics aren't everything. But hey don't take my word for it, like it the way you want.

Ouch, i would have figured 16x af would be mandatory across all console games by now.

Iv stated in many articles only to get pasted as a troll and filled with disagrees. Both CPU and GPU need to be on par with each other to achieve the most out of the systems hardware. Most PC gamers will tell you this. You cant just whoop in a monster GPU with an inferior and very old CPU, it just doesn't work that way. PS4 has got the more powerful GPU in the console market but its CPU is behind that of the X1 which makes the X1 have its benefits over the PS4 just like the PS4 has benefits over the X1. A superior system needs to have both superior CPU and GPU not just GPU. The Witcher 3 runs smoother on the X1 and sharper on the PS4, you would think the PS4 being 50% more powerful (as fanboys like to claim) would run the game 50% better not better in some ways and worse in others. Reason I choose the Witcher 3 as a perfect example because the Devs heavily optimised both versions.

Also PC gamers have DDR3 ram for its CPUs (Which is better then GDDR5) and GDDR5 for its GPUs (Better then DDR3)

Even Sony's 1st Party Studios claim it a bottleneck
http://www.dualshockers.com...

I don't know how blurriness is a problem. I set my tv to sharpness all the way to max and never see anything blurry on my PS4.

Sure is a lot of caring about graphics for a generation that claims not to care about graphics, when its convenient for them anyway.

I've never seen this as a demanding setting, I set it to 16 times on every game I play and don't even see a performance drop.

So its better Resolution or better framerate and Texture filtering.

I knew this from the start, nothing new here. About time someone posted some facts about this. PS4 is not superior, it offers sharper resolution at a cost.

If you want real power and the best of both worlds buy your games on PC, that way you get the sharpest resolution and framerate and effects. Never buy into company marketing.

maybe this explains once and for all that consoles are just for exclusives and that's all.

im satisfid with visuals overall.dont waste time starring at textures wen it runs 60fps

go figure pc looks the best, sometimes xbox one has an advantage of filtering while ps4 has a resolution advantage. Either way, just play games enjoy them for what they are, as long as the game isn't broken.

So the article is about texture filtering and so forth...

Yet as per usual, this discussion devolves into "My Console/PC is better than yours..." nonsense. Boils down to nothing more than a bunch of adolescents either fighting over, or massively defending their preferred plastic box of circuitry.

Armchair developers apparently know everything ...how very predictable /

Why is AF an issue on the console? This effect is virtually free on the PC to the point where nobody considers it to be a factor in the benchmarks anymore. Are the consoles so pressed for performance that resources must be nickeled and dimed at every turn?

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Wuchang is great. Nine Sols didn’t have a physical copy so I never played it but I’ve heard good things so I will check it out. I stopped playing sports games many years ago when before the card dlc’s or whatever they’re called.

Last comment… ):

Great month for others, but not me. Hate soccer and soulslikes. Maybe Nine Sols is good.

🫡 it was fun while it lasted, N4G.

FC26!