Those compliance tests were more or less a way for Nintendo to control the content of the games, not necessarily to control quality of games.
Trust me, there were a whole hell of a lot of bad games on the NES and SNES with the Nintendo Seal of Quality.
Watch some Angry Video Game Nerd videos if you don't believe me.
What exactly is an AMD PC? Does that mean you have an AMD CPU and GPU?
Anyways, that is part of your problem. You have an inferior CPU and GPU compared to an Intel and Nvidia combo. Look at any hardware comparisons, AMD has been trailing in both areas for quite a while now. Some of that may be attributes to Intel and Nvidias horrible actions, but it's still true nonetheless.
@Allsystemgamer
Depends on the rest of his system, and what variant of GTX 770 he has. I get a stable 30FPS on medium high settings but that's with the 2GB version of the GTX 770.
@AndrewLB
I have the same PC setup except I have a GTX 770 instead. Unfortunately I can only get stable in-game framerates on medium settings. Cinematics still drop to 15-20ish though, otherwise it's highly playable and I don't even meet the minimum specs with my card.
@dcj0524
Depends on the game. Mario Kart hasn't really changed at all. F-Zero was the same game for 15 years. Portable versions of their games are pretty much exactly the same that they were 20 years ago.
Technically my PC with a Core i5-4670K and 2GB GTX 770 doesn't meet minimum specs either. However I can play the game at a stable 20-30FPS on high settings. Not ideal but lowering it to medium settings gets an almost perfectly stable 30FPS. Those cinematic cut-scenes though, just terrible. Drops down to 13FPS often during those. Patch 1.02 should help fix that a bit though at least.
@DarthZoolu
That is stupid. That's how you get yourself shot. Especially if you show up on the guys property...
@fr0sty
So XBLSkull was right... both platforms can do 1080p 60FPS and both platforms sometimes cannot do 1080p 60FPS...
I tried to tell you that all you had to do was a quick search, even on N4G, to find the truth. You refused. So here is my proof.
First. An 8800GTX beating a PS3. You may say "Well of course, that's a 2008 GPU against a 2006 PS3, that's not really fair." Well that 2008 GPU has roughly 50% better performance than the PS3 GPU. So optimization should have limited the GPU difference to nil right? Nope. BTW, I owned that card until 2011 and it was always better th...
I apologize Ristul. I didn't mean to seem like I was calling you out personally. I was just making a blanket statement in regards to the DS4s battery and consumers. Your comment happened to be the one I replied to while doing it.
No offense or anything similar was intended.
Not everyone is a giant like you. lol.
Perhaps, but how many people are willing to do that? Out of the millions of PS4 consoles sold, I guarantee you 1% or less will mod their controller batteries. It's ridiculous that you even have to do that in the first place. They should have known that 6-8 hours before charges is not good enough. That's like the battery life of a tablet...
Still. I'm not knocking the controller and saying it's terrible. Definitely an engineering flaw but not a game stopper.
@IGiveHugs2NakedWomen
"The only flaw the DS4 has is battery life, however the DS4's internal battery is better than having to spend money on batteries or a "charge & play kit" like you'd have to do with Xbox One controllers."
You must not have heard about rechargeable batteries. That's the third option that costs very little and still gets the Xbox One controller great battery life. I use them in all of electronics to save ...
@Lukas
I own an Xbox One. I clicked your link, and read the results. Seems like a legitimate problem. So I voted on the Xbox Feedback site to get it fixed.
Heres the link if anyone else wants to vote for it too.
https://xbox.uservoice.com/...
No, it's not. Doubling the number of GPU cores does not represent a 50% increase in raw power. It is effected by the law of diminishing returns. Compare a single GPU and the dual GPU equivalent and you can see the performance does not scale 1:1. That fact that you think it does, shows me you have no idea what you are talking about. You can post whatever you want but you clearly don't understand the source material.
Once again, no they havent. Consoles can be coded to ...
Yeah, the video is terrible. You can tell they resized the video from both sources to play side by side and it completely borks the aspect ratio. They both look terrible like this.
@sinspirit
You clearly do not know what you are talking about. More CPU cores does not directly equate to 1:1 performance gains. It's called the law of diminishing returns and it applies to increasing core counts just as much as it does ROPs on a graphics card.
If adding more cores was so perfectly efficient, we would have Intel CPUs with 8-10 cores already. Adding cores is only beneficial to highly parallel tasks. Unfortunately it always hits a wall beca...
@sinspirit
"For the same given paper spec, a console will deliver twice the perf of a PC, and a PC will deliver twice the perf of a mobile part."
That is what John Carmack said. Not that he is the definitive voice for all video game development. It was an observation, and not one he even backed up with any kind of evidence. I don't know about you, but I question everything I'm blatantly told is a fact without evidence.
Plus,...
I can't take any article seriously that repetitively calls GDDR5 memory DDR5.
How was your post not flagged already? You are openly promoting piracy on the one site I was sure was 98% against it.