When they have two choices, XBox One or PS4 at $400, and are interested in those CONSOLES and what they offer in content, games, and features, another huge aspect is how does one perform against the other in actual gaming. This isn't a debate about trying to get the highest framerate and graphical quality you can. If it was then there is PC for that. It is a debate about two consoles at a lower pricepoint than a decent gaming PC and how they compare to each other.
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What? "Upscaling gets you a better image anyway and its fairly close to the native one.".
They don't upscale resolution because it supposedly looks like the resolution it's upscaled to. It's because some TV's have scaling issues.
When comparing 720p to 1080p, and 720p is upscaled, it is still like comparing raw 720p to 1080p. No filter can mask the loss of picture quality.
Apparently you know something about upscali...
Upscaling doesn't make it anywhere near the quality of the resolution it upscales to. All upscaling does is make sure that the image is properly scales, it still doesn't add any more visual information or clarity of the image. It is noticeably worse.
Go ahead and upscale 480p to 1080p. Apparently you think the difference is negligible. The blockiness and blurriness will still be there, no matter what upscaler or filter tries to scale it.
That is not the point here.
It is comparing both consoles that used to be different prices, and the more expensive one had weaker hardware. Which is a completely understandable complaint because of the higher price tag.
This isn't about if you want to get the most graphics just build a high end PC. That's like saying to someone that is trying to chose between two cars to just go ahead and get a jet. It's not because he wants more speed, it's ...
I totally believe you. I think I can trust you more than that "MisterX" guy.
OpenGL is superior to DirectX. This is a controversial topic, but OpenGL is at least capable of just as much, if not more than DirectX, because OpenGL doesn't require downloading a specific version of DirectX every time you download a game, it has had access to tessellation and a ton of other effects normally before DirectX but it simply just doesn't have wide support because of DirectX's hype back in the 90's PC market. DirectX is also only limited to Windows and is more rest...
The cloud will not increase console performance. Azure cloud is not built for processing any heavy workloads, let alone that almost no one has an internet connection good enough to stream that functionality.
DX12 will make almost no difference for X1. X1 already has the low level API that DX12 is basically trying to adapt to PC's.
I wonder why there hasn't been a Black & White game from Lionhead that takes advantage of Kinect. It's a AAA game depending on if they took a sequel seriously and it kind of fits together with Kinect in order to shape the world and play a god.
"Locked" means it is constantly at 60fps unless performance dips down.
It isn't "Unlocked" unless it lets the framerate go as high as the system can handle.
Don't take a term and assume what it means. Locked framerates have always been when it limits the framerate to a specific number, generally 30 or 60 on consoles.
@Irishguy95
It's not referred to as "cinematic" because of any reason other than because halving the framerate from 60 to 30 provides more room to increase the graphical fidelity, and this is where cinematic games come in. They typically will go with the 30 in order to push graphical quality and animations as high as they can while maintaining a smooth experience.
http://n4g.com/news/1550929...
Here's an update. Same thing happening to Live. Too bad you have no bubbles to make a ridiculous defensive statement.
Actually, 30fps was rare for games until XBox came out.
Destiny sales on PS4 have an extra unit involved, the Destiny PS4 system bundle.
These are preorders. Nothing is final.
And like others have said. PS4 might have made more produced copies because of its larger user base.
Right now Destiny on PS4 is number 1 on Amazon in America. Destiny on X1 is 8.
@JBSleek
Yes. It greatly pushed the indie developer status on the market, became a world wide phenomenon, became one of the most iconic games in modern day, made Youtube "Let's Play"'s ever more popular and basically gave people a Youtube career, inspired dozens of voxel-based games and really changed the viewpoint on modern games that graphics don't need to be advanced, and it really pushed the ability to purchase a game while it is still in Beta at a c...
MineCraft.
Why would a start menu not be important? If it was never important why would it have ever existed? It is quick access to an organized list of all of your programs and folders. I can find my way around Windows 8 just fine. But, that doesn't mean there is no better way. In fact they got rid of the better way.
Microsoft Security Essentials is available on other Windows versions. That is the anti-virus you are talking about, and it's hardly as good as other free programs...
@AndrewLB
What? Double the resolution means you have double the pixels. Gotta love people trying to do math and be clever and absolutely failing.
720p is actually less than half of 1080p.
We could also report every top comment of his as spam since he doesn't actually care about most of the topics he posts on. He just posts passive comments that show he has never read the article past the title.
It is very slightly faster performance. Slower navigation.
Windows Defender is in every version of Windows..
You could boot right to desktop. But there is STILL no classic start menu and they promised it a year ago. Now it looks like they are just adding it to Windows 9 as an excuse to get people to spend money on it if they're stuck with 8. I'm tired of using search to find the programs that aren't important enough to keep on my taskbar and I'...
@Imalwaysright
Wrong. The PS4 GPU has a low level API, less bloated OS, and the one set of specifications for developers to optimize for.
John Carmack, a legend in the first person video game genre, says that the performance is potentially double of what a PC equivalent would be.
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_C...
So, basically he says the PS4 i...