Why was Watch Dogs downgraded, was it an attempt to deceive the public or did Ubisoft just grossly overestimate the power of the PS4 and Xbone and tried to save face through retarded PR campaigns?
It was never downgraded it always looked like shit except the section they showed off initially was changed to look visualy impressive.
>>319558689
It was promissed 60fps on ps4. Most likely it was downgraded to make the bone version look good in comparison.
The same reason why pc games suffer from downgrade. Just to make the shitty console versions look the same and the braindead consumer not feeling like they are buying a sub par port
>>319559382
>It was promissed 60fps on ps4. Most likely it was downgraded to make the bone version look good in comparison.
ps4 and xbox are nearly the same genius
>>319559540
you are wrong.
ps4 hardware is shit yes, but the bone is worst.
>>319558689
Because consoles, and because they dare not show the PC is capable of much better things because then people might leave their walled garden console-land where they get to just pick up shekels growing from the idiot consumerbase.
But who gives a shit, it was a terrible game.
>>319559540
Most PS4 games are 1080p. Most Xbox One games are 720p.
>>319559816
Most are usually around 900p on Xbone while 1080p on PS4
>>319558689
>It was never downgraded
Exactly this.
Press footage never had anything to do with the actual game.
>>319560184
It would make sense why that one part they kept showing in trailers never made it into the actual game
>>319558689
My dad works for Nintendo.
It's two-fold:
- Publishers make more money off consolefags who pay more for their games, so obviously better not make the PC version plain "better". They can't really exclude the PC platform anyway, it still brings a ton of money, they simply think it could bring more, but studies show they really shouldn't raise their prices, and indeed, they shouldn't, which is what keeps PC prices lower than consoles, albeit they sure have raised. The piracy boogeyman doesn't help either, they like to claim copy protection costs a fortune, but really, it's cheaper than all the bullshit they have to go through to release on console, and it's cracked one week before release anyway, so they could skip on the cost.
They know it might end, PC still looks better, which is why some pubs came up with Origin or Ubi, so they could better control the prices, skip resellers entirely in the process, and communalize anti-piracy technologies, thus making them transversal to all company products.
- Both Microsoft and Sony ask publishers to make their own version look better, and actively fight each other, not only for exclusives, but for framerate or graphics too. Now obviously that excludes PC, albeit Microsoft sometimes campaigned for better PC versions because Windows, but still. On that, you can easily find proof from a few studios that spilled the beans.
They're not aiming to deceive, they all can make much better looking games, just not on console, so they downgrade it all.
And that's only graphics, they've been playing the "secretely timed exclusive" card at the start of this gen too. By delaying PC versions, more people not only flocked to console versions, but were pushed to next gen consoles too. Which is why all those "exclusives" magically ended up on PC.
It's all about money.
>>319558689
>Why was Watch Dogs downgraded
Bait and switch, oldest trick in the book when it comes to hype and marketing.
>>319558689
>downgrade
stop
they just added some extra stuff just for the e3 trailer to make it look good
Because usually, with this shit it's a small slice packaged to show of at a game show. They build this really impressive assets, and then when it's time to put it all together as a part of an actual game world, they go 'Oh shit, that won't work'
>>319561003
But that really wasn't apart of the base game. As we never saw the original E3 gameplay demo section in the actual game
>>319559816
Upscaled 900p is not 1080p kek
>>319560471
It sucks. The DeMarco chase was turned into chasing fucking Deadmau5.
Also for clarity's sake:
Watch Dogs wasnt downgraded but it had its original version 'hidden' in a settings file.
Can't speak for most cases, but for Watch Dogs it's because of marketing team vs Dev team.
At the E3 presentation the marketing team wanted to show off and impress people, well market the game. But on the other side, devs had the pressure after the presentation because they knew it wouldn't look as good from the start and the game wasn't even nearly done and anything, even from the gameplay stand point and many other things.
From what I heard, Watch Dogs devloppment was a disaster and the over hype scared the team, they know they wouldn't deliver, but marketers didn't care.
>>319558689
>downgraded
Why do you people keep using this word, as if the game was ever going to look like that
Do you not understand what filters are? Post-processing?
>>319561726
>From what I heard, Watch Dogs devloppment was a disaster
It was mostly outsourced to shitty teams in India and China and other crappy places.
There was a long blog post one of the developers wrote about how they were coming up on deadlines and one of the contractor groups finished implementing the railway right on time - except the track had right angles instead of curves and the train cars would snap from one angle to another at the turns.
The game was never going to look like the initial demo. Devs just make bullshit footage for E3 to hype people up that isn't representative of the final game. I don't know why it's allowed to show completely fake footage but for some reason it is.
>>319559816
Watch Dogs is 1600x900 on PS4 (and was promised to be 1080p 60 fps) and still runs like shit.
>>319561724
This is a complete fabrication. There might have been some better settings not available in the game but I've played with these settings and seen videos of them and they don't go anywhere near what the original demo was.
>>319559816
>Most PS4 games are 1080p. Most Xbox One games are 720p.
PS4 mainly 900p upscaled. The ones that are 1080p usually can't keep a steady frame rate.
>>319563668
Got a link to that blog?
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>>319564130
Probably talking about this
