Now the game is out and looks the same on both consoles, you look like an idiot

i totally agree with you. The ps4 might look better and might run a bit smoother but if your trying to sell as many copies of your game as possible for which ever platform it is launch for, you would not tell the media that one platform will play and look better than the others. That would be shooting yourself in the foot and resulting in the sales of one platform more than the others. So i think developers should not state which version of the games are going to look and play better, all they should be doing is telling you the features of the game with each platform leaving us as the gamers to see the differences in the games for ourselves

Yeah, but we have video comparisons for a reason. 🙂

Big budget AAA mutliplat games are developed on high end PC’s using high quality assets, with all the console dev kits connected to it, taking what they can from the scaleable game engine that optimises the code to max out each flatform. That is the logical way to do it. You don’t code on the lowest common denominator or put yourself in a situation where you are coding things twice unnecessarily. You always scale down not up.

Very true. We may not see any difference up front on the graphics. They may be identical when you view screenshots side by side. I think the differences will be in how smooth it moves and how many NPC’s are on screen, what they do, or how realistically something bounces due to complex physics. Example on PS4 a NPC drunk might trip over and start arguing with people, while on XB1 he just stumbles around mumbling. You won’t see anything wrong playing either, but one will be deeper. Screenshot comparisons will not tell you any of that.

I think they are pushing each platform to the max because he said the engine scales up to the hardware. There will be differences, but he obviously cannot come out and say it or he will upset MS. He’s just being diplomatic.

Of course it may swing the other way if that game engine is not compatible with PS4 memory architecture. XB1 favours code being broken down into rapid burst of small data so it fits in that EDRAM, but PS4 will struggle with shredded code because although the GDDR5 RAM is faster at transferring data, the latency is an issue compared to DRR3 RAM. A small delay in front of all those tiny data fragments adds up, crippling the performance. Let’s hope the engine codes correctly for each console.

If not, we’ve got Ubi screen tear all over again on PS4.

If that’s the case then I concede there will most likely be no noticeable difference between the two. I was just making the point that, if taken advantage of, the PS4’s hardware is capable of a more than noticeable difference.

Lol.

Except, it isn’t being developed on the PS4. Watch Dogs is being developed on the PC since its unveiling at E3 2012.

It doesn’t. Rendering via cloud isn’t feasible due to latency. Stop playing the what if game to try and bolster defense for the Xbox One.