While I agree ubi should have been more up front about the changes especially to the PC crowd I need to ask you a question.

You say its irresponsible for devs to show off games before they know the final spec? Do you realize that would mean we wouldn’t actually see a launch title until about 4-5 months before release of the console? Hardware changes and software changes to the SDK occur right up until the box is sent to manufacturing. SDK changes continue to occur until basically the console is no longer made and those changes can and do effect visual quality.

So we would be ore ordering consoles based on what? We can’t see any games…so that would be incredibly boring.

Instead people need to understand that since after the NES era its always been this way when a new console cycle begins and always will be this way otherwise they can’t show off the console or games until the console is 100% finished. That would give everyone a couple of months notice that a new console is coming out. That would be irresponsible. Instead people need to temper their expectations and understand launch titles and anything unveiled in the first wave of games isn’t going to look as good as the demo did. It just won’t.

Now ubi is most guilty of this. If you noticed crytek with Ryse was showing off and explaining changes and as development went on. People said hey that looks different and crytek would essentially tell them why they changed it.

That’s the model everyone should follow. Most devs do just fine with their predictions but ubi purposefully over promises even after consoles are out…never believe what you see from ubi. Its always running on a high end PC even if they say otherwise.

The problem with this thinking is that it excuses and promotes developers to show and hype games to the public that are, at that time, completely fictitious. I think it’s a bit irresponsible to even show anything before you know what hardware you’re working with. Just keep your trap shut and wait until you have something REAL to show. I’m glad developers are getting called on this because it’s a practice that really shouldn’t be put into place to begin with. Not to mention the way that Ubi swore up and down up until mere weeks before the launch of the game that it would look way better than the worse looking trailers were showing. Which was a complete and utter lie.

But interestingly a lot of the lighting files are just hidden in the code and there are plenty of mods that switch this back on making the game look much better. It’s like they wen’t to the effort and then at the last minute switched if off to make the console versions look like the poor mans version

The division downgraded in both scope,map size and graphics.

Ghost recon wildlands severely downgraded from reveal trailer to the latest gameplay trailer showing a meh game.

Far cry 4, the crew etc all downgrade victims

you know that watch dogs 1 was like the fastest selling ubisoft new ip and it sold like 8 millions +?

yeah because they couldnt have it running on low settings on console and max settings on PC thats why

I doubt it. It will sell and sell well, it looks great.