Gamespot - "Can You Tell The Difference Between PS4, XONE and PC?"

[shermantanker]

Please read this before clicking on the video, or dismissing it. Okay, so just finished watching this test that game-spot did with there staff. One of their editors ran a blind test on 6 writers to see if they could tell the difference between a few recent games on the PC, XBOX, and PS4. He hooked up 3 systems to 144hz 1080p (yes no 4k, because that would be too easy). ASUS monitors, used an adapter for all 3 to run DS4s, and used tape to block the control prompts :lol:. The pc's specs were good, he said a 3.4Ghz i5 and a reference 780ti. As far as games the choices were not that great, but they are all recent so i'm guessing that's why. First up is Farcry 4, what ever Call of Duty just came out, and...Unity...yeah I know :rolleyes: . I would have personally done Farcry 4, Battlefield 4, and maybe black flag or something. Farcry was an okay choice, battlefield 4 runs very well and would really show the differences much better then COD, and black flag is well...beautiful. Sadly he didn't say anything about what the graphics settings were at... I recommend that you watch it all the way through, because he throws in big curve ball the the end that is like...wait what?!?! Now feel free to watch...then read the rest below.

 

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Now that you have seen this...Wow I was pretty surprised by the results. I mean really the resolution and FPS should have been enough, but damn they are reporters and should be able to tell the difference at least a bit. Even if you have never played on a maxed out PC it's blatant. your thoughts?

 

P.S. if this should be in the general section, please move it.

[79wjd]

I can't watch the video right now, but IGN has been known to tweak settings to make Xbox look better....so it wouldn't surprise me here. 

[iAsuno]

I can't watch the video right now, but IGN has been known to tweak settings to make Xbox look better....so it wouldn't surprise me here. 

except this isn't IGN?

[79wjd]

except this isn't IGN?

My point is, these sources have been proven to lie -- i.e. they could be lying here. 

[ComradeHX]

 

I can't watch the video right now, but IGN has been known to tweak settings to make Xbox look better....so it wouldn't surprise me here. 

 

They tested a few people.

 

Two people(the only two) who didn't get it 100% failed because they could not see difference between 30 and 60fps.

 

LOL

 

Last one they all messed up because it's Assassin's Greed: Unity, you know the one that Ubisoft tried to make every platform look same on.

 

As expected from gamespot; heavily flawed "test."

[d3sl91]

Part of it isn't going in blindly. 

 

If I went into it blindly, sure, I would be more focused on the gameplay than the smaller details on graphics. 

 

Another aprt of it is age. That xbox one will look that good for...6-10 years. PC will bypass the limits shortly and you will be stuck. 

 

Another part is the game. Some developers do a much better job at making multi platform games. Some, dont even utilize a PC as much as they can. 

 

And finally.... it IS more than just graphics. Just graphics alone? Yes, a Both a Honda Accord and a BMW move forwards and backwards and stop. But that doesn't make them comparable.....

[ComradeHX]

That xbox one will look that good for...6-10 years. PC will bypass the limits shortly and you will be stuck. 

 

I don't think Xbox one can look "that good" for 6-10 years.  After 2-3 years; it's going to be called "that bad."

[d3sl91]

I don't think Xbox one can look "that good" for 6-10 years.  After 2-3 years; it's going to be called "that bad."

Yeah, that's what I mean

[Speedyv]

"Yea with the labels you can definitely see the 30 fps to 144 fps difference, but can't see it without the labels"

 

It also has a big difference depending on what you are accustomed to.

And they never revealed the PC settings and the Unity results with the three different setups.

[EarthboundHero]

The thing is, that frame rate and FOV kill a game for me. I can't play a game that is constantly dropping frames, or that is below 90-100 FOV (It makes me sick)

[WelshDdraig]

With the life expectancy of the new consoles, comparing them right now against the PC I feel is not really fair. The game devs might and that is a huge might with a giant grain of salt, reach the same details as a pc, but later in the consoles lives, maybe a year or so, it will be more distinguishable to tell the pc out of the bunch. That and the way that some games devs are treating the platform with optimizations for games on consoles but not on pcs. Not mentioning any names.

[Sky Daddy]

put it this way, if game looks the same on all 3 systems and runs at 60 fps, you can bet that they didn't put any extra effort into the graphics.

[BurgerBum]

the REAL reasons PC is a better choice;

 

mods. 

better controls. 

its a COMPUTER. (kiss that 1500 dollar macbook goodbye, this does everything that it can and more) 

its a GAMING MACHINE (kiss the other 300 dollar appliance goodbye, it does literally everything that it can) 

you cant be a console enthusiast. (except nintendo...... nintendo master race. ) 

 

those features alone. 

 

no further discussion.

[BurgerBum]

The thing is, that frame rate and FOV kill a game for me. I can't play a game that is constantly dropping frames, or that is below 90-100 FOV (It makes me sick)

most humans have around a 120+ FOV (in the tests my youth pastor did and using some wikiipedia)

i need quake style FOV in games to make me happy x'D

[GoldSrc]

You just have to look at the framerate and you can immediately tell the difference between PC and consoles.

I like how one guy in the Gamespot comments said that they should lock the PC framerate to 30 lol.

[Humbug]

Expected results. Visible difference between new consoles and PC is small, law of diminishing returns.... new consoles look good.

Side by side you can notice the difference but blind tests are difficult.

Also for us when we are playing with a precision mouse and on the desktop with monitors close to our face we are a bit more sensitive to framerate and maybe even small graphical details.

 

With a controller and from the couch, or this test setup it really doesn't matter as much.

[Skrizzles]

Did anyone watch the three vids at the end? I think PC was the first. The second two just didn't look as clean. But then, as pointed out above, they could have altered the frame rates, etc. So I don't know

[TheBLOODYTOXIC]

I don't even care about gamespot and ign on this kind of topics or almost every topic they write about. watching comparison from a video, is just stupid.

Is like comparing g-sync and freesync from an iphone camera.

[soaringchicken]

I know in a split second, BF4 on Xbone has virtually no antialiasing so I notice it right away

[Syntaxvgm]

I just played bf4 on my old gaming laptop today on a TV. I run it on minimum settings at 1080p. I felt the detail, framerate, and experience was still much better than on console. 

[Nexxus]

wanted to do the test but its pointless with the compression esp when you are not running matching scene and the DL link is broken

[Ex14]

Hate these kinds of articles. Only we've to stir up responses from idiots on both sides of the fence

[euniqe]

Love how console peasants are continuously trying to bring PC down to their level

[chutia]

They will all look the same because most devs build games for lowest denominator lowest hardware ie consoles so they are basically all going to look the same....then the crappy editors/authors of these game websites indirectly collude by trying to compare games on consoles and pc, which is pointless( in terms of graphical fidelity) in most cases because they are built to look the same on all platforms.

 

The devs make them all look same so that console owners think they are getting the latest and greatest pc like quality games and the game website video editors make these videos to convince people of the same thing. Also the game websites are in the business of selling games because if no one buys console games they dont have a job!!

[RexinOridle]

Well, it's like asking for the difference between 50 shades of black.
Can you tell the difference?

Meh.

Dose it matter?

Yeah, when PC is absolutely white.