Assassin’s Creed Unity’s current specifications may yet be for the chop, as Ubisoft has stressed that nothing is set in stone yet. Senior producer Vincent Pontbriand caused a merde tempête of epic proportions yesterday when he suggested that the PlayStation 4 version of the firm’s forthcoming French revolution foray may have been scaled back for the Xbox One – but the publisher has since denied any such speculation.
And now, in a statement issued to Eurogamer.net, the organisation has hinted that there still may be time to enhance the title’s performance. Currently the release is running at 30 frames-per-second in 900p, which is some way short of the 60 frames-per-second in 1080p target that it revealed at E3. “Final specs for Assassin's Creed Unity aren't cemented yet,” a spokesperson said, “but we can say that we showed Assassin's Creed Unity at 900p during our hands-on preview event last week.”
The company continued: “The development team has been hard at work delivering the best Assassin's Creed possible on next generation consoles. Regardless of which platform that you're playing on, Assassin's Creed Unity will answer what an Assassin's Creed game built from the ground up for the next generation of gaming looks like and will be the best looking Assassin's Creed game ever developed.”
The verbose statement seems like more face saving from the clearly flustered firm, but we accept that wild optimisation improvements can occur during the final hours of production. In fact, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag offered evidence of this, as it set sail on the PS4 in 900p, but a launch day patch bumped up its resolution to 1080p. At the end of the day, none of this really matters – but if Ubisoft has purposefully opted for parity, only the guillotine will suffice for the shamed French outfit.
[source eurogamer.net]
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So at the hands on event did anyone say, this looks sh*t? Probably not. People are just concerned Ubi isn't being a bunch of lollies. I think probably they're just struggling to get it up to scratch, delay is flavour of the season so why not just do that? Anyway, couldn't care less ZzzzZzzzZzzz.
I would rather have the best playing than the best looking assassins creed. Too much talk of graphics, not enough talk of gameplay.
I think 900p is fine for the graphics, what I really want them to accomplish is 60 fps. I would prefer a 900p/60fps game rather than a 1080p/30fps version of it.
It's still going to look amazing regardless visuals aspects of the game already are more appealing than its predecessor
people get to hung up on resolution and frame rate nowadays, I miss the days when people played games for fun and not because they look nice
@FullbringIchigo Remember the old days, when games actually ran in 60fps? Yeah, the SNES could do it, so can a PS4.
I don't really need 1080 but yeah 60fps is a need now
Play last of us on 30 was a hassle
I'm sorry, but this does matter. Even if PS4 can't hit 1080p, 60 fps, if it could do 1080p at a locked 30 fps, and there's every reason to believe it can, then that's what should be happening. There isn't anything any idiot at Ubisoft can say right now, short of '1080p on PS4' that is going to fix this mess. Even if it's a patch, fine, it's bullcrap, but better than nothing. That better be announced soon though in less than a week, otherwise my pre-order and any future plans to purchase, are cancelled and I'll spend the $60 on either Sleeping Dogs Definitive or a take a chance on Mikami's The Evil Within.
I don't understand why people still play Ubisoft games. They never deliver on their technical promises & the gameplay seems eerily similar between most of their big releases. Ubisoft haven't made a must play title for over 2 years now..
FIY, it's "tempête de merde" and not "merde tempête"... but we don't have an equivalent of sh*tstorm in french unfortunately! ;p
People are not upset by the resolution itself per se, but at the idea of gimping and not allowing the game to be the best it can be on every platform. There is a solid belief that the PS4 can run this game at 1080p based on the success of other games to achieve that benchmark. People want the best version possible, not a scaled back one due to some marketing idea of equity. That whole concepts stinks of looking after MS as the XBO is less capable and they are sponsoring that game. Difficult for MS to get value for money when their sponsored game runs better on the competition.
That is what is clearly in play. The web community is not stupid and saw thought the comment in a heart beat. If Ubisoft doesn't change their mind and release a "best possible" PS4 version which I am 100% convinced would be 1080p on PS4, (60fps maybe/maybe not.) then they will lose PS4 sales. It will still sell well on PS4, but there will be a boycott to a degree. Sales will drop. So there is a money impact to their decision. Just a question of how much, which is hard to predict.
@KillTheG1mp I knew someone was going to correct it! Haha, good attempt at dodging our 'no swearing' policy, though, right?!
@get2sammyb indeed!
@get2sammyb Does that mean that we can all swear as long as it is in french?! lol. Don't tempt me....no really...don;t.
Ubisoft: AC Unity will be the best looking Assassin's Creed game ever developed.
But Black Flag run 1080p so wouldn't that look better than 900p?
I've started having nothing but issues with PSN and if something isn't done about PSN lag or my PS4 in general I might trade it towards an X1. I surprise myself saying this but it true. I know the PS4 is meant to be more powerful but it can't even run last gen games without getting hot and the fan getting loud. My DUALSHOCK 4 sticks are made of cheap rubber which has since come off. Can't even synce my trophies these days. These complaints are but a few I have but I don't want to be trolled by the fanboys.
Sony had a great start but they've started loosing my trust in building a quality machine due to my second PS4 being worse than the first. They can't even keep PSN up and running before it comes crashing back down. How in the hell will they keep PlayStation Now running.
Fanboys you may start you bashing...
I bought a ps4, because Sony stated that it was next gen and that 1080p was the next best thing since sliced bread.
I agree that gameplay is far more important than resolution, but it is now 2014 and surely we should be leaving the ps3/360 behind in terms of resolution? ...I hope Ubisoft are not catering for Microsoft!.
With the way Microsoft go about their business, I wouldn't put it past them to pay game developers to pretend the Ps4 is struggling to make games run at 1080p, to make their Xbox one look just as good!.
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