PC sales on vgchartz is a bit misleading. They only track boxed sales from retailers. All digital sales don't get accounted for, or even reported in most cases.
look at the sales numbers.
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=watch+dogs
that is why pc gets the backburner.
ps3 and 360 sold 4x and 3x more than pc, and it's 10 year old tech.
I could show you water effects and foliage differences in Far Cry 3 that are still crap compared to Far Cry 1.
Dunia is made by a guy working for Ubi while Far Cry was being developed and worked on an engine for Ubi that by their estimates uses 1%-2% of the Crytek1 engine.
If anyone confused Dunia with Crytek1 then they do with blinders on because there is still a lot lacking.
Dunia was made to work with the consoles and basically kills half of what made Crytek 1 great.
The Dunia Engine is a game engine designed by Kirmaan Aboobaker while working at Crytek. The name means "World" in Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic, Malay, Swahili, Bahasa Indonesia and Turkish. It is based on CryEngine 1 but was heavily modified by the Ubisoft Montreal development team for use in Far Cry 2 with only 2-3% of the code being re-used from CryEngine 1.[1] A reworked and modified version of the Dunia Engine is used for James Cameron's Avatar: The Game.
Far Cry 2's vegetation technology is also used in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, though these games do not use the Dunia Engine, but instead are using Anvil.[2]
Far Cry 3 is the first game to use a new version of the engine called Dunia Engine 2.[3]
Softpedia originally quoted Hutchinson based on his appearance on Major Nelson’s podcast, leading with the headline “Far Cry 4 on PS4, Xbox One Equivalent to PC Ultra High.” I’ve listened to the podcast personally, and, in Hutchinson’s defense, at no point did he actually say this. What Hutchinson did say is that Ubisoft primarily develops on PC with the exception of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, which is developed using the console as its lead platform. The exact quote was ”But because we develop on PC, you’ve never really seen on console the ultra-high PC version before.” He never explicitly states that the next-gen console versions are equivalent to PC Ultra high quality settings, even if he does vaguely infer it later.
What Hutchinson says next is what has me concerned as a primary PC gamer. ”So even out of the box, even day one, we just stuck the code on the new consoles and we were able to dial it all the way up. So as a console player you’re already getting by far the best version we can ship.” [emphasis added]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev...eems-determined-to-alienate-their-pc-fanbase/
It appears that some of the quotes were misrepresented and not what was said at all.
So what I'm reading from this is that the PC version on ultra high didn't change from what they developed for the game with the PC as the lead platform. They put that game on the console and tried turning things on to match the PC version. It seems to run fine (I assume 30fps and possibly 1080p but maybe not). I don't see anything that said they are identical, just that you have all the options turned on like you can on the PC. Minus the AA modes and resolution options and fps differences.
What? Internet game "journalism" does no research, has misleading headlines to generate hits, and is pretty much dead wrong? Can't be true!
PC sales on vgchartz is a bit misleading. They only track boxed sales from retailers. All digital sales don't get accounted for, or even reported in most cases.
No. Dunia was made at Crytek.
You realize you can look up any game on that site, not all games are tied to Steam/Valve, like the Battlefield 3 or 4 (which looks awful for PC as well).
You realize you can look up any game on that site, not all games are tied to Steam/Valve, like the Battlefield 3 or 4 (which looks awful for PC as well).
Origin doesn't release sales figures for digital download either, and out of everyone I know that plays BF3/BF4, not a single person bought it in-store. The last in-store PC game I bought was BC2 so I could gift to my brother-in-law who has a crappy internet connection that has a data cap.
PC games are BIG business, no two ways about it. Why do you think we're seeing more PC ports than ever? It's just a terrible RETAIL business due to Steam/Origin/etc and online sales/promotions.
"Xbox One is equal to high-end PC"
So that is why 2008 PC hardware running Crysis 1 still completely obliterates 2014 consoles and all of their games in terms of native rendering resolution, framerate, and overall graphical quality.
Please stop me from laughing to death.
2008 PC can't run Crysis 1 at max settings anyway at reasonablee framerates. Crysis 1 has already been surpassed in graphics anyhow and runs better. See CryEngine 3 & Frostbyte 2.
Why mention max settings when I have never seen console games with actual graphics (read: not prerendered CGI or PC rendered at trade shows) that matches Crysis High IQ with 2008 PC hardware.
The fact this new gen of consoles even have resort to sub-1080p rendering shenanigans like Sunset Overdrive is laughable.
Learned my lesson after Watch_Dogs. Never pre-order Ubisoft games and wait a few months for a sale.
More than a sale. Should be bargain bin and even that would be too much to throw to Ubisoft.
I'll be honest, Far Cry 3 was a great game. Even if it's more of the same, it's a day one buy for me.
No one ever mentions the weird tree graphics in FC3. If you hang glide at a decent altitude and look down, every tree is a single polygon that rotates to always face the player. Every tree rotates more and more quickly as you approach it, and then in a the blink of an eye it rotates nearly 180 degrees as you fly by. Once I saw it, it was hard to ignore it.
Probably easier to notice because of the hang glider, but that's a graphical trick that's been in use for a while now. It's usually a draw distance thing from what I've seen... trees farther away are just a flat texture that "follows" you hoping you won't notice. The trees closer to you should be better rendered though. But still, I imagine it's not mentioned because it's not new.