Over the last couple of days we’ve discussed Assassin’s Creed Unity’s poor reviews, bugginess, and the Xbox One’s surprising lead over the PS4. Now, it’s time to take a closer look at the PC version, and to see just how bad the performance situation is — and to try and work out why that’s the case. One reason we’ve already heard is that the draw call count on the ...
Sony’s PlayStation 4 is enjoying a massively successful first year, flipping the PS3’s dismal launch script around. While the PS4 is enjoying more success than the PS3 did, the PS3 still has one distinct advantage over its descendent: media playback. With announcement of the PlayStation Vue, a cloud-based TV streaming service, Sony aims to close that media gap. Despite all of the Xbox One’s ...
Sledgehammer Games, the developer of the newly-released Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare first-person shooter, confirms the actual resolution details of the game on the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft, stating that the title runs at a native 1920x1080 on the PS4 and 1360x1080 on the Xbox One. The PS4 and Xbox One have been engaged in a pretty strong war in terms of performance, and the battle has mostly been won by Sony's console, as ...
Remember the big PS4 2.0 firmware release that shipped earlier this month? Well, it turns out there is a bug in this update that can prevent the PS4 from waking properly from Rest Mode (i.e. hibernation, sleep). Affected users are being required to hard boot their systems, and that could potentially cause major problems. There’s no official word on when we’ll see a bug fix, but thankfully there is a workaround ...
Both the Xbox One and PS4 will celebrate their first birthday this month, and as they head into their second holiday season and first full fourth-quarter availability, it’s interesting to take a look at how the two consoles have performed so far. All evidence suggests a significant advantage for the PlayStation 4, with a sales gap of at least 40% between the two systems, and ...