The Watch Dogs preview was recently confirmed to be PC footage, though it will come out on 360 and ps3. It's not going to look nearly as nice. In the chat yesterday a bunch of people were "asking what console is this running on?" Answer: high end PC

Most of the impressive looking games yesterday (that are going to be multi platform) were shown on a PC. I wonder how many console users know they their version will look substantially worse?

The console peasants will not notice. They don't have the specially developed eyes for seeing in true HD like PC gamers do.

/sarcasm

For realsies, though, I'd imagine it'll be a Deus Ex: Human Revolution scenario where it looks almost just as good but has looong load times.

I'm guessing that Watch Dogs and 1313 aren't going to be out until the new consoles are out, so they'll just have the best version on those and the less-good version on the 360/ps3.

I spotted it the second the demo started. You can tell by lack of jaggies. I know some people where trying to say Watch Dogs was running on Wii U, no shot at that detail level.

Well obviously, that's how they always do it.

I think everyone saw the black controller and assumed PS3 or 360, I know I thought it was the PS3, and didn't consider the preview demo to be running on a high end PC using some form of 3rd party controller.

@Hamz said:

I think everyone saw the black controller and assumed PS3 or 360, I know I thought it was the PS3, and didn't consider the preview demo to be running on a high end PC using some form of 3rd party controller.

It's also possible to link a standard DualShock 3 to any PC with bluetooth using specific drivers.

@jmood88 said:

I'm guessing that Watch Dogs and 1313 aren't going to be out until the new consoles are out, so they'll just have the best version on those and the less-good version on the 360/ps3.

The next gen consoles aren't going to look better than the PC.

Its also possible that the guy wasnt playing at all.

That doesn't really bother me. When I saw the footage of it yesterday I assumed it wasn't being shown on current-gen consoles.

@squirrelnacho: They probably will look about even if not slightly better like they did with the last 2 generations.

Yes, the current high end PCs have more powerful hardware than what the Playstation 5 will have, that's why developers show their 'next gen' games on PC to a console crowd. They use it as a magic machine, but don't respect its users to give them proper games, or games at all.

@MikkaQ said:

Well obviously, that's how they always do it.

@RedRavN

They will look equal to a medium spec pc for the first year at best. One of the next gen consoles is rumored to have only the equivalent of an AMD 6670.

@Gamer_152 said:

That doesn't really bother me. When I saw the footage of it yesterday I assumed it wasn't being shown on current-gen consoles.

Yeah, me too. I mean those faces were incredible plus the rain effects on the street were mind blowing at least to my eyes. Either the developer somehow figured out how to get the hidden stash of tooth past out of the xbox 360/PS3's cap or they were running it on a PC.

@jmood88 said:

I'm guessing that Watch Dogs and 1313 aren't going to be out until the new consoles are out, so they'll just have the best version on those and the less-good version on the 360/ps3.

Pretty sure Watch Dogs has been confirmed for 360 and PS3- so its not waiting for the next-gen consoles.

Star Wars 1313 hasn't been confirmed yet though. We know it's going to be multi-platform as well, but whether or not its the first actual next-gen game we've been allowed to see, or if it is going to be scaled down for 360/PS3 remains to be seen.

However the lack of space needed to run anything else on a console means you can always push what ever is in your Xbo/PS? that much harder. I'm no expert and I know the PC will always look better because its potential is always technically limitless but I will be very suprised if we don't see graphics as least as good as that demo on new consoles. Although it might take them a year or 2 to properly figure out what ever they have, initial 360 games look rubbish compared to present.

@RedRavN

They will look equal to a medium spec pc for the first year at best. One of the next gen consoles is rumored to have only the equivalent of an AMD 6670.

They were playing a lot of PS3 controllers. But now I'm struggling. Play these games on my consoles, or move on to my new high end PC... Dillema. I like to have the games all consistently on one platform so if I move to PC, I'd need to rebuy the other games in the series on PC. Hmm...

It looked great, but some people kept saying it was probably runing on a next gen console. If that is what next gen launch titles will look like I'm going to be very disappointed.

The game is lead on PC DX11

@Tesla

It's completely unlikely that will put a high end GPU in it and still keep the price reasonable. Going back year's consoles have never had high end GPU's in them. A mid range AMD 7850 costs $250 right now.

At best, this generation will look equal to a midrange PC for the first year.

I doubt they'd put it out on PC first. Nobody really plays PC games anymore.

or move on to my new high end PC... 

@CrimsonAvenger said:

Nobody really plays PC games anymore.

What planet are you from? Diablo III says hello.

@warxsnake said:

The game is lead on PC DX11

Awesome!

Unrelated but I feel have to say this, and who better to say it to than someone who works at Ubi: I hated FC2 with every fiber of my being, so I was pretty surprised to find myself genuinely excited for Far Cry 3. Seriously, seems like you guys have done a great job on this one. Looks gorgeous, loving the characters already, voice acting seems infinitely better than what we had in FC2, and I think I even detected an Uncharted vibe somewhere, now all that's left is for the gameplay to be everything I'm hoping it would be... or at least not make the same mistakes as FC2.

@AhmadMetallic said:

@LiquidPrince said:

or move on to my new high end PC...

Congratz man. Prepare to have your mind blown

I've been enjoying for about a month now with my mind blown. Check out my latest blog.

I am unreasonably excited for this game. Dont really care so much about the exact details as long as they have a decent PC release without nutty DRM.

@Tesla said:

@squirrelnacho

@RedRavN

They will look equal to a medium spec pc for the first year at best. One of the next gen consoles is rumored to have only the equivalent of an AMD 6670.

Key word "rumor".

Thinly veiled PC elitism is thinly veiled.

Also, keep in mind the current gen has like a 7800gt or equivalent as a graphics card and they have gotten a lot of mileage out of it. A game like gears or war, GTA4, or alan wake would struggle on the bare minimum if that card was in a PC but the consoles are so much more efficient they can run those games at high details. Its much easier to optimize a console game and there is no operating system to load. So even a card like a 6670 will put out some serious graphics in a console.

But as a PC gamer it is obvious that a high spec PC will always be superior, but it would not suprise me if the next gen consoles could match a high spec PC for a year or so, but obviously at a much lower resolution and with no anti-aliasing.

You don't say.

@squirrelnacho said:

The Watch Dogs preview was recently confirmed to be PC footage, though it will come out on 360 and ps3. It's not going to look nearly as nice. In the chat yesterday a bunch of people were "asking what console is this running on?" Answer: high end PC

Most of the impressive looking games yesterday (that are going to be multi platform) were shown on a PC. I wonder how many console users know they their version will look substantially worse?

Who cares how it looks? As long as it plays the same,then I could care less

@AhmadMetallic said:

Yes, the current high end PCs have more powerful hardware than what the Playstation 5 will have, that's why developers show their 'next gen' games on PC to a console crowd. They use it as a magic machine, but don't respect its users to give them proper games, or games at all.

I think you're getting a bit carried away there.

It looked great, but some people kept saying it was probably running on a next gen console. If that is what next gen launch titles will look like I'm going to be very disappointed.

Ahh, nothing like a E3 demo of a non-platform specified game to get fanboys to argue about the technical aspects of games that they know absolutely shit about.

@Ravenlight said:

The console peasants will not notice. They don't have the specially developed eyes for seeing in true HD like PC gamers do.

/sarcasm

For realsies, though, I'd imagine it'll be a Deus Ex: Human Revolution scenario where it looks almost just as good but has looong load times.

But Human Revolution isn't much of a looker on pc. Probably be more of a battlefield 3 situation where they look like completely different games.

@squirrelnacho said:

The Watch Dogs preview was recently confirmed to be PC footage, though it will come out on 360 and ps3. It's not going to look nearly as nice. In the chat yesterday a bunch of people were "asking what console is this running on?" Answer: high end PC

Most of the impressive looking games yesterday (that are going to be multi platform) were shown on a PC. I wonder how many console users know they their version will look substantially worse?

Who cares how it looks? As long as it plays the same,then I could care less

Anyone who plays the 360/PS3 versions over the inevitable PS4/Nextbox versions is a fool. Shit is going to look hot on next gen systems.

@Andorski

Its already been confirmed that it was running on PC footage and will be released for 360 and PS3.

It was really interesting until it turned into a shooter. Staging "accidents" as alternate ways of taking someone out makes me think of Hitman. :)

@AhmadMetallic said:

Yes, the current high end PCs have more powerful hardware than what the Playstation 5 will have, that's why developers show their 'next gen' games on PC to a console crowd. They use it as a magic machine, but don't respect its users to give them proper games, or games at all.

I think you're getting a bit carried away there.