Digital Foundry - The Outer Worlds

[Quad Damage 1,763]

17 hours ago, Remij_ said:

go ahead and link them.  Link any of the big games this year.

 

RE2... nope

DMC5... nope

Sekiro... nope

COD:MW... nope

TOW... nope

 

Literally ALL of those games perform better on PS4 Pro...  and that's what we ARE talking about... performance.

 

 

add these too

 

Ace Combat 7

Bizarrely, Microsoft's six-teraflop beast is still locked to full HD resolution and worse still, it's actually less stable than the Pro version in performance terms and doesn't seem to have quite the same level of clarity as its Sony equivalent.

 

Overall though, if you can't play on PC, PS4 Pro is the best way to go - and how it manages to deliver marginally smoother performance than Xbox One X is a bit of a mystery.

 

Anthem

PS4 Pro offers a secondary performance mode - one that is only accessible if you set the 'screen and sound' front-end settings to 1080p resolution. The 30fps cap remains in the final game, however, and the end result is easily the most consistent Anthem experience on any console.

 

However, it is a shame that BioWare doesn't give the user any choice in the matter, while no performance (or rather 'stability') mode is offered to Xbox One X users at all. Regardless, the final version of Anthem offers up two distinct options: on the one hand, Xbox One X does indeed deliver native 4K, albeit with dynamic resolution scaling - though owing to the heavy post-process pipeline, visual advantages are limited compared to the Pro's 1800p. On the other hand, Sony's enhanced console delivers the most consistent experience - in fact, playing PS4 Pro with 1080p output mode enabled is the only Anthem session I've had where I never felt frame-rate issues intrude at all on the quality of the gameplay.

 

Kingdom Hearts 3

However, there is a further dimension to the story and actually, as a Kingdom Hearts fan, it's the PS4 Pro version I'll be playing through to completion. Dip into the console's front end and select the 1080p output resolution and the Pro drops its native 1296p output in favour of standard full HD - 1920x1080. Everything else about the presentation remains the same, but the frame-rate boost you get is a game-changer. The performance range is in the same 50-60fps window as Xbox One X, but the difference is that the Pro locks to the top end much more consistently.

 

Team Sonic Racing

 

[Goukosan 2,283]

6 hours ago, Quad Damage said:

 

add these too

 

Ace Combat 7

Bizarrely, Microsoft's six-teraflop beast is still locked to full HD resolution and worse still, it's actually less stable than the Pro version in performance terms and doesn't seem to have quite the same level of clarity as its Sony equivalent.

 

Overall though, if you can't play on PC, PS4 Pro is the best way to go - and how it manages to deliver marginally smoother performance than Xbox One X is a bit of a mystery.

 

Anthem

PS4 Pro offers a secondary performance mode - one that is only accessible if you set the 'screen and sound' front-end settings to 1080p resolution. The 30fps cap remains in the final game, however, and the end result is easily the most consistent Anthem experience on any console.

 

However, it is a shame that BioWare doesn't give the user any choice in the matter, while no performance (or rather 'stability') mode is offered to Xbox One X users at all. Regardless, the final version of Anthem offers up two distinct options: on the one hand, Xbox One X does indeed deliver native 4K, albeit with dynamic resolution scaling - though owing to the heavy post-process pipeline, visual advantages are limited compared to the Pro's 1800p. On the other hand, Sony's enhanced console delivers the most consistent experience - in fact, playing PS4 Pro with 1080p output mode enabled is the only Anthem session I've had where I never felt frame-rate issues intrude at all on the quality of the gameplay.

 

Kingdom Hearts 3

However, there is a further dimension to the story and actually, as a Kingdom Hearts fan, it's the PS4 Pro version I'll be playing through to completion. Dip into the console's front end and select the 1080p output resolution and the Pro drops its native 1296p output in favour of standard full HD - 1920x1080. Everything else about the presentation remains the same, but the frame-rate boost you get is a game-changer. The performance range is in the same 50-60fps window as Xbox One X, but the difference is that the Pro locks to the top end much more consistently.

 

Team Sonic Racing

 

X was a mistake 

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X marks the flop.

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