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Watch Dogs PC/PS4 compared

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Surprise! PC wins! Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry has compared this year’s E3 footage of Watch Dogs, running on a PlayStation 4 with the E3 2012 footage running on a PC, and found that the newer PS4 footage doesn’t compare to a high end PC from last year.

The newer PS4 just doesn’t quite have as much of that fidelity and sheen we saw from the PC demo in 2012. Worse still is that the frame-rate stutters quite a bit  on the PS4 version. Of course, the Pc version was obviously running on the very bleeding edge, while the PS4 one is code that will still be worked on and tailored to the console’s hardware – but it really is a bit telling that the PS4 can’t even beat year-old PC hardware; what’s it going to be like when the PS4 is released at the end of this year?

honestly though; I’;m just excited for the game and don;t really care about the graphical bells and whistles. all I want is an immersive experience, and I’m sure that Watch Dogs will deliver just that, regardless of platform.

Last Updated: July 15, 2013

72 Comments

  1. Trevor Davies

    July 15, 2013 at 15:10

    By bleeding edge I assume you mean a Celeron processor, 256MB RAM & a Voodoo gfx card. trollol

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  2. Admiral Chief Groot Wors

    July 15, 2013 at 15:12

    Hahaha, indeeeeed

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  3. Admiral Chief Groot Wors

    July 15, 2013 at 15:12

    PC’s. We been havin it!

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  4. Admiral Chief Groot Wors

    July 15, 2013 at 15:13

    Jokes aside, awesome looking game!

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    • Trevor Davies

      July 15, 2013 at 15:14

      That it does, think PC & PS4 owners will have a fun time.

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      • TEST SUBJECT

        August 29, 2013 at 05:08

        I’ll probably end up getting it for both. Just to see the difference, and to see if my setup can out perform the PS4.

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  5. Admiral Chief Groot Wors

    July 15, 2013 at 15:14

    Graphics like this?

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    • RinceWind

      July 15, 2013 at 15:32

      Not this 🙂

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      • Admiral Chief Groot Wors

        July 15, 2013 at 15:46

        Y U NO LIEK?

        Reply

        • RinceWind

          July 15, 2013 at 15:49

          Darryn, it’s Darryn, he scares me on some primordial level…

          Reply

          • Admiral Chief Groot Wors

            July 15, 2013 at 15:57

            Why? Too short to be effective 😉

    • John Ambitious

      July 15, 2013 at 15:48

      I never knew Geoffrey had hips like that and Darryn, those pants are too tight.

      Reply

  6. Umar Kiiroi Senk?

    July 15, 2013 at 15:14

    It desn’t look heaps ahead of the PC, or is my eyes just deceiving me

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    • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

      July 15, 2013 at 15:18

      It’s not ahead of the PC. It’s behind. Sure not by a whole lot. But the fact is they kept saying how next-gen consoles will beat the pants off the PC hardware and is so much more advanced and here is a video showing that the PS4, while comparable to higher tech, still doesn’t have what it takes to be better like people are claiming

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      • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

        July 15, 2013 at 15:22

        Whoops, meant the other way around. and sure it is behind but it doesn’t seem like it is really that big of a gap. and thing is it will never beat a PC, What spec PC do they compare it to. I never buy into it as no console will EVER beat a PC, especially an EX ULTRA MEGA spec PC. those arguments are kind of pointless and just a marketing scheme.

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        • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

          July 15, 2013 at 15:25

          I hear you man.

          I just meant that so many people are stating that the PS4 will beat current gen PC’s hands down and that video shows that it isn’t capable of running the game the same when compared against a current gen PC.

          The PS4 is still a monster of a console for next-gen. It’s just that it frustrates me when people claim that the things will beat the pants off of current gen PC’s and then under-deliver because it wasn’t possible to begin with. They should rather have stayed away from claiming superiority against PC because now it all looks like cheap marketing from the console developers because the consoles now cannot do what they claimed it was apparently so capable of.

          That being said it is impressive how the PS4 does match so closely though. One has to give credit where due of course

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          • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

            July 15, 2013 at 15:28

            Feel you on that one. Should rather be stated that the PS 4 can manage to get close to Current gen High end PCs, not be better than it, but hey you will always see these type of things at the start pf a console’s life.

          • Spathi

            July 15, 2013 at 15:37

            I’ve always viewed consoles as game dedicated PCs. Even more so this current gen. I don’t get the whole PC vs Console thing. It’s like saying my Gelandewagen does everything better than your two seater Mazda MX5. Obviously it does, but what the console (Mazda) was intended to do, and for the price it does it, it does it damn well…

            Also, people who claim consoles can compete with PCs (no holds barred), are idiots.

          • Admiral Chief Groot Wors

            July 15, 2013 at 15:39

            *Geländewagen

          • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

            July 15, 2013 at 15:45

            This!
            Sphati I could not agree more

          • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

            July 15, 2013 at 15:51

            🙂 agreed Spathi … so true!

          • Brady miaau

            July 15, 2013 at 16:14

            wow. 🙂 A cut above

            That makes sense, is clear cut and to the point.

            Nicely said, well done.

            And the Miata is better than, say, a big sedan for taking corners, but I cannot pack, for example, my groceries or dog in it.

          • Troll Slayer

            July 15, 2013 at 16:18

            You just called everyone in this thread an idiot yo!

          • Spathi

            July 15, 2013 at 16:29

            Actually the people here are all level-headed. Mostly 😛

      • Thomas McBrearty

        July 15, 2013 at 15:56

        First party games will be in a few years, not games from the likes of Ubisoft…

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      • Hugo Stiglitz

        August 4, 2013 at 23:42

        Launch games on PS3 didn’t beat PC games either, then they optimized the hardware (which will happen quicker this time)

        Can’t judge shit until the games are optimized for PS4. Especially given Ubisofts terrible track record. Just look at AC 1 and AC 2, or look at how badly optimized their games are on PC. If you want a game fully optimized on a console, don’t expect it from ubisoft for at least a few years. They didn’t hit their stride until AC Revelations on consoles, 5 years after the consoles were out.

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    • Tbone187

      July 15, 2013 at 16:32

      remember , it’s a year old pc…

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      • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

        July 15, 2013 at 19:41

        Ya.well agh man. We all know the PC is better. Still to me ps 4 doesnt look bad at all and I dont see such a huge difference

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        • Harvey P Cheesewinkle

          July 15, 2013 at 19:50

          Well, I think the real question is, exactly how much has PC Gaming been held back because of the 360/PS3. We know it’s happened, and we know developers were clamoring for new consoles pre-reveals from Sony and Microsoft.

          I think it’s safe to assume from what we’ve seen that the newer generation will really start to tap into that surplus of hardware power that’s gone largely unused by the industry, just from seeing what Frostbite 2 could do on PC versus console.

          It’s a unique position really, because in previous generations, developers didn’t give a shit and just went crazy on the PC version. This gen though, devs literally kept PC-centric bells and whistles intentionally out of the process for multi-plat games (see Crysis 2/3). So, as with most console generations, I think you’re just going to see developers going wholesale batty with the resources they have at their disposal, both on console and on PC.

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          • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

            July 16, 2013 at 08:03

            I don’t think consoles held PC’s back. Consoles Gamers just wana play games and a huge majority of gamers don’t care if the games looks better on PC. in all honesty I love PC gaming, but I’m not a huge fan of all the controversy it has spawned and all the elitism that comes with it. constant bickering about how PC’s are so much stronger than a console. well PCs doesn’t have The Last of Us or Okami or even Shadow of the Colossus. PCs are for the Elite, a top end PC costs so much, which is why consoles are so popular and that is why Consoles get most of the games. There will probably be some convergence as you mentioned in the next gen

          • Harvey P Cheesewinkle

            July 16, 2013 at 14:57

            Oh christ, another buzz word loyalist. Did you even read what I wrote? Seriously? Or did you just scan the first couple lines? I said DEVELOPERS WANTED MORE RESOURCES. I hope that translates, if you need me to google translate it into Afrikaans for ya, I can do that also.

            Get your head out of your ass. The technology behind gaming has increased dramatically since the PS3/360 came out. There’s a hell of allot more to gaming than just graphics (notice, you said graphics, not me…not once…so much for that elitism theory).

            AI, Open worlds, physics, vast variety of choice in interaction with the game, destructibility, I could seriously keep going, for quite some time, without even uttering anything about graphics. But, that’s the entirety of you console peoples argument (in a fucking discussion, that had nothing to do with PC vs Console players, had everything to do with games in general and the resources those games need to evolve). Oh you PC Gamer’s are graphics whores and elitists. I guess that makes developers and hardware manufacturers elitists, for knowing that the current gen hardware just can’t cut it for the games they want to create, right?

            Oh yeah, and Mods.

            Don’t even know why I bother sometimes.

          • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

            July 16, 2013 at 15:05

            Jeez …. I wasn’t trying to argue………..wow………just gave my point of view in response, wasn’t calling anyone in particular elitists, I was talking about the people that just rant on about graphics…..Whether you like it or not ………. there is a lot of elitism going on in both consoles and PC……….so ahhh…….chill out

          • Harvey P Cheesewinkle

            July 16, 2013 at 17:08

            And yet, I said nothing about graphics, you assumed. You’re the one who brought it up (and 90% of the time, it IS console gamer’s bringing up graphics, because apparently that’s all they know about games), thus perpetuating the banal and woefully inaccurate assumption that PC gamer’s are elitists because zomg graphics.

            And don’t play coy, how is “PCs are for the Elite”, not labeling a group of people? Do you know every single PC Gamer? Have you questioned them on the reasons why they chose PC Gaming? No? So how would you know anything about them? Or is this anecdotal with regards to your life, and your life only?

            I’ve been PC Gaming for…hmmm, at LEAST 25 years now (during which time, I’ve also owned nearly every console released), and I’m not lording it over people while I played World of Warcraft, because yeah, total graphical powerhouse, right? Or the text based MUD that I’ve played since my early teens. Yeah, that ASCII Text is really eye popping.

            EVERY Gamer should want to see this industry moving forward, and developers given every tool and resource they want to evolve this ‘hobby’ of ours. Every gamer. If you can’t afford certain things about it, just be thankful it isn’t actually a necessity of life.

            I’m pretty fucking tired of being labeled an elitist, just because I’m excited to see what developer’s can do with their visions, when they’re given everything they want to do it with. If that’s too harsh a response for you, maybe you should rethink your phrasing a little more, because I’m more than happy to engage you in a manner befitting your response.

            I’ll chill out, when you can respond in a way that doesn’t try and separate me from GAMERS, just because I spent 6 fucking months designing and saving up for the pieces and parts of my PC, that I use for everything from gaming, to work.

          • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

            July 16, 2013 at 17:34

            ……………………well in anycase….sorry if I offended you. was not my intention. I’m not playing coy or anything and telling me to take my head out of my ass just makes me regret i ever responded to a foul mouth hot head as yourself . if you dont like what i said, respond in decent manner or don’t at all . I regret saying pc is for the elite..but after your foul response, I don’t care

          • Harvey P Cheesewinkle

            July 16, 2013 at 19:39

            You had an opportunity to have a conversation like an adult, but decided to use branding and generalizations to marginalize an entire group of people that you neither know, or understand.

            It makes about as much sense as calling everyone on console a racist chauvenistic, fratboy douchebag because of how a few vocal people behave in multi-player.

            Match the tone of your response with what you’re responding to, and things like this won’t happen.

          • NO

            September 8, 2013 at 01:22

            it didnt seem like he was trying to argue with you so stop being a cunt

  7. RinceWind

    July 15, 2013 at 15:20

    Engage anti-trolling pants, foil hats are a go, repeat, foil hats are a go. I think we need to wait for them to actually finish, you know, building of the machine…

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    • Trevor Davies

      July 15, 2013 at 15:23

      lol true true. But let us have our moment before we remember that you get awesome exclusives.

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      • RinceWind

        July 15, 2013 at 15:30

        I mean really? The machine hasn’t been finished yet! lol

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      • John Ambitious

        July 15, 2013 at 15:32

        Nice to watch though. The rain looks awesome

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    • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

      July 15, 2013 at 15:23

      Don’t know how he picked up frame rate issues, we don’t even know if those frame rates are unstable due to hardware or just crappy videos or video editting

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      • Admiral Chief Groot Wors

        July 15, 2013 at 15:31

        Or from bug in game?

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        • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

          July 15, 2013 at 15:33

          Indeed, comparison videos should only be done once the game is released and benchmarked on those systems. this is too inaccurate to compare

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          • RinceWind

            July 15, 2013 at 15:33

            Agreed.

          • Trevor Davies

            July 15, 2013 at 15:34

            but in the mean time, lets all agree PCs are better 😉 trollol

          • Admiral Chief Groot Wors

            July 15, 2013 at 15:34

            Lets agree that GAMING is better?

            (PCs too)

          • Trevor Davies

            July 15, 2013 at 15:36

            Gaming wins all the time!

          • Umar Kiiroi Senk?

            July 15, 2013 at 15:35

            LOOOOL , the internet, gotta love it

          • RinceWind

            July 15, 2013 at 15:36

            What is a PC? 0-O

          • Trevor Davies

            July 15, 2013 at 15:39

            I don’t know, I just see people talking about it all the time & I want to fit in & be accepted. :/

          • John Ambitious

            July 15, 2013 at 15:57

            It’s a Participation Certificate…

          • RinceWind

            July 15, 2013 at 16:02

            Ahh 🙂

  8. Uberutang

    July 15, 2013 at 15:46

    Frame rate on the PS4 looks a bit wonky, but they can iron that out.

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  9. TiMsTeR1033

    July 15, 2013 at 16:05

    Ps4 stuttering like crackwhore who hasnt had her fix for awhile and explaining to da pimp where the money at!! LMAO. They will iron out the framerate coz thats like unplayable

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    • FoxOneZA - X-Therminator

      July 15, 2013 at 16:12

      It’s stuttering like a PS3 which I find quite annoying. Could be an OS limitation on the PS4’s side.

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  10. FoxOneZA - X-Therminator

    July 15, 2013 at 16:10

    No matter how much RAM you have, you still need RAW processing power.

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  11. Jakster

    July 15, 2013 at 16:21

    It’s going to be the year of the PS4 they said. Maybe next-year!

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  12. Rags

    July 15, 2013 at 16:27

    Well there is certainly a lot more poly’s in that than GTA V. Can’t wait!

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  13. Tbone187

    July 15, 2013 at 16:28

    Any idea as to what the specs were on the PC??

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  14. Maxiviper117

    July 15, 2013 at 16:44

    Pointless argument when the bleeding edge Pc that demo was running on was probably like 20-30k worth of power, how they really should compare is to build a pc for the same price as a PS4 then compare, all that matters to me is that watch dogs will perform and look significantly better on a PS4 than on my current PS3

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    • Harvey P. Cheesewinkle

      July 15, 2013 at 17:21

      Pointless argument as consoles have direct to metal coding and PC’s have less lower level access to the hardware due to the overwhelming variety of hardware that can be in a PC.

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  15. StevenGad

    July 15, 2013 at 17:23

    Surprise, surprise, lasygamer posts another nonsensical “PC is masterace, lol we dont know shit” article. Really? the PC version looks better no shit, its a launch PS4 title launch titles always look mediocre.

    I wonder ho long its going to take for PC to catch up and display the level of graphics that the Dark Sorcerer tech demo showed off, now that is next get. Watch Dogs looks like a slightly upgraded current gen game (even the PC ver) but true next gen it is not.

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    • Rags

      July 16, 2013 at 10:15

      Unreal Samaritan Demo. Oh, but that was from 2011… 🙂

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  16. Watchdoggie

    July 16, 2013 at 08:12

    I thought the PS4 version looked crisper. Weird!

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    • Rags

      July 16, 2013 at 09:54

      Not weird. The PS4 could not produce as much rain and particle effects. 😛

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  17. Hugo Stiglitz

    August 4, 2013 at 23:51

    Honestly, I don’t get what the big deal is here, and honestly I prefered what I saw on the PS4 version. The draw distance to me looked better, things in the distance seemed much clearer.

    Maybe it’s because PS4 has less depth of field, which I like. I don’t like anything that’s going to make things blurry in the distance. I only like DoF on objects that are very close while focusing on something in the distance, not the other way around.

    Plus, ubisoft has always been pretty bad about optimizing games for consoles and PCs. I wouldn’t expect a launch title from them to come even close to what a console can do, and it’s no surprise that it doesn’t in this case.

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  18. TEST SUBJECT

    August 29, 2013 at 05:06

    I understand that the PC is better graphically but what posses me off is that during the PS4 reveal they showed us PC footage and up until recently we thought that what we were getting was what we’ve been shown for a year. It still gonna look great on the PS4 but I feel like it was false advertising in some way. At the very least they should have had text at the bottom of the trailer stating what graphics cards it was running on.

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  19. K sai DINESH

    September 22, 2013 at 12:19

    it’s fack difference …………u ps4

    in pc only the graphic carp price is 1000$
    in ps4 total cast is 350$ see the varition
    best gaming platfrom is pc
    friends 1 st u have to see the verition & differenc & quality then u have to buy …

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