dat bait title

Of course a stable frame rate is better than an unstable one, but solid 60fps is better than 30fps.

Unity isn't bad because they don't know the hardware, it's bad because Ubi Montreal didn't give enough of a shit to QA and fix the mistakes. Blackflag was on XBO/PS4 and turned out fine.

We aren't going to get optimization like we did with the past generations; before, they used custom chipsets that had to be learned (nearly) from scratch. The Xbone and PS4 are mid-tier computers using a modified AMD mobile gpu and CPU. "Modified" would normally make a difference, but AMD's platform since 2013 was to integrate and evolve their technology in such a way that it is easy to interface and more highly-compatible than Nvidia/Intel.

Steady 30fps is most definitely better than a 40-60 range; but this isn't because of optimization issues (not to say it isn't a reason), most developers would rather have high-poly, higher quality textures, and sub1080p than 60fps.

do you people cry if you lose a strand of hair throughout the day

Quote from: Verbatim on January 15, 2015, 06:58:13 PM

do you people cry if you lose a strand of hair throughout the day

how excited do you get when you find a single penny on the road

is that towards me or

But 60 is hot

Quote from: Prime Meridia on January 15, 2015, 06:22:13 PM

Blackflag was on XBO/PS4 and turned out fine.

Black Flag was just a prettied up port of a game designed for 7th gen though.

And the port turned out better than a product that was designed for the console. It's not like porting means that it doesn't use the hardware either, a ported game has to be made to run on the console. "We don't know how to use it" isn't an argument because we've clearly seen that they can do it, even if it didn't have 4K cutscenes or whatever.

This isn't "we can't optimize", it's "we didn't bother to fix these problems or scale back because you'll buy it anyway."

Ubisoft has NEVER given a damn about optimization. Hell, they said in an interview that optimizing PC games is stupid and to just buy new hardware (instead of expecting them to deliver a polished product.)