This whole 30FPS BS

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Daston

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Thursday 30th October 2014
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For those of you not away of this, recently Microsoft and Sony have both decided to put pressure on developers to cap their games to 30fps. From what I understand the PS4 is capable of 60fps @ 1080p and the XboxOne is only capable of 30fps @ 1080p and they are both not happy that PC ports are running above 60fps.

So far the guys making Uncharted 4 have said they will not cap the game and plan to have it running at 60fps on the PS4. Obviously a lot of PC developers have said they will also carry on as they wish. However ubisoft have stepped in to say the next Assassins Creed game will be capped on all platforms to 30fps as apparently 30fps is the most realistic to the human eye (wtf).

With both Nvida and AMD working on 8k graphics cards as well as 4k monitors capable of running over 60fps isn't this all just a load of sour grapes?

I can't see the graphics card companies being too happy about all this as they obviously make money by selling better and better graphic cards and one way to make a demand is to have high load games running at fast frames. If developers take this away then why would Nvidia or AMD want to give Sony & MS graphic cards for the next consoles?

So whats your thoughs?