Holy s***, the PS4 graphics look unreal

[muon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Q3l0YrbUg

Sorry if it's been posted, but that fluidity hnnnnnggggg.

[MysteryLemon]

It looks like a PC. Which is essentially what it is.

[Dave^]

The end of the vid has the PS3 Logo...

[Steve Evil]

It's out on both, but is coming to PS4 first, I can't imagine they'd be showcasing it on lesser hardware.

[clived]

Surely it would be much more remarkable if the graphics looked real, rather than unreal

[probedb]

It's likely less than current top end PC hardware...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6770/sony-announces-...

[130R]

If it is somewhere between a 7850 and a 7870 as that article suggests then that is very decent, it's impossible to put an absolute top end gaming PC in a console and nobody would expect that.

[vonuber]

That will be running on a pc and not ps4 at this stage.
Be wary of what is shown: cf Colonial Marines.

[Dave^]

clived said:

Surely it would be much more remarkable if the graphics looked real, rather than unreal

[Robatr0n]

That game looks awesome!

So I've been trying to find out some more info about the game and a couple of review sites are claiming that Watch Dogs was not run on a PS4 for their demo but instead a PC running similar hardware to what the PS4 will have.

A little cheeky of Sony if that is true.

[Robatr0n]

vonuber said:

That will be running on a pc and not ps4 at this stage.
Be wary of what is shown: cf Colonial Marines.

Should probably have read this before replying!

[muon]

Yeah def not ps3, but wouldn't surprise me if it was hardware that would give the same performance/output as a ps4.

I think it would be true to how it would appear on ps4 though.

[him_over_there]

Robatr0n said:

That game looks awesome!

So I've been trying to find out some more info about the game and a couple of review sites are claiming that Watch Dogs was not run on a PS4 for their demo but instead a PC running similar hardware to what the PS4 will have.

A little cheeky of Sony if that is true.

When you see demos of games at conferences like E3, even if the presenters are holding PS3 / Xbox pads, most are actually running on PCs.

[Oakey]

Ubisoft already said that was running on PC;;

http://www.gamepur.com/news/10450-new-watch-dogs-d...

[Hoofy]

It certainly looks better than my PC. (Still playing BF3 in 640x480.)

As for the game, it looks a bit "take 3 of these there", "find me 1 of those", "kill 2 of them", "find 8 of those and take them over there", "make 3 of these and turn them into 2 of those then take them there" even if you can explore everywhere.

[snuffy]

MysteryLemon said:

It looks like a PC. Which is essentially what it is.

Indeed it does.

The start looks very slick, superb in fact. But then when matey is running down the alley at looks fairly normal PC graphics to me.

I reckon the start of the game is a "cut scene" and then when it does into game play it's not so good.

[MocMocaMoc]

Out of interest, what would a comparable PC spec be?

If I've got an i7 2600, with 16gig ram and a spare slot for a GPU, which graphics card should I be looking at?

Is an i7 2600 enough to call a 'top spec'?!

[funkyrobot]

Looks very similar to Assassin's Creed (in terms of the style of game and the hud items).

[TheEnd]

MocMocaMoc said:

Out of interest, what would a comparable PC spec be?

If I've got an i7 2600, with 16gig ram and a spare slot for a GPU, which graphics card should I be looking at?

Is an i7 2600 enough to call a 'top spec'?!

It's top tier, but last generation. Still used a lot and it can handle most games on ultra settings.
"Handle" is a funny one though, ie, with a decent graphics card, you'd probably be able to run anything over 30fps, and usually towards to 60fps general sweetspot.

Almost all processors get overclocked for gaming these days, it isn't like years ago where only the uber-nerds would do it, you can get little programs that will automatically boost the speed at the click of a button.

For a graphics card, I'd say the best value out there at the moment is a used Nvidia GTX580, you could pick one up for about £150-170.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.ht...

Sitting there at 3rd in the list. The current daddy is the GTX690, but that is essentially 2 GTX680s stuck together, doubling the price and it only really starts to show the benefits in multiple monitors and resolutions bigger than 1080p

You can even see the 690 is lagging behind the 680 in that comparison, but there isn't any one simple test to show what is the best out there.

An i7 with a simple overclock, and a GTX580 would mean you could run pretty much anything about today on high or ultra settings without problems.

[rhinochopig]

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You forgot to mention NVIDIA titan - essentially a cut down 3k supercomputer on a graphics card. Thousand dollars per card mind.