r/PS4 • u/cristi1990an cristi1990anRO • Sep 01 '18

[Video] [Video] BioWare Makes Fun of Marvel's Spider-Man's "PuddleGate" Controversy

https://youtu.be/yQph-_imtDY
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u/established82 Sep 02 '18

Seriously though, developers should be required to showcase games on CURRENT console systems. They should NOT be allowed to showcase them on their $??,000 developer PC's.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '18

When these games are shown the code and demo are probably held together with gum and duck tape. They have to show these alpha demos on their beefy PC’s because the game just isn’t there yet to run reliably on the target hardware.

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u/established82 Sep 02 '18

If it was held together with gum and duct tape it wouldn't look so polished. I'm not buying that excuse. They do it because it doesn't look as good.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '18

Look at cyberpunk 2077. The demo they released earlier has to run on a 1080ti just to run. The PS4 or Xbox one don’t have anything near that and the game is slated to come out on them. Think of it as efficiency. In the alpha stage these games run inefficiently, but as time goes on they pour more time into the code and the game uses resources (cpu/gpu/Ram) more efficiently. So while cyberpunk May take a 1080ti to run right now; through refining that code and making it more efficient, it can be made to run on current gen consoles.