While most of us are very excited about Assassins Creed Unity and we are organizing an exclusive QnA with the Dev team as well. Earlier this week, Assassin’s Creed Unity producer Vincent Pontbriand revealed that Ubisoft had purposefully downgraded the PlayStation 4 version they made sure it ran at 900p instead of 1080p.
Ubisoft’s thought for this was that the Xbox One can only do 900p/30 frames per second, and Ubisoft didn’t want to make Xbox One users feel inferior. Pontbriand said that they just limited the PS4 version to the Xbox One to “avoid all the debates and stuff”. This is despite the fact that the PS4’s GPU is 50% more powerful than the Xbox One’s, and can easily run games at 1080p. But the exact opposite has happened: Ubisoft’s decision has caused far more debate than if they had just stuck with 1080p for the PlayStation 4 version. Last year’s Assassin’s Creed 4 was upgraded to full HD with a post-launch patch, but Ubisoft has made no such announcement so far for Unity. You can preorder AC Unity Here 🙂
And maybe that’s what Ubisoft intended. People are now talking about Assassin’s Creed Unity more than ever. In fact, nobody really talked about the game before — it was just another Assassin’s Creed game coming out. Now there’s a reason to talk about the game. And the people talking about it (especially PS4 gamers) are really passionate, which is a must for a good PR trick.
And when all this calms down and people start forgetting that it happened, Ubisoft will announce that the PlayStation 4 version of Assassin’s Creed Unity will get a patch to get it to 1080p — just like with the previous Assassin’s Creed game. It’s quite genius, actually, and one of the better PR moves of the year, but we’re not complaining 🙂
All said and done, You can preorder AC Unity Here 🙂
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