Assassin’s Creed Unity PC/PS4 Comparison

11 November 2014

Along with our Lords of the Fallen review, we provided a PC/PS4 comparison article showing screenshots from both platforms in the same exact gameplay moments. Since the article was quite successful, we’re doing the same for today’s hot meal - Assassin’s Creed Unity. All of the screenshots were taken from the prologue; PC comes first (shots taken on i7 2600K/GTX 780 by EzioCroft and reported on Neogaf), PS4 shots taken by our own Rosh always following below.

Here the difference isn’t that pronounced. There’s the usual blur on PlayStation 4, of course, but other than that the console version is quite close.

The difference here is really significant. The entire buildings enjoy the superior ambient occlusion (HBAO+) of the PC version, giving it a far more realistic look.

Once again, the biggest difference is the blur on PlayStation 4, the absence of which makes the boy’s hair look much better on PC.

Our last comparison from gameplay confirms everything we’ve seen so far. Everything from the shadows to chandeliers etc. is much more crisp on PC, but it should also be noted that the PC taking those screenshots is a lot more expensive than a PlayStation 4.

Regardless of the platform, Rosh really liked Assassin’s Creed Unity - you can read exactly why in his review.

Guest

Of course it does, $0N¥ PS Poor can’t handle true next gen games at 1080p 60fps with all the bells and whistles. It’s low end AMD hardware by current standards.
- Guest
  
  8 gb GDDR5! 1.84TFlops performance! Super charged PC!
  - Thad Vanity
    
    5 year old PC more like…..
- demderp
  
  Big surprise, another article swarming with sick microsoft shill waste spreading lies, ignorance, and blind hatred about Playstation. They are a pestilence.
  
  Ignorant, sick, shills screaming blind hatred and lies about a corporation, pieces of plastic, any exclusive games on it, and anyone who likes playing on it. Sad.
  
  Stop spreading fanboy lies, ignorance, trolling, and blind hate. All of your lies and blind hatred only make you look deranged and sick to normal, sane people.,
bigshynepo

I would’ve expected better out of a $600 dollar graphics card…PS4 isn’t as far behind as I thought it’d be.
- Guest
  
  Except it runs it at 50-60fps as opposed to 20 fps.
- Guest
  
  Have fun playing it at 20fps on the PS Poor then.
  - Guest
    
    Guess that’s why they call it the Pauperstation.
    - Counterproductive
      
      You actually use the word pauper? Who are you? Charles Dickens?
      - demderp
        
        Just another deranged microsoft shill spreading lies and blind hatred. Like all of them do.
    - demderp
      
      Big surprise, another article swarming with sick microsoft shill waste spreading lies, ignorance, and blind hatred about Playstation. They are a pestilence.
      
      Ignorant, sick, shills screaming blind hatred and lies about a corporation, pieces of plastic, any exclusive games on it, and anyone who likes playing on it. Sad.
      
      Stop spreading fanboy lies, ignorance, trolling, and blind hate. All of your lies and blind hatred only make you look deranged and sick to normal, sane people.,m
    - Slipknot8312
      
      Go kill yourself xboner, or even worse PC incestrace
  - andy
    
    Thanks but if we want 20fps gameplay and even at an atrocious 720p, we will get an Xbone (will never happen) and a copy of Dead Rising 3, another exclusive game that couldn’t hit even the Titanfall 792p benchmark lol.
  - bigshynepo
    
    I won’t be wasting my time on this shit game. Go get some sunlight, loser.
  - demderp
    
    Big surprise, another article swarming with sick microsoft shill waste spreading lies, ignorance, and blind hatred about Playstation. They are a pestilence.
    
    Ignorant, sick, shills screaming blind hatred and lies about a corporation, pieces of plastic, any exclusive games on it, and anyone who likes playing on it. Sad.
    
    Stop spreading fanboy lies, ignorance, trolling, and blind hate. All of your lies and blind hatred only make you look deranged and sick to normal, sane people.
  - Slipknot8312
    
    Fuck you Mother, and die
  - johnnyking
    
    hahaha poor i think Some of us are either not hardcore gamers or not willing to spend too much money on gaming. So you call people who don’t have a hardcore gaming pc is poor? You need to check your priority man
- WellWisher
  
  You know you can get slightly better performance from a $329 GPU now, right?
  - bigshynepo
    
    I’m just referencing what they quoted in the article. The GTX 780 cards aren’t commonly priced below $400 and sit much closer to the $500+ dollar price point for a new good one.
Raoh shiro

This comparison makes the PC and PS4 version look like 4k VS 1080p!
Dangerousjo 1985

Lol the PC with all it’s power bearly looks better then the xb1 and ps4 ,I’ll stick to my xb1.
demderp

Big surprise, another article swarming with sick microsoft shill waste spreading lies, ignorance, and blind hatred about Playstation. They are a pestilence.

Ignorant, sick, shills screaming blind hatred and lies about a corporation, pieces of plastic, any exclusive games on it, and anyone who likes playing on it. Sad.

Stop spreading fanboy lies, ignorance, trolling, and blind hate. All of your lies and blind hatred only make you look deranged and sick to normal, sane people.
Thad Vanity

Whoever took those PC screenshots……Poor Effort
PachterStation

The French up to their old tricks again. Saying that, Ubisoft are renowned for this. The Crew looks like a last gen game and we all know what happened to Watch Dogs. Next, The Division will take a graphics dip. Have been quite impressed with The Division, but not so much with The Crew. A tired genre with dated graphics, I’ll probably wait until it’s £20. Far Cry 4 on the Xbox One and PS4 looks like an Xbox 360 and PS3 port. It’s about time we started seeing a graphical difference between last gen and this gen. Ubisoft need to get this graphics glitch out of its system.
Spencer

You call this significant? Slightly crisper shadows and better looking AO in one scene?

Speaking of that scene, lighting doesn’t look diffused like that in real life unless it’s overcast that day. The Ps4 version looks much more realistic if the scene is depicting sun beating down on the building.
- http://www.facebook.com/jdwohlever GunMod
  
  I hate to admit it, as I have a $4000 self built PC here,
  but the PS4 versions graphics do look more realistic.
  Sure the PC version has higher detail, but if you look at say the hair, that higher detail only shows the flaws in the detail, like jaggies.
  The slight blurring of the PS4/XB versions actually make it look more close to realism.
  I love my PC, but know when to say the truth, and if going by those shots as the truth, then the price difference in what a $4000 machine can do and a $600 console can produce, the difference is not worth the money and sometimes,
  like in those shots, the “worse” looking detail actually looks more “real”.
  Add to that the PC version is a port (and by what I have been reading on Steam, not a well done port) and a port is never going to run as well as a true native build.
  If the framerate on the PC version is better than the console versions, then I of course would choose the PC version, but to me anything over say 40 to 45 fps is not needed in a game like this. As long as the console can chug out at least 30 frames per second (at all times) then I would say the console version wins in the long run. But, if the fps drops below 30 on the console and doesn’t on a high-end PC then the PC would win.
  At this point in the technology, graphic fidelity isn’t as important as smoothness and price as it used to be.
  - Spencer
    
    Thank you for your logic and well thought out response. I 100% agree with everything you said
Jay

Im done with ubisoft. the ps4 is an excellent system thats very capable of producing AAA content. the pc will always be better than consoles if you have the money to throw at your rig. but im a console guy and ubisoft is just dropping the ball on all platforms. just lie after lie. once you see what rockstar has been able to do with these new systems, then you start to understand that its about the talent of the devs and less about what the systems are capable of. even though the pc version looks slightly better, we all know it could have look waaay better. Ive seen what pc’s can do and AC unity is at the bottom of the barrel. I fear what downgrades the division will take. I guess ill wait for the next rayman because thats the last game I actually enjoyed by Ubisoft.
Stereotypical_White_Fella

looks like shit on PS4

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Assassin’s Creed Unity PC/PS4 Comparison

Assassin’s Creed Unity PC/PS4 Comparison

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