A Way Out Developer: "[The PS4] is Not as Strong as You Think"

"You want the honest truth? This machine is not as strong as you think," Fares said in an interview with Engadget. "This is like a five-year-old PC. If consoles were as powerful as PCs are today, you would see all different games. Most of the work developers put out there is to make them work on consoles."

Fares' interview goes in-depth about the process behind A Way Out's development, but it's clear that Fares is very passionate about his upcoming game. Fares and the team are even employing expensive technology like mo-cap, but Fares' comments about the PS4 were spurred by how the studio can only push the hardware for their game so far.

At the same time, what Fares says isn't hyperbolic. The PlayStation 4 is practically five years old, or will be in 2018 at least. This doesn't necessarily mean A Way Out is limited by its hardware, but the interview makes it pretty clear that Fares is hungry to do even bigger things in the future.

"I believe you can make a big, AAA, big-budget title with innovative, different stuff," says Fares. "You just have to have the right person who believes in something."

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I mean no shit?

>Fares is very passionate about his upcoming game.

I mean what can you say, he's a passionate guy.

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We had this drama six months ago back when the actual interview happened. Regardless, he's right obviously.

FUCK THE PS4

>Bloodbourne
>Nioh
>Gravity Rush 2
>Yakuza
>Last Guardian
>Persona 5
>Horizon Zero dawn
>Everybody's Golf
>Let it Die
>Dangaronpa
>Unchartered
>Last of us 2
>God of war
>Death Stranding
>Monster hunter
>Spiderman
>Detroit Become Human
>Ghost of Tsushima
>Shadow of Colossus

what did sony mean by this?

That FUCK OSCARS was staged. Both wanted to be in the news to bump the interest in that shit show

>Nioh

But this is a PC game

>"This is like a five-year-old PC. If consoles were as powerful as PCs are today, you would see all different games. Most of the work developers put out there is to make them work on consoles."
This is absolute bullshit. When the PS4 released it was on par with high end PCs and where are all those "all different" games released back then? Having a more powerful console only means less optimization and lazy devs just cranking up graphics in order to market their generic crap. Also, no one is stopping devs to develop their games on PC using all of its power but we all know why they don't do that already.

>man states obvious
maybe let consoles be upgradable, but you won't because devs like making things for stable platforms built out of the same things so they know it will work. and they still fuck it up, looking at you bethesda with your crashes every 2 minutes.

if you want more people with good rigs solve the fucking bitcoin mining making GPUs stupid expensive problem, no one has 2/3 grand spare for a rig these days, and anything less is on par with ps4 anyway.

This frenchman is pretty based

He's making your typical movie game but with the split screen co-op gimmick, what the fuck does he care about being "innovative"?

Nice mascot you found there fedorafag. This won't change the absolute superiority of the PS4 though "OOuhh yeaah"

Absolute mad man. He's never going to work with Sony.

>he thinks its a profitable to market to 2000+$ gaming pc rigs
>he thinks this isnt how the fucking industry is as popular and wealthy

we've seen what devs do with "more power" jack up the fucking resolution to 4k and use the same shitty 720p assets that were on the fucking 360 version of the game that came out 10 years ago

fuck off pretending like better hardware means better games, usually means fucking worse games because the devs dont know how to effectively use the performance, hence why all early gen games are shit, then you get something like MGS3 that just looks beyond capability of the hardware its running on

What a tool.
"Waaahhh. Give me more power! I want to make the blandest boringest realistic looking game ever!"
He's the equivalent of some lazy asshole shooting a movie on video.

>This doesn't necessarily mean A Way Out is limited by its hardware
>the studio can only push the hardware for their game so far
Nice damage control

yup

If he says this about PS4, imagine how much worse the Switch is. I mean 4gb of RAM and a last gen ARM tegra must be a nightware to work with if you come from PS4 or PC.

>on par with high end PCs
Include me in the screencap, I'm dying here.

So were are those pc exclusive games super impressive? I only see rts shit with shit graphics.

no shit its a 3 year old console

You can't fix bitcoin mining. Bitcoin was created by an artificial intelligence

>The PlayStation 4 is practically five years old, or will be in 2018 at least.

It's Five Years Old for developers, article writer.

It's a game which has been ported to PC, but only has a player base of around 5 compared to thousands on PS4

who cares the best games that came out this year run on toasters, switches, and the PS3.

>DEFLECTING INTENSIFIES

They're all shit console shitter.

This man has the potential to become a western prime time Kojima, you know when he was making video games and not interactive movies. Without the extra pretentiousness too.

>Without the extra pretentiousness too.
this is what makes Kojima good tho

>This five year old computer is five years out of date

I remember this article, too.

XBox One is just as terrible if not worse

No. Kojima has unfortunately gone the same path as David Lynch, as in he's so far up his own ass it's negatively impacting his work.

>Nioh
PC
>Persona 5
PS3 and PC
>Danganronpa
All on PC
>MonHun
PC
>God of War
>TLoU2
>Death Stranding
>Spider Man
>Ghost
None of these have a release date
>Detroit
Not even a game
>Shadow of the Colossus
>bragging about PS2 games

Playing MH World on the normal PS4 is a pain. Ugly muddy screen.

>Monster Hunter
You can really tell that Sony fans are always primed to throw everything and the kitchen sink at naysayers.
They're willing to line up multiplats that they've been marketed to as being Sony games, movie games, games without release dates (While also parading out TLG, the PS3 system seller), games without any known gameplay and even games that piss all over the notion of having good gameplay in the defense of their corporate overlords.

>Try to make game that has two entirely separate instances of gameplay going on at the same time in a realistic artstyle
>Surprised when it’s hard to run on consoles
I’m no game dev genius by any means but i could have told him that a long time ago.

who cares?

pc gaming is dying,noneone wants to play where they watch porn

I fucking hate consolewar threads. how much of a nigger loser do you have to be to care what systems people play their games on. it's insane

He's so brazen.

>Most of the work developers put out there is to make them work on consoles

Because they're retarded. They start out by making games looking fucking unreal and running to 30 cpu cores and 8000$ SLI graphic cards and then expect them to run decently on shitty children toy consoles.

Limit the fucking scale, good games don't necessarily need good graphics.

NierA, Yakuza 0, Bloodborne, Persona 5, Xenoblade, Breath of the wild and many more games this gen proved that graphics can eat shit.

It's all about good fun gameplay, interesting worlds, good art direction and interesting fun story lines.

>when the PS4 released it was on par with high end PCs

>port game a year later with no marketing

not sure what you expected

this 2bh i could understand slamming someone for shit taste in individual games but consoles are basically all the same with rare exception and even most PCs are basically as powerful as most consoles (not everyone has a ridiculous gaming rig and doesn't mind not playing at 4k 144fps)

Marketing or not, it would still have a fraction of the PS4 community and you know it

But I can also watch porn on my PS4? And my Vita, and PS3.
Hell, I read erotica on my wii.

this desu

>trusting a dev who is in bed with EA

KEK!

>Most of the work developers put out there is to make them work on consoles
The true hallmark of a retarded dev.

>the developer of this 2008 looking game complaining about the power of the ps4

PS5 launches in fall 2019.

Sonyboys say graphics don't matter when they get compared to pc.

But when its compared to the switch graphics DO matter. Fucking double standards

Which A Way would you Out?

>Most of the work goes into making them work on consoles
Or just develop with consoles in mind you retards?
I somewhat get what they're saying, but I'm just so tired of devs complaining about consoles and wanting everyone to buy a $3000 PC so they can dump their unoptimized port

He was merely pretending, you say?

Shit would look the same because devs can't be assed to optimize. No shit the ps4 is outdated, though. It was weaker than my 4-year old laptop.

Also that'll be $60 plus tip and don't forget to pre-order the DLC

Name a game that pushed the medium forward because of the increase in processing power after the 6th gen. The only thing that's gotten better are graphics and the games we play now could all probably be achieved on the original fucking Xbox and maybe even PS2.

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Minecraft

>Sup Forums is suddenly in love with this mediocre movie director turned game designer

Reminder he directed this movie:
youtube.com/watch?v=wVSOMAraWx0

XD

While aren't powerful, he IS making another 2017 Blak Afro Womyn™ meme game, so his opinion can instantly be discarded as trash.

It used to be jokes but people are actually getting pretty butthurt now a days.

I already knew the PS4 was a POS so this means its liquid dooky, the PS3 at least had CELL PROCESSING, not that it did anything with it but the suits and spin doctors could use it to spice their buzzwords salads.

>on par with high end pc

The absolute disgusting state of consoletoddler
A fucking radeon 7970 from 2012 demolish the ps4.

That looks like a fun action kino, what's the problem?

>it has to run well on a netbook tier CPU that was already shit as soon as the console was released otherwise that means it's unoptimised

That's as dumb as people who refuse to play a game just because it has big boobie sluts in it.

If you think this is bad you are probably underaged

What was his name again?

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Greg Sestero

>criticize the specs of the PS4
>when your game looks like it belongs on the PS2

sonygros SEETHING

>his upcoming game
>game
He literally called it a cinematic experience.

top lel

no ps2 game looks that good
what a meme comparison

>this is bad

This game's going to sell just because this C-Rate Tommy Wiseau motherfucker can't shut up for five seconds.

Lets see how well his game sells without console, go make a pc exclusive. Its gonna flop cos pc players dont pay for their games.

At the same time he still has to make sure the game runs on standard xbone which is also weaker, the choice of just singling out the ps4 really activates my almonds.
Actually isn't this guy the same one that said something like you need powerful hardware to be innovative while at the same time all the innovative stuff is coming out on the switch?

I would have thought PUBG would have killed this meme by now

pubg also won zero awards

>on par with high end PCs

>Origin
No beans it would flop

>how the studio can only push the hardware for their game so far

>Look this guy up
>See this
>Some generic co op third person shooter that could easily be PS3 game
>Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
>That's it

This a joke?
Even this guy pushed the hardware better.

tldr: a five year old machine runs like a five year old machine

No one's seething, he's absolutely right. Problem is, he doesn't exactly have a leg to stand on when his own game looks like dogshit. You can't complain about the shitty specs of a console when you're not even close to actually maxing out its full potential and needing higher specs.

It was hyperbole, lad. In truth it looks like a mid-gen PS3 game. The Last of Us looks better and that came out in 2013 running on a system that had fucking 256MB RAM and 256MB VRAM.

Josef Stalin

>When the PS4 released it was on par with high end PCs
The whole point of consoles is to provide commodity level computing power at consumer level prices.
Who fucking cares anyway. Mid level PC power from 5 years ago is still enough to run most new titles and probably will be for a while the way GPU prices are going. Not like increased graphics was delivering jack shit in terms of gameplay or value anyway.

FUCK THE BOLSHEVIKS

you are nonwhite?>

I'm not sure what this list of games has to do with the point made by the article. All of those games would be better if the ps4 wasn't fucking old and outdated.

>This machine is not as strong as you think
??? isn't the point of consoles to be a cheap gaming machine that for the average consumer to play games on? No shit it ain't that strong. It doesn't even fucking matter because every game is developed around their strengths.

>le passionate man meme

> on par with high end pcs
Its was outperformed by an i3 + 750ti

And yet, all the best video GAMES have been on consoles.
Makes you think.

God, I fucking love this guy.

Best arab man ever