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[Lord Error]

what a big fuck up

did reviewers review with the patch

MP was 1080p all along. Those who were playing MP footage could tell the difference beyond just "well I think it's a bit.. more clear, maybe?"

You could basically tell who sounded confident about this, and it was all probably coming from who played MP or SP.

 

[Steve McQueen]

Rather funny actually. All those replys and it was 720P to begin with. Mind blown.

 

[K' Dash]

Ok, but why did XBO have a smoother frame rate at 720p? Bizarre.

Because it doesn't, it is a placebo effect, they tought the game being 1080p in PS4 was bound to have perfomance problems.

That's it.

 

[Guymelef]

Hah, I need to watch that IGN video review again.

"As you can see, the PS4 is a bit more crisp" (shows single player)

.

 

[Le-mo]

Not enough facepalm for this hahahaha.

 

[Sendou]

So how long will we hear people asking from devs to patch in 60FPS or 1080p? I'm totally seeing that this will be a thing.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

WTF... cant believe IW... its such a HUGE mistake, that seems intentional!!

 

[MADGAME]

There must be an appropriate Banderas .gif for this situation

 

[CartridgeBlower]

They are still blind precisely because they COULDN'T tell the difference between the supposed 1080p and the actual 720p on PS4. They deserve all of that.

Exactly. If anything this makes reviewers look even more clueless.

 

[Metalmurphy]

Ok, but why did XBO have a smoother frame rate at 720p? Bizarre.

It did not have a smoother framerate. PS4 version has issues (had?) in some areas that made the framerate drop. It's not like one runs at 50 and the other at 60.

OMG! ALL THE PEOPLE THAT JUMPED STRAIGHT AWAY AT POLYGON'S NECK!

This is absolutely amazing! I'm laughing out loud!

And rightfully so:

"It's possible that the PS4 version looked somewhat sharper, but that may have just been my imagination"

 

[Papercuts]

What the fuck are they doing with this game?

 

[GameSeeker]

Of course Quaz was right.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=714937

Never doubt the power of DetectiveGAF! Thank you Quaz51 for your work! Without him the truth would have remained hidden for much longer.

At least now we have the truth. Now if only we could get EVERY single review site to re-review the games that have Day 1 patches (CoD: Ghosts, Knack, etc.)

 

[dallow_bg]

Hmm, seems all the people calling others out for not being able to tell the difference between the two versions need their eyes checked.

Well, that was said under the assumption one was 1080p and the other 720p.
It's Activision who should apologize now.

 

[Kuro]

Doesn't this kind of confirm the game is a straight port of the Xbox One version?

 

[Salex_]

The streak of no 720p continues.

 

[Kacho]

Hah, I need to watch that IGN video review again.

"As you can see, the PS4 is a bit more crisp" (shows single player)

/dead

 

[Terbinator]

None of these in here know who she is.

 

[foxbeldin]

Is this why Gies can't tell the difference between 720 and 1080p?

 

[SwiftDeath]

I'm starting to think that Ghosts should just be sweeped under the rug and never be talked about again anywhere by anyone

Spoiler

Ghosts

Redacted

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

 

[GeoramA]

Classic launch drama

 

[Wereroku]

Yet the IGN footage shows 720p video from PS4.

Yeah they recorded the videos when they got the ps4's inhouse with the broken version of the game.

 

[Curufinwe]

"There was a configuration issue in the retail version on single-player mode only."

So did reviewers use the "retail version" or prerelease code?

We don't know.

People want to start serving crow, but who to?

 

[FourMyle]

lol....

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

This stuff is absolutely nuts. And on top of that an exclusive patch reveal? What the heck?

Still playing the game because I'm addicted to the online play, but this is getting ridiculous.

 

[Kintaro]

Awwwww shit!

Aww... will rehost popcorn. =(

 

[Hidden One]

And this is why I refuse to ever buy another COD.

 

[a916]

So what are all these reviews who thought the PS4 game looked sharper because of the resolution jump?

(I hope they had the latest patch, otherwise they got some explaining to do...)

 

[frayne182]

Most entertaining launch I can remember honestly. I sure as hell don't remember the 360/PS3/Wii launch being this hilarious.

to be fair those consoles didn't have the social media we have now. I can't imagine going through the SNES/Genesis days with all this social media.

 

[spookyfish]

What in god's fuck Infinity Ward!?

Pretty much this.

 

[PSGames]

Oh god, so that makes a lot of reviews kind of hilarious now.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh boy.

Wow. It really brings to question the credibility of all these sites that stated the PS4 version was much sharper when they were both 720p at the time. Crazy.

 

[FairXchange]

Oh shit, Polygon redeemed? Also, did they not test multiplayer, the only damn mode that matters in a COD game?

 

[Forsaken82]

Rather have 60fps patch.

EDIT: Online-only console generation. If you aren't online, you are fucked.

It has been this way since the inlcusion of day 1 patches... You just haven't been paying close attention during the 360/PS3 era.

 

[Donthizz#]

so at 720p PS4 version looked better than the XB1 version?

 

[JetSetRadio]

360p patch

This is insane.

 

[Pop]

Whaaaaa

haha

 

[Neuromancer]

This is amazing.

I guess I owe Arthur Gies, Polygon and indeed all of games journalism an apology.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Stupid question, but can a patch really change the resolution like that?

Is this a first for resolution bumping on consoles?

 

[T.O.P]

so no chance to download the patch -> stucked at 720p

the fuck were IW thinking?

 

[Lostconfused]

So this clearly proves that the Xbone has better up scaling.

so no chance to download the patch -> stucked at 720p

the fuck were IW thinking?

That no one would buy call of duty if they weren't planning to play it online in the first place.

 

[Nato]

How much do you think Microsoft paid IW to have them "accidentally" send out 720p code to reviewers?

 

[Durante]

Well, that explains things.

Just wondering... for the people that lambasted the reviewers saying they should get their eyes checked cause they couldn't tell the difference between the Xbone and PS4 version : are you going to eat some crow?

No, because I said this:

Either the game is not rendering at 1080p on PS4 and 720p on XB1 or all these game journalists should go to an optometrist.

Always hedge your bets against unexpected insanity

 

[hal9001]

Nvm.

 

[sajj316]

What the heck ..

Well, it is launch of a new console. Welcome to next gen fellas!

 

[Razgreez]

None of these in here know who she is.

"Jinx... stands for Jinx. Duh!"

OT, this situation is just... no words

 

[RaikuHebi]

So what are all these reviews who thought the PS4 game looked sharper because of the resolution jump?

(I hope they had the latest patch, otherwise they got some explaining to do...)

The 50% GPU advantage ain't just used for the resolution.

 

[oVerde]

 

[BloodMoney]

IW: "Hey bro's, lets have all the review copies for both systems run at 720p so that there is dat balance... after the reviews come out we can patch in 1080p for the PS4 and just say it was a configuration issue"
MS: "No doubt yo!"

 

[keit4]

Polygon redeemed.

 

[SolsticeZero]

I have no idea what's going on with this game anymore.