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Home News The Witness Runs Faster On PS4 Than PC, According To Game Creator

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The Witness Runs Faster On PS4 Than PC, According To Game Creator

Posted on Tuesday, March 12 @ 12:30:00 Eastern by Alex_Osborn


Jonathan Blow made a surprising appearance at Sony's PlayStation 4 reveal last month, announcing a brand-new title called The Witness. As far as we know, this new first-person puzzle title will be coming to both the PS4 and PC, and according to Blow, “the equivalent game will run faster” on the PlayStation 4.

Speaking with Edge, the mind behind Braid explained: 

For The Witness we’re mostly interested in the base machine and how fast it is – the fact it has faster RAM than a PC, which really helps in shuttling graphics resources around, and since it’s not running a heavyweight operating system like Windows that gets in the way of your graphics.

Rendering stuff through Windows has an impact on performance. Since a console is just about games, that doesn’t happen, and the equivalent game will run faster. And if you can target to specific hardware you can make it run faster, too.

Are PC gamers soon going to have to get used to settling for an inferior product? Is the PlayStation 4's RAM really going to make that much of a difference in the long term? Sound off with your thoughts in the comments below.
Related Games:   The Witness
Tags:   PS4, PC, next-gen


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  • xavier_2000_ie
    xavier_2000_ie
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
    how can he post that it will be faster than my pc without actually knowing what specs my pc have?
    0 3
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
    I've read a lot of these articles lately and they are usually later qualified by saying that the PCs they are referring to are the average ones you can go get at Best Buy or wherever with older, crappy graphics cards and not true "gaming" PCs. The memory clock in my GPU right now is over 6200 MHz, I'll be shocked if the memory clock of the PS4 is even a third of that. Especially with SLI & Crossfire, for anyone to claim a console will outperform all PCs is just ridiculous.
    0 1
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 1:44 pm
    More like impossible.
    0 0
  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 12:44 pm
    That's a big blow to the PC gamers, though I will probably get the game (if I ever do) for PC anyway.
    0 0
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 12:46 pm
    Even if this bullshit was true, do you really think people won't find a way to make the game run faster on a PC?
    0 4
  • uptown710
    uptown710
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 12:57 pm
    I think he means a PC of compareable specs. We all know it wouldn't be far fetched to just create a monster rig to blast away the P4 in terms of performance.

    But he has a point. Having to have all that power with minimal resources eating at it in the background must be quite a power boost. And as a gamer, the more excited the devs are, the more excited I am.
    0 0
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
    That is true as well, though I do think these developers need to stop saying that the PS4 will outperform PCs and say something like "The PS4 can outperform general PCs". People are gonna get the wrong impressions.
    0 3
  • sli
    sli
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Mar 13th, 2013 at 9:55 pm
    That's their plan.
    0 0
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 12:54 pm
    Like i posted in the other article. Its true the api overhead in windows is higher. But we also have to point out that a lot of developers either just don't know or don't want to spend money actually optimizing the game to run well on a pc.
    0 1
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 12:57 pm
    Also is he working with either pc video card makers with drivers?
    0 2
  • Zpyder
    Zpyder
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Mar 13th, 2013 at 3:40 am
    Exactly, the first thought I had when I read the title of this post is "Well they just haven't spent the time to optimise it properly on the PC then"
    0 0
  • Fieperskaivu
    Fieperskaivu
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 1:36 pm
    Hah I feel that this guy is nearly a Sony employee now =P blasting xbox and then saying the PS4 is better than PC.

    I agree with above though that it's easier to develop a game for a console where millions of people have the same specs than for PC where millions of people have unique specs.
    0 0
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 1:47 pm
    A First-Person Puzzle won't run as fast as a PS4 (so long as the computer is with same specs) holy **** this is so ****ing astounding that... I can't do this... Who gives a FUCK?
    0 2
  • GodofallEnds
    GodofallEnds
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 4:46 pm
    I feel that everyone is taking comments that devs are making too personal, as if these devs are attacking your personal pc spec. When you think to the majority, yeah the ps4 is going to play the witness better than the average persons pc. Every statement these guys make towards an opposing platform is using statistics that involve the majority, which isnt us.
    0 1
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 10:24 pm
    For the love of God, this.
    0 0
  • Nether
    Nether
    Joined: Jul 2007
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 9:50 pm
    Im gonna start off by saying i think he means a PC of comparable price. No high end PC will lose to any console....ever.
    0 0
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Mar 13th, 2013 at 1:03 am
    Supposedly the PS4 is going to have 8 CPUs and a new wave graphics card, so I am inclined to believe its true- for 2 or 3 years at best.
    0 0

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