Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With Titanfall

An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this week, Respawn Entertainment launched Titanfall, a futuristic first-person shooter with mechs that has been held up as the poster child for the Xbox One. The Digital Foundry blog took the opportunity to compare how the game plays on the Xbox One to its performance on a well-appointed PC. Naturally, the PC version outperforms, but the compromises are bigger than you'd expect for a newly-released console. For example, it runs at an odd resolution (1408x792), the frame rate 'clearly isn't anywhere near locked' to 60fps, and there's some unavoidable screen tear. Reviews for the game are generally positive — RPS says most of the individual systems in Titanfall are fun, but the forced multiplayer interaction is offputting. Giant Bomb puts it more succinctly: 'Titanfall is a very specific game built for a specific type of person.' Side note: the game has a 48GB install footprint on PCs, owing largely to 35GB of uncompressed audio."

Re: 35 GB of uncompressed audio?

[Anonymous Coward]

It was so that lower spec PCs can run it.

Re:35 GB of uncompressed audio?

[Anonymous Coward]

Will someone more aware of the rationale behind this tell me that this is not as retarded as it sounds?

"Respawn Entertainment, the game's developer, claims the uncompressed audio was included for the benefit of slower PCs. "A two-core machine would dedicate a huge chunk of one core to just decompressing audio," says Richard Baker, Respawn's Lead Engineer. "We couldn't dedicate those resources to audio." The Xbox One decodes audio in hardware, so it has no such limitation."

Good thing disk I/O doesn't take any processing power!

Re: Glorious PC Master Race

[Paradise Pete]

A keyboard-mouse player will always be able to defeat a joystick player easily.

Not if they're both sitting on the couch.

Re: Glorious PC Master Race

[jones_supa]

To make it impossible for him to play in full capacity so the joystick player gets an advantage.

Hahaa...

Re:Glorious PC Master Race

[Anonymous Coward]

This was modded "insightful"? Not funny or flamebait? Haha oh wow.

Re: Glorious PC Master Race

[PopeRatzo]

I recently played a few hours of Mario Kart 64 (yep, dusted of the old N64) on a couch with some friends and by the end of it, my lower back was killing me. I never get this when I spend 4 hours playing Civ IV.

Absolutely. If you look at the posture of someone playing a console game, you will see an arched back, pressure on the lumbar, neck pulled back, often feet not flat on the floor.

As you can see from this photo of me playing WoW, PC gaming provides a much more healthy posture:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xAf6... [blogspot.com]