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[NX Gamer] Control: Ultimate Edition Console Performance Review (PS5 & Xbox Series X|S)

The agreement heinsenbergfx4 shared with mod of war and wasn't banned for saying it.

Meaning the info is vetted to be accurate.

I don't need to, it's not my information it exists on this forum, you find it.
I looked quite hard and couldnt find anyone saying MS and DF have an agreement to not show anything negative about xbox. Especially when you consider pretty much this entire gen has been negative xbox positive PS.
 

Bo_Hazem

Banned
doesnt look accurate if metal surface is less than 1inch away reflection wouldn’t be a foot apart. Again physics a inch won’t make a reflection go bigger than a inch.

You didn't understand me there. It's inaccurate overall, but the glass reflection is the accurate one distance-wise, I guess.
 

martino

Member
You seem to be under the impression that what’s being talked about is just “sponsored content”, when what’s being talked about are private conversations where MS officials boast about courting DF to be favorable to Xbox.

Keep missing the point.
Have you even seen the proof ?
 

Loxus

Member
He says that the ps5 has the least potent RT. Around a 2070 level and the XsX above.
Only because he's just looking at frame rate.
But if he took the time to understand if the PS5 has more reflection to calculate,
The frame rate would be lower.

The guy literally said the PS5 is doing more reflections,
Obviously the XBSX would have a higher frame rate if it's doing less RT calculations.
 

Thirty7ven

Banned
Have you even seen the proof ?

It was described by the original source, and it has been vetted by mod.

If you doubt the integrity of both, then fair enough. I don’t and have reasons to. People only believing what they want is nothing new either way, since the dawn of day it has been so.
 
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Loxus

Member
I don't know how anyone can see that double reflection and think it looks right.
When two reflective surfaces are an inch away, the double reflection is seen almost on top of the other one, not half a meter away like you can see here.
Maybe it's not a thing in the US but in Europe a lot of windows are double glass windows (two glasses an inch away instead of a simple one). You can try to see your reflection on those and you'll see your double reflection on top.
To me, the PS5 looks to be the more accurate, it may not be exact but at least it's doing more reflections.
Plus, how can it be wrong if RT is doing it?
 
Whoa, thats mega broken on ps5. The blinds are like 10 in from the glass max, but the broken reflection shows up like 2 feet behind them :messenger_grinning_sweat:

edit: the blinds are literally pressing against the glass therefor making ps5 reflections hilariously inaccurate.


Ok I just made these now on PS5, seems like the glass reflection is accurate and the metal reflection is indeed far away as stated above:

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The metal sheet is around 1" away:

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martino

Member
It was described by the original source, and it has been vetted by mod.

If you doubt the integrity of both, then fair enough. I don’t and have no reasons too. People only believing what they want is nothing new either way, since the dawn of day it has been so.
why would i have to believe a stranger on word when there are proof i can judge content myself ?
 
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Alex and myself shown pics of XSX with dual reflections matching pc


Alex confirming XSX and PC show dual reflections correctly. It’s actually ps5 showing a bug with how far apart the 2 reflections are


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I mean, thats what happens when you're an amateur youtuber pretending to be a "pro" and having the most enourmous hard on for everything sony. You rush to hilariously false conclusions where bugged and eronous rendering is "superior". The competitors console to the one you worship has a graphical bug in exactly one section and you say the entire game is like that. Touting the consoles "powah" when it runs the game at low and turned off settings and low resolution. Lower settings are "better" because they look worse which is ... real life like? Put all this together and you end up embrassing yourself, as if you needed extra help. Jeez
 
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Arias05

Banned
Only because he's just looking at frame rate.
But if he took the time to understand if the PS5 has more reflection to calculate,
The frame rate would be lower.

The guy literally said the PS5 is doing more reflections,
Obviously the XBSX would have a higher frame rate if it's doing less RT calculations.
Ps5 isn’t doing more reflections. XSX and pc has dual reflections the difference is ps5 has one way over offset apart
 

Thirty7ven

Banned
why would i have to believe a stranger on word when they are proof i can judge content myself ?

As long as you are coherent with that criteria.

But can you explain why DF bothered with showing loading results but didn’t bother with sharing install sizes? Nothing about compression. Just zero information here. Why? SSD space and expandable storage were a topic of contention before the consoles released.

Why are they so selective?
 

Bo_Hazem

Banned
Whoa, thats mega broken on ps5. The blinds are like 10 in from the glass max, but the broken reflection shows up like 2 feet behind them :messenger_grinning_sweat:

Give us a PC screenshots that have such angles so we can compare, so far seems PC has both farer than they should be = align good but doesn't mean accurate.
 
As long as you are coherent with that criteria.

But can you explain why DF bothered with showing loading results but didn’t bother with sharing install sizes? Nothing about compression. Just zero information here. Why? SSD space and expandable storage were a topic of contention before the consoles released.

Why are they so selective?
Compression and install size differences are nothing but conjecture at this time. You can say they are different sizes but can only assume as to the why which is the important part.
 

quest

Not Banned from OT
Just for reference, off the top of my head, DF could not even identify the reason for stuttering on Xbox. They chalked it up to a mysterious bug. NX was actually able to identify the reason -- which was the CPU core being over loaded.

Also, John (whom I like the most from the DF crew) could not even identify the graphical differences in Dirt 5 in 60 FPS mode. According to him, only the 120hz mode had the differences, but that wasn't the case at all.

So, DF crew are also humans -- and they aren't perfect in technical analysis either. NXGamer was able to outdo the experienced DF staff multiple times in his technical analysis.
Does he have a development kit and profiled the game during a studder or he is guessing to.

Nxgamer has yet to put up a video that puts Sony in any sort of negative light in a show down. Hate df all you want they post wins for both sides. That is why both sides biitch about them and they are close to neutral and professional as you can get.
 

JimboJones

Member
As long as you are coherent with that criteria.

But can you explain why DF bothered with showing loading results but didn’t bother with sharing install sizes? Nothing about compression. Just zero information here. Why? SSD space and expandable storage were a topic of contention before the consoles released.

Why are they so selective?
Does install size affect performance? The data for install size is easily available for everyone to see.
 
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martino

Member
As long as you are coherent with that criteria.

But can you explain why DF bothered with showing loading results but didn’t bother with sharing install sizes? Nothing about compression. Just zero information here. Why? SSD space and expandable storage were a topic of contention before the consoles released.

Why are they so selective?
ok let's play this game then why nxgamer didn't spoke about latency in rt mode and all differences with pc version like lod , missing bounce light and shadow ?
Conpiracy to make ps5 look better than it is ? or just different people with with different context and "personnalities" to look for difference ?
 
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Thirty7ven

Banned
ok let's play this game then why nxgamer didn't spoke about latency in rt mode and all differences with pc version like lod , missing bounce light and shadow ?
Conpiracy to make ps5 look better than it is ? or just different people with with different context and "personnalities" to look for difference ?

I got the impression he was comparing consoles.
 
So apparently Matt Hargett (ex-Software Engineer of PS5) agrees with Digital Foundry's and, by relation I'd assume, NX Gamer's use of Photo Mode as a benchmark. And it's true; some game engines will favor Series X's GPU design while some others will favor PS5's GPU design. I don't see why it's an even remotely controversial statement to make.

Granted, no one's playing the game in Photo Mode hence why it's an academic benchmark; hopefully whatever is causing the frame drops and microstutter on Series X when text crawls on the screen is fixed in a patch. But considering the porting team for this game was quite small, and that Remedy are focusing on Crossfire X, I doubt it'll get patched anytime too soon.

He basically called out the double standard in the media, etc, towards Capitol Hill and BLM. He explained how BLM had caused far more damage, more deaths, etc, on Twitter, then further explained himself on Resetera.

PlayStation is very woke and very in support of BLM (your money literally goes towards a company that is run by Resetera like minded people when you buy PlayStation consoles and games) and they will not want anything to do with NXG now because of that Resetera situation. Also, now that he works for IGN, I fear he might backpedal and apologise purely to keep his job.

TBH the entire situation was stupid, but on both ends. It was a technical analysis thread on controller input latency, there is zero reason why it should've spilled off into covering Twitter rants and drama. If NX Gamer wants to be taken seriously as a professional he needs to know when to now go for the low-hanging fruit bait; ignore them completely and they will eventually get bored.

That said, it's just another example why ResetEra is a trash heap of a "forum" outside of a scant few quality gaming threads that pop up here and there, and I've noticed some of the posters I usually like reading posts from there have scaled back or stopped completely. Probably because they don't like the hyper-polarizing political atmosphere that manifests there in even innocuous gaming threads. Can't say I blame them whatsover.
 
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You’re just proving my point here. To defend DF’s bias when it comes to Xbox/PlayStation, you are trying to normalize it by saying NXgamer is pro PS5. Which means you know DF are bias, but you accept that.


Where the fuck does this microsoft bias come from ? Didnt they spend the entirety of the generation declaring ps4 the winner over xbox in almost every comparison ?
 

ethomaz

Banned
Where the fuck does this microsoft bias come from ? Didnt they spend the entirety of the generation declaring ps4 the winner over xbox in almost every comparison ?
You have a different view of PS4 gen that most of us.

DF always tried to make the Xbox One looks better including showing faked results.

They are the ones that created resolution is everything on PS360 and denied it on PS4/XB1 saying the 1080p and 900p differences were imperceptible.

There are some famous threads here in GAF about DF... the bias is not about PS5/Series but come from way before that... it peaked at PS4/XB1.
 
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Bo_Hazem

Banned
So apparently Matt Hargett (ex-Software Engineer of PS5) agrees with Digital Foundry's and, by relation I'd assume, NX Gamer's use of Photo Mode as a benchmark. And it's true; some game engines will favor Series X's GPU design while some others will favor PS5's GPU design. I don't see why it's an even remotely controversial statement to make.

Granted, no one's playing the game in Photo Mode hence why it's an academic benchmark; hopefully whatever is causing the frame drops and microstutter on Series X when text crawls on the screen is fixed in a patch. But considering the porting team for this game was quite small, and that Remedy are focusing on Crossfire X, I doubt it'll get patched anytime too soon.

Damn, you don't need to boost the size of Twinkle Riot's ass. :lollipop_tears_of_joy:

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Thirty7ven

Banned
Where the fuck does this microsoft bias come from ? Didnt they spend the entirety of the generation declaring ps4 the winner over xbox in almost every comparison ?

It’s not the data, it’s how it’s presented. See politics it’s not about what’s true and what’s a lie, it’s about how the truth is presented.

Nobody is accusing DF of lying. Honestly I think if you don’t notice DF’s bias, then you’re pretty blind to bias in general unless it goes against your own bias.

DF isn’t consistent in the way it presents and explores the data it gathers. This is a fact

Example:

Dirt 5 comparison video title:

- Dirt 5: PS5 vs Xbox Series X/Series S comparison + performance: Every game mode tested!

Hitman 3 comparison video title:

- Hitman 3 PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S comparison: An Xbox advantage at 4K


First, who are we kidding? Can they use anymore words/letters to highlight Xbox? Is this a joke? And how come when Dirt 5 was a clearly superior version on PS5, it didn’t get the advantage treatment?

They are a joke.
 
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Neo_game

Member
Not sure what the fuss is all about TBH. Both the consoles have their own advantages.The game is a port and little buggy and not representative of console full potential. The devs themselves said they are using same settings, and they are small team. It is time to move on ... 🤷‍♂️
 
Where the fuck does this microsoft bias come from ? Didnt they spend the entirety of the generation declaring ps4 the winner over xbox in almost every comparison ?
I am pretty lax on DF compared to others, but the question is about making the Xbox look good/downplaying weaknesses of the Xbox one.

Heck, look at their old videos about Ryze son of Rome,the games runs at 26fpa and they say it's still smooth, the 900p scaling is great, nobody would notice, etc. Then they do the analysis of Killzone Shadow Fall and complain about the framerate thas is always above 30fps and some AA solution they don't like.

2020: 1800p is too blurry compared to native 4k, they don't care about constant framerate drops anymore, also they don't abother doing their own analysis anymore... Just ask the dev and run with it (asking the dev is fine, running with it is not).

The disparity in highlighting good points and downplaying the weaknesses on Xbox is always there, they won't go and tell you that the Sony console is trash, but they won't notice issues/bugs/limitations on Xbox.
 

Loxus

Member
Ps5 isn’t doing more reflections. XSX and pc has dual reflections the difference is ps5 has one way over offset apart
Bruh, where you guys seeing the dual reflections on XBSX,
Alex took a pic of a low quality reflection and think it dual reflection.
I can't believe console wars is this real that people making up things just so the XBSX would be looked at as more powerful.

You xbox guys be blind when XBSX has missing reflections or low quality details.
If you look closely at the same very pic from Alex, you'll see XBSX still has no reflection from the glass.
It's like their is no glass there.
The only flection is the metal.

On PS5 you can see where the reflection from the glass changes the color on the metal.
Plus, the PS5 glass reflection has a sharp edge.
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Where the hell is the reflection from glass changing the color on the metal on XBSX?
And there is no sharpness to say it has a reflection from the glass.
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Get outta here with you all fan boy nonsense.
 
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DF always tried to make the Xbox One looks better including showing faked results.
Yup, extremely annoying.
They are the ones that created resolution is everything on PS360 and denied it on PS4/XB1 saying the 1080p and 900p differences were imperceptible.
They got new prescription glasses now, because on high pixel density screens with modern upscaling technology they see every little detail now.

In the ps360 area they were completely right, most 3rd party games ran significantly worst on the PS3, had lower resolution, etc. I know I had a PS3 and up until the xbone reveal I was about to switch side (along a couple of friends, in the end nobody went with MS).

Anyway, that's when their take on the analysis became Alien, and it's gotten worse with the new generation.
 
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