Face-Off: Trials Fusion - PS4 vs Xbox One vs PC vs Xbox 360

Trials Fusion is the most ambitious entry in RedLynx's physics-driven motorbike game to date, developed in tandem with other internal studios at Ubisoft and delivered on four platforms - PS4, Xbox One, PC and Xbox 360. The most exciting battleground is next-gen console, where Fusion shoots for full 1080p on PS4, while optimisation has clearly gone down to the wire on Xbox One, which arrived at 800p before being boosted to 900p in a day-one patch.

[PainUzumaki]

Tried to play this in 1080p and it didnt work...I wonder why

[sigfredod]

you should try to play on PC or PS4 and will work in 1080p

[pedrof93]

Ps4 is native 1080p. X1 900p. 'Nough said.

[randomass171]

Wait, do you mean the game or the YouTube video?

[PainUzumaki]

Sorry The youtube video...Should of made that clear...I was making fun at the Xbone

[reaperofsouls]

what! the xbone can't even run this game at 1080p

[Gamer1982]

"Overall, the work RedLynx has put into optimising Trials Fusion across all four platforms is impressive. The PC release stands ahead of the pack by a notable margin thanks to its higher-quality alpha effects, fully v-synced playback and the potential for better texture streaming via SSD, but despite a few small shortcomings, the PS4 and Xbox One versions translate the experience across with little left on the chopping board.

It falls to resolution to define the better console release - and in this case the PS4's full 1080p native resolution gives it a clear edge. For the most part, the Xbox One's updated 1600x900 framebuffer comes respectably close in motion, but for clinical, bright indoor areas the increased pixel-crawl is a distraction. Both versions suffer from texture pop-in and occasional tearing in different areas, but otherwise they each offer a very strong experience."

Says it all really.. However if they struggle to get a game like this in 1080p on Xbox One I do worry about the future of Xbox One.. It must need some real optimization to get it there. If at all possible..

[azure1990]

Seriously they all look the same...

[randomass171]

I was trying to find a difference myself, but they all looked pretty similar. It is a small game after all, so I don't see why people would even care if this particular game was 1080p. If you want to talk visuals, you should probably ask about Watch Dogs or Destiny.

[Yi-Long]

This is actually a very very demanding game, because of the editor that comes with it. You can just build your track completely full with lots of explosions, effects, etc etc, and create a huge track, that all needs to be loaded and playing smoothly.

It might look and play simple, but there's a lot going in.

[dale_denton]

on youtube yes but when you play it home you'll see the differences

[incendy35]

PC wins, which is rather interesting on this game. They mention Texture Streaming as a major issue for both PS4 and X1. You would think the 4.5-5 GB of Memory available on the consoles would make this a non issue. Sounds like they optimized for PC "less video RAM" and ported to consoles. Which makes sense from a production standpoint, but would have liked to see the console versions more optimized instead of just being ports.

[sigfredod]

major issue was never mentioned on the article

[DreamTension]

The texture streaming is an issue due to the read speed of the console hard drives, not a memory limitation. Plus, they are comparing to a PC using a SSD

[Letros]

PC Wins

[incendy35]

Exactly, but should be a non issue if you move the textures to RAM beforehand. You can pre-load a lot more texture data when you have 4gb of memory compared to PC's where it can be as low as 1GB for this game.

[zeuanimals]

The PS4 has a replaceable harddrive, and you can put in an SSD. Would that improve games though? I've heard it improves the boot up speed but that's all, probably more but I just haven't heard much on the topic.

[Codey47]

@ Zeuanimals.

A hybrid SSD or an SSD improves load times of the OS and the objects within the OS.
I have a Hybrid in my PS3 and the speed increase is more than noticeable across the board.

Texture streaming is almost eradicated with Hybrids or SSD HDD compared to stock drives.
Installs quicker, loads quicker, slightly better framerates due to data being delivered quicker to the RAM.

[aquamala]

Those 4-5.5GB on next gen consoles are not just video ram, it's the ram available for the whole game. Your average gaming pc with a 2gb video ram and 8gb of system ram have double the memory of these consoles

[heisenberguk]

"Major issue" REALLY?

[Hellsvacancy]

They all look the same to me, crappy Youtube vides

[bestofthebest]

I played both versions the ps4 version looks crisper but not by much compared to x1. I rather play this on the x1 thou mostly because of the controller and the xbox record feature. The visuals are just not that drastic of a difference between the two.

[randomass171]

The only real difference appears to be the resolution. Why are people so focused on this? It plays and looks good on BOTH platforms regardless of the resolution.

[Jumper09]

Why should people switch to new Hardware if Graphics and especially Resolution doesnt matter?

We are in 2014, not 2005.

[RiPPn]

Not sure why people still try and say the Xbox controller is better. The D-pad on the DualShock 4 is far superior to the one on the bone. And the rigid bumps on the Xbox controller thumbsticks make your fingers raw after long sessions. The only thing I dislike about the DualShock 4 is the battery life, but I have 2 of them so one is always charged and ready to go. I will admit I am biased toward Sony, but I put that bias aside when comparing the controllers.

[arinaborina]

honestly the d-pad on ds4 is the worst lol everything else is great, just not as good. huge improvement for ds4, but still not as good as x1

[Jumper09]

There is a SHARE button on your controller for recording clips on PS4...

[MasterCornholio]

Is anyone happy that they managed to maintain a solid 60FPS across all platforms?

That to me is more important than the resolution in a game like this however the PS4 is the best console version of this game followed by the Xbox One and then the Xbox 360.

[randomass171]

^THANK YOU. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally someone who's not hung up on the stupid resolution.

[MasterCornholio]

I'll be honest with you. I care about resolution but framerate is more important to me. Thats the main reason why I prefer the PS4 because the framerate tends to be the same or greater than the Xbox One version plus the games run in 1080P. If PS4 games ran horribly at 1080P while Xbox One games run fine in 900P I would choose the Xbox One version. Thankfully that isnt the case with multiplats.

P.S And about gameplay. 90% of that comes from developers the rest from hardware (framerate). Which is why you can have a game with amazing visuals and amazing gameplay.

[iistuii]

There's seriously something a miss with the dev's working on the Xbox one. I have a PS4 & Gaming PC so I have no bone to pick, but after playing Forza5 in 1080/60fps on a friends Xbox One, there's no way a side scrolling game should be having difficulty running on it. I bought Trials Fusion on PS4 & it's great stuff, but it should be able to run 1080 on Xbox surely.

[hello12]

Microsoft revealed at the build conference, they held last month,the issues are if people listened.

32embeeded Esram is for the Gpu exclusively ,the older type esram found in the 360 was fitted on the
boardboard to be used for the OS and games.

Devs are unfimilar with the new design. You dont use Esram for low level textures and graphics. My view i believe devs used the 5 gigs of ddr3 for games,only, the third party devs at least.

Forza and Ryse prove the x box 1 isnt weak they look great for launch games and the devs likely understood how to use the ESRam better.

[imt558]

But is pretty odd that game on Xbone is 800p before patching.

KNWS, just making excuses about eSRAM. :rolleyes:

Next big game @subFULLHD resolution on Xbone is Watch Dogs. What will be your excuse then, KNWS?

[iistuii]

I don't know about him making excuses but I've played & seen with my own eyes both Forza & Ryse & your not gonna convince me that a game like Trials Fusion is pushing the xbox.

[hello12]

Not really because third party devs still coded trials the old way, its been in development,before we touched the consoles

I said it months ago i would not be surprised if the PS4 version of Watch Dogs
has a higher resolution. Its a launch game that got delayed, so i am not expecting both versions to be the same?

If the devs put in extra effort with the new Sdk's they got in March-April maybe yes both will look identical?

[imt558]

Now new SDK are excuse, KNWS?

[N8]

So I guess xb1 similar to how the ps3 was last gen. You won't see the power of the console until the exclusives release. I really like to balance my games out on both systems. It's been hard to do that this gen.

[Hicken]

Except it won't be possible for the XB1 to have superior looking exclusives, or the better version of multiplats.

[N8]

I agree, I wasn't saying it would look better than ps4. I was saying that I guess my x1 will be used for its exclusives more.

[Oldman100]

I wish they would've included another segment comparing the texture streaming between their SSD equipped PC and an SSD equipped PS4.

[thexmanone]

Why we all know what the PS4 Fans will say.

[beatled]

pc version goes to 1200p, 1440p, 2k, 3k, 4k

massive anti aliasing, 120 fps

CRAPS on ps4 and xbox1 versions

ps4/xb1 are not even in the same gen as pc, they are WAY closer to xbox360 and ps3 and should not even be compared with pc

[HaydenJameSmith]

And i wonder how much you'd have to pay for a PC to do all that continuously for all games since next gen launched ? hmmm then you take into regard that you'd have to upgrade you graphics card every 2 years to maintain that amazing performance... I am a PC gamer but honestly its not worth the hassle when i can buy a new game and play it straight away on my x1 or ps4 without any hassle at much better quality than what you claim it...

closer to the 360 and PS3 my ass... these consoles have closed the gap considerably and even developers have been saying it, so don't talk ignorantly of pc vs next gen consoles... yes pc will always be better but at a cost and for very little gain...

[Illusive_Man]

Textures look better on xbox one.