Kingdom Hearts 3 PS4 Pro vs Xbox One Graphics Comparison – Which Version Is The Best?

Head to head comparison between the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X versions of Kingdom Hearts 3.

[Jin_Sakai]

Digital Foundry stated that the PS4 Pro Version when defaulted to 1080p is the best version to play.

https://streamable.com/df6r...

[Neonridr]

yes because it offers a slightly more stable framerate than the One X version which is running at 1440p. Guess it depends on if you want a few more frames or better resolution.

[darthv72]

sounds like the X is best if you want both higher res clarity as well as close to target frame rate. If you want to sacrifice one for the other then the Pro is the way to go.

[Eonjay]

No this is a case where because of vanity, the Pro has the best running version. If they gave the Xbox the ability to run 1080p, it would be the smoothest. In the PC world you can do this. And, the stable mode is a complete farce.

[xRacer74x]

I went with the X. To me 1440p is still a big leap from 1080p. It has a few hiccups at 1440p but still way better than going back to what seems like an ancient 1080p.

[OpenGL]

If you want to talk about ancient look no further than the regular Xbox One... 720p

[Neonridr]

@OpenGL - sure, I guess. But that's not what the main topic of discussion is here.

[Babadook7]

Pro wins the most frame rate competitions with the X. (I get downvoted each time I say it, and I say it a lot, cause it happens a lot) X does win more 'overall' head to heads obviously. But to some gamers frame rate stability is the first priority.

[Teflon02]

Few more. Pro at 10980p was basically a locked 60 while xbox one x is like 40 to 50. It's a big difference

[Neonridr]

@Babadook - The only reason the Pro is more stable is usually down to the game being rendered at a lower resolution. Devs are obviously trying to push the highest resolution possible with the One X.

@Teflon02- it's not locked.. read the report. it says it stays closer to 60. That being said, if the One X had the ability to do 1080p only it would be 100% locked in. The One X is pushing a million and a half more pixels each frame.. don't forget that.

[rainslacker]

Graphics of this game don't benefit much from higher resolutions IMO. Anime or cell shaded in general tends to look better when the graphics aren't as sharp, and 1080 should be good enough to remove most of the jaggies.

About the only thing you might get more out of with Xbox is better lighting, which in itself doesn't always compliment cell shaded art styles. Just looking at the thumbnail. the softer blend in Sora's face looks unnatural for anime, which tends to have more single colors to harder transitions. but in terms of lighting, it does appear that the X1X produced a better look due to lighting.

[EddieNX]

Nah the X is the best version. A few unnoticeable dips here and there doesn't change the fact it's much higher resolution.

[Nyxus]

Not according to DF.

[Eonjay]

1440P isn't earth shattering. And it does not make up for the solid 60 that you get on Pro at 1080p. Thats how I am playing it. It looks fine on my 4K TV. The Pro at 1296p is pretty smooth but going to 1080p is so much better. I don't miss the res boost at all. The X is a similar situation. I will take 60FPS over 1440p

[Neonridr]

@Eonjay - but you don't get a solid 60 on the Pro even at 1080p. DF just said that at 1080p the Pro stays closer to the 60 mark, but it isn't solid 60, don't fool yourself. Of course it looks fine to you, that's what you have to tell yourself. You don't have the option to see the game at 1440p on the Pro, so naturally you will say it isn't anything special.

1440p displays over 1.6 million more pixels than 1080p which is an additional 77% of the pixel count found in a 1080p display. You can tell yourself that you can't see a difference, but I assure you there is a difference.

[Jin_Sakai]

@Neonridr

“1440p displays over 1.6 million more pixels than 1080p“

Do pixels make the gameplay any better? No they don’t. A nearly locked 60fps does though. Xbox One X hovers around 50 to 60fps.

[Neonridr]

@Jin_Sakai - agree with what you are saying, but a framerate that fluctuates between 50-60 isn't going to be extremely jarring or anything. Not to the same degree that say 25-30 would be.

and no, more pixels don't make a game better. But it certainly makes it prettier. I would understand if the Pro was offering a locked 60 but it isn't. It still has dips. Far fewer than the One X does, but the One X is also pushing that many more pixels per frame too..

[SierraGuy]

I like the most fluid experience.

My eyes notice those "few dips here and there" and so does my controller.

[rainslacker]

My conclusion.

Xbox fan boys are going to claim up and down that X1X is the best version of the game, and is the only way to play it.

Sony fan boys are going to say the PS4 version is better, or at least perfectly fine because of whatever metric may favor them according to DF....which you'll notice isn't gamingbolt, because no Sony fan respects gamingbolt, especially for comparisons, or for things that Hellpoint dev says.

Me, I don't care. Game looks great at 1080 on the PS4P. And to me, shaper images from higher resolutions don't work well in cell-shaded style artwork, which are naturally softer anyhow. Jaggies are what ruins cell shading, and at 1080, jaggies aren't going to be much more pronounced, if at all, compared to 1440. I play a lot of Japanese anime games, and the ones that push higher resolutions with that style, tend to look off.

[Babadook7]

You will notice the missing 10 frames a second far sooner than you will notice the 40% sharper image. DF is right that the Pro 60 FPS mode wins this hands down.

[Nyxus]

Yep, they did.

"The performance range is in the same 50-60fps window as Xbox One X, but the difference is that the Pro locks to the top end much more consistently. In theory, an Xbox One X version running on a FreeSync display may deliver a smoother, higher resolution presentation overall, but for standard screens, I think it's the PS4 Pro version that runs and plays best."

https://www.eurogamer.net/a...

[darthv72]

... when you run it at 1080p.

I'm curious if anyone with an X and only using a 1080p screen would see the same results? All we usually hear about is people using 4k but not everyone uses 4k sets. Hell... I still have a 720p set in one of my rooms. would plugging a pro into a 720p yield even better results by doing that trick they described?

[Neonridr]

so when is 50+ fps @ 1440p unacceptable? I would gladly take a few frames here and there, probably which will go for the most part unnoticed, to get a better screen presentation. If the Xbox One X had received a 1080p option it would have been hard locked at 60fps, with zero dips.

[Nyxus]

@ Neonridr: who said anything about unacceptable? Digital Foundry simply stated that the PS4 Pro version is the best version to play. People can disagree all day long, but that's what they said.

[Kribwalker]

“Curiously, while the standard PS4 and Xbox One have similar outputs here, it seems to be the Microsoft machine that has a small advantage in testing like-for-like scenes. Also surprising is the fact that the PS4 Pro actually runs slower than both of them, and noticeably so. At the top of the pile sits Xbox One X, handing in its native 1440p presentation mostly in 50-60fps territory.“

So if the pro was running as intended it’s frame rate are less then that of the base consoles (at a lower resolution then the Onex as well) but if you want to force the pro to playin 1080p then you get a closer to 60fps.

So if FPS was your go to then the Pro is where to play, but if you want better image quality and almost the same FPS play on the X.

Since it’s not a online multiplayer game i’m gonna go with better image

[darthv72]

"Digital Foundry simply stated that the PS4 Pro version is the best version to play." but that is not entirely true. It was only in a certain context that it was true. How many people are going to do what they suggest in order to get there?

for open the package, insert disc and play, the X was the best because it required no tweaks and managed a higher res as well as closer to target frame rate. Square is likely going to have some patches that improve things for all platforms but as of right now the X is the best overall while the Pro is the best if you limit it to 1080p.

[Neonridr]

strangely enough, why is it that that Pro users get a 1080p option but the One X users don't?

[Kribwalker]

@neon
You have to go to the settings on the ps4 itself and change it to 1080p on the system to force the game to play in 1080p mode on the ps4. it’s in the system settings and nothing to do with the game

[Neonridr]

@Krib - ahh fair enough.. I guess this is the mode on the Pro that you turn on in the settings for more stable performance.

[TheUndertaker85]

“Curiously, while the standard PS4 and Xbox One have similar outputs here, it seems to be the Microsoft machine that has a small advantage in testing like-for-like scenes. Also surprising is the fact that the PS4 Pro actually runs slower than both of them, and noticeably so. At the top of the pile sits Xbox One X, handing in its native 1440p presentation mostly in 50-60fps territory.”

From the same story. Puts Xbox One X at the “top of the pile”.

[Razzer]

"However, there is a further dimension to the story and actually, as a Kingdom Hearts fan, it's the PS4 Pro version I'll be playing through to completion. "

There you go. Guess the author put the PS4 Pro version on the top of his "pile".

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@Neonridr

The X will run at 1080p when not on a 4K screen, however by default the system will still render at the highest possible resolution and so in the end it gets a supersampled 1080p image. Which is good for people wanting to enjoy the best possible 1080p image if they dont have a 4k screen, but then it also means that its still rendering at the maximum capacity and cannot see improvements on framerate.

So other than an option on the game itself to set the resolution to 1080p, its not possible on the X.

Still, FFXV launched with bad performance too on all consoles, im guessing in a month or so all the different modes will be in a much better state.

[rainslacker]

@Darth

"How many people are going to do what they suggest in order to get there?"

It's not a tweak nor is it time consuming to implement. Its easy enough to switch from the PS4 settings menu....although maybe an ingame switch is there. I didn't look. I always do resolution switches through the system menu if I ever do them.

But, the vast majority of gamers don't care about this stuff.

I played it last night, and it was fine. Didn't notice any dips, nor was my game play experience hamped in any way that I felt I need to run out and get an X1X to play this game. The game doesn't look significantly better on the X1X, and in some ways, it doesn't do the cell shading justice. That may be because I prefer the less nuanced shading they did in the older games, and still prefer Disney's old style of art, over their new CGI way of doing things, which makes everything look like crap. That's one thing the old games really got right. It made the Disney worlds look good. Even for the technology at the time which couldn't handle the old style of cell shading all that great, it didn't try to make them look like every other Square FF game when FF isn't trying to be all emo. It captured the magic of Disney. This game, with how it looks on both systems, doesn't do that, regardless of the resolution. But to this end, I feel PS4P is actually a bit closer, because it has a softer look at 1080.

The frame rate is meaningless to me, because so long as it stays above 30, I'm fine.

[TheUndertaker85]

@Razzer: Except the author, in context and literally in black and white labels the Xbox One X version as “At the top of the pile”.

There is absolutely no reference to PS4 or any variation of PS4 version being put there short of your insinuation.

[Kribwalker]

Ah, Digital foundry are legit again and no longer paid by MS i guess

[Nyxus]

I never said that. But at the same time, it seems like Xbox fans suddenly don't want to believe DF anymore.

[TheUndertaker85]

@Nyxus: I think people don’t want to believe a half argument with the other half instantly wrote off. Arguments that Digital Foundry also put out. In the same story.

[DrumBeat]

LOL.

[ZeroX9876]

I started completing the whole series from the very beginning. Since I can only do that on Sony's console, the platform choice was easy for me.

But performance wise the X should have the edge over the Pro, I mean you pay more, you get more, just make sense.

[Imortus_san]

Go to Settings in the Xbox One X, turn off 4K textures and embrace the 60 frames at 1080p.

[Fluttershy77]

Why's that? Isn't the X one X more powerful?

[badboyz09]

Why are we still doing this? WHO CARES!!!!!!!! The differences are always minimal.

[TheOpenWorlder]

Xbox One X is superior. But yeah

[Elda]

Both have their good & bad.

[King_Noctis]

What’s the bad for the xbox One X?

[CrimsonWing69]

unstable frame rate, I'm gathering.

[Razzer]

Or....read the article.

[rainslacker]

Frame rate can go down to 50 instead of 60 with no way to switch to 1080p apparently.

Game looks fine on both systems. I doubt the vast majority of people are going to run out and buy the X1X because it has a slightly better version. Especially since the majority of people who like these games are probably already PS owners, and most likely still have the base hardware for the generation anyways.

Just buy the game for the system you have. It runs and plays fine on all systems. It looks about the same on all systems. The bickering over it is stupid and pointless, and just both sides trying to find a positive thing or two to puff up their console war feathers.

We've waited years for this game. I don't care if X1X plays it better. Amazon already delivered my PS4 version, and I'll be playing it this weekend.:)

[SegaSaturn669]

I'll take a great game at 1080p over a dips at 4k. Even into the next gen. A solid framerate is something this generation introduced that I never want to be without.

[Neonridr]

way to not read the story. Nothing is 4K here.

[SegaSaturn669]

I can't read. Sadly.

[masterfox]

Playstation because its is real home.

[TheOpenWorlder]

Yeah...cause that's totally what we're talking about here. Hah

[SR388]

Who cares...