Ubisoft’s branch, Massive Entertainment, managing director David Polfeldt told GameSpot at E3 that Ubisoft’s upcoming highly-anticipated third-person shooter, The Division will run in 30 fps on PS4 and Xbox Onesystems. The decision came after some studying as he discovered that if they tried to increase it to 60fps, they would have to sacrifice some other game areas like “graphical fidelity and immersion.”
“I think we’re shooting for 30fps because it’s a trade-off, right? Graphical fidelity and immersion are more important to us than the frame-rate,” Polfeldt said. “If we go for [60fps], we’ll have to make a trade-off on fidelity and other things,” he said.
“But because we want to have very, very complex destruction and extremely detailed environments; a complete weather system, full day/night cycle … at some point you have to make up your mind: where do you invest? And for us, it’s going to be 30fps,” Polfeldt added.
When asked about if the resolution got the same treatment and also got downgraded, he responded with “Resolution-wise? I don’t know.”
The Division is expected to launch in 2015 across Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC platforms.
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