First things first, Watch Dogs began development on PC, so Ubisoft Montreal believes that it should look fantastic on PC. Despite also releasing on the previous-gen consoles though, if you’re hoping to get away with running it on an older rig, you’d probably best think again…
The Watch Dogs PC version scales based on the sort of computer you're running it on, though the team made the decision "not too scale down too much," according to Watch Dogs' senior producer Dominic Guay. "I mean you can always say we support a 10-year-old PC and then it's barely playable, but that's ugly. It's not really what people want to play. We didn't do that. We didn't go there. We said, ‘OK, we advertise that at the recommended setting it's going to be a good experience. It's going to look good, it's not going to look like a 10-year-old game.' So we're not going to support very old PCs.”
For those of you who’ve spent some big bucks on your gaming PC though, well, you’re in luck. “If you have very powerful PCs, then it'll scale up, and it scale up to even higher resolution, obviously, than you can have on PS4 or Xbox One,” Guay continued. "So you can have, in theory, a version that will look spectacular if you have that big screen, that high resolution capability. The game looks great on PC."
When development began on Watch Dogs it was before Ubisoft had got wind of the next-gen consoles. They knew they were coming but they didn’t what they when or when they’d arrive. To compensate for this Ubisoft Montreal developed it for PC first, knowing they could upscale it or downscale it as necessary for whichever platforms it would release on. "When we started developing, the PS3 existed, the Xbox 360 existed, and we kind of suspected, maybe, there might be other platforms eventually," Guay said. "So, because we thought that would happen we chose the PC as our first target to have when we started developing Watch Dogs so that we have the flexibility to adapt to a different platform. So PC has always been around for us. Sometimes it's a last-minute port of sorts. For us, it's been around since we started."
Good news for PC gamers, but also a tacit admission perhaps that many PC ports are rushed out the door quickly…
The Watch Dogs release date was officially unveiled yesterday. Watch Dogs will release worldwide on May 27th for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360. A Wii U version is expected some time later.Do you think the final Watch Dogs system requirements will be as high as the specs leaked all those months ago?
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