Titanfall has finally dropped on Xbox One and PC, with the Xbox 360 version due out in two weeks. The two next-gen versions of the game look very good, if not amazing. But now that they're out, how do they stack up against one another? IGN put together a video showing a graphical comparison between the two versions.
The results surprised me, but maybe I was under-rating the Xbox One too much. The PC version is running at 1080p on maximum settings, and it looks very good. But the Xbox One version, to its credit, looks pretty similar, and I'm impressed.
The PC version is slightly sharper, and the lighting on the Xbox One is a little darker overall with textures a bit more shadowed, perhaps to hide a lack of quite as much detail. But sometimes, it just looks more like a stylistic choice than a hardware limitation. Players do say the differences are more noticeable in when you're playing it, which I believe, and generally the anti-aliasing and lighting are superior on the PC.
Through various pieces of moving footage and frozen stills taken in the same place on both versions, you can see that there really aren't too many major discrepancies, though. As I said, the PC version is slightly sharper overall, but not to a degree that puts the console to shame. The textures, lighting, detail of objects in the distance and fidelity of your weapon do have an edge on the PC, but I'm impressed with how closely the Xbox One stuck with the PC.
It's not running at as high of a resolution as the PC version or, I believe, as many frames per second, which is disappointing. With a newly launched next-gen console, you would hope and expect it to run launch games at 1080p and the Xbox One can't do that without sacrificing graphics quality. Respawn did saw resolution upgrades are likely coming, though.
That said, in terms of the overall graphical fidelity I don't think most people can complain. Perhaps the PC version was held back a bit to make the Xbox One edition more comparable, or the hardware is just similar to top-end PC specs for the time being until the hardware diverges again over the course of the console's life cycle.
Either way, the Xbox One version looks almost as good, and you can see for yourself below. The PC version looks better, which you'd expect, but not to a degree that you may hear PC elitists brag about for this title. Be sure to crank the YouTube video up to 1080p so you can see the differences and not be confused by low resolution playback. Thanks to IGN for the helpful comparison.