Watch Dogs confirmed as 900p on PS4, 792p on Xbox One

Ubisoft has moved to clarify what resolutions the different versions of Watch Dogs will be running at, in a blog called What Makes Watch Dogs a True Next-Gen Game.

In the lengthy blog the studio - with plenty of quotes from creative director Jonathan Morin - elaborated on several of the systemic features that we'll be able to see more of when the game launches on all platforms (except Wii U) on May 27.

After a lengthy pre-amble, the blog got to the matter in hand:

"The game is almost exactly the same [on both generations]. The single-player experience is largely untouched, aside from the density of Chicago - there'll be fewer NPCs in some areas, but not in a way that affects the core gameplay. The seamless online is also intact."

"The only missing modes on PS3 and Xbox 360 are the Decryption competitive multiplayer mode and the ability to free roam with multiple players... But all the other online modes are fully intact."

Then we get to the meat of it: "The game also looks great on both generations of consoles. On new-gen systems the game will run at 900p on PS4 and 792p on Xbox One, at 30 frames-per-second on both consoles."

They also clarified that the reason why they haven't used the game's delay (it was intended to be a launch title for new-gen consoles) to work on improving resolutions was "that was never the goal" and "that extra time was spent ensuring the team could fully realize their vision for Watch Dogs, polishing all aspects of the gameplay and making sure hacking is fully integrated into every system."

Morin said: "The effort was split on continuing dynamism and making sure players can express themselves through hacking without ever being disappointed in how the game responds to them, whether it's visually or through gameplay. That's important. Resolution has nothing to do with that. That's why stuff like resolution can scale a bit down so that we never compromise the soul of Watch Dogs."