Eurogamer tech expert Oliver McKenzie has posted a video of the technical breakdown The Callisto Protocol on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. According to a Digital Foundry specialist, the developers have made serious compromises, but have not yet achieved the ideal.
Almost all aspects have been significantly downgraded.
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Texture quality is severely degraded, parallax occlusion and no decal maps, some textures take a long time to load, some end up not loading fully
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Object geometry has been simplified to the limit, shadow maps have been reduced in quality
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Good quality lighting and character models
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Shadows and post-process effects are better on PS4 Pro and Xbox One X
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Xbox One — 720-900p
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PlayStation 4 — 864-1080p
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Xbox One X/PS4 Pro — 1368-1440p
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Intro movie is pre-recorded, live movies are rendered at 24 frames
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The frame rate on Xbox One is very erratic, often below 30 FPS, especially in combat; PS4/Pro is better, but suffers from severe stuttering
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One X shows the most stable frame rate
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McKenzie says the Series S version of The Callisto Protocol beats the One X version by a wide margin
The Callisto Protocol it came out on December 2nd
