Darn, the regular PS4 version doesn't seem to run that well IMO

Daily reminder they've had 5 years to deal with this.

>expecting MEA to run 30fps on modern consoles

You should have known better.

If you are playing on a console and have strong feelings regarding frame-rates I think you might have made a mistake in choice of gaming device.

I think 3-4 of those were spent wasting a lot of time on a redirecting game vision and staff leaving over scrapped work. (pure speculation but people they presented as leading staff were removed from their blog for instance)

Also this is PS4 pro vs Ultra PC. Image quality is slightly held back by it being a GIF I made and the Pro version looks paler because it's from a live-stream with bad video setup but you can clearly see two things: DoF and Post-processing is low quality on console versions or what would be "Medium" in Battlefront for example. It doesn't look cinematic, it looks more like fog akin to the type of effect you'd see in PS3 games. Shadows are definitely not on ultra and I think Lighting is turned down a notch, perhaps even texture compression too. There's a lessened detail in the materal on the captain's suit in the Pro image. Also, notice the edges of her suit. The mesh-LoD decreases making her clothes look thinner and less rounded. Welp. I'm going with the PC version after all even if it means playing in 720p.

That's not true. 30fps and 60fps is nice but as soon as you drop below 30 it feels like it's "lagging" as evidenced by Witcher 3 for example which consistently dropped to 20fps in demanding areas making it feel unresponsive and unplayable. This looks really, really framey when in motion on a PS4, an issue Dragon Age Inquisition does not have. There is that slight cutscene stuttering sometimes in DA:I, but it feels like that's there but in the gameplay as well. It just did not look satisfying in motion when I saw it.

EDIT: This was Xbox 1 footage, not PS4 Pro and the good looking image is PC Ultra settings

Read my post. I differentiated what looked as it does because of the stream quality vs what actually changes in the internal rendering of graphics.

Key points are:
- Medium/high Shadow settings as opposed to Ultra
- Decreased Mesh LoD quality (less polygons, jagged shapes)
- Slightly downscaled textures
- Medium or low post-processing and DoF meaning the depth of field looks like fog as opposed to cinematic focus blur (this effect is very demanding but it was in DA:I on PS4)

EDIT: I lied. This is Xbox 1 not PS4 pro, but the good looking version is Ultra PC.

No, no. I saw the Gamespot video, it seemed overly laggy, stuff I notice in livestreams and whatnot, and yeah - the outsidexbox video looked very smooth. As for the visuals, I found them pretty great in both consoles.

But it's the framerate I'm focusing on.

People who play con consoles aren't rich snobs who have thousands of dollars to spend on new pc parts. 

This generation of frostbite games have major issues with stability on the ps4 due to Sonys insistnence in being 1080p. This shouldn't be a surprise anymore. Just look up any digital foundry video about a frostbite game.

Except literally every video game developer agrees the PS4 is far easier to develop for than the PS3. I excused the poor frame rate ME3 had on the PS3 because it was a hard console to develop for. No company should have trouble developing for the PS4 unless they just plain suck at their jobs. It's no harder than the Xbox One.

Nope, but I pay less for games, and most of the time run them with ultra quality/60fps+.  Oh also there is amazing modding community

Plus I don't use my PC only for games..