Watch Dogs PC On High Settings Equivalent To New-Gen According To Director

Responding to fan inquiry on Twitter, Watch Dogs creative director Jonathan Morin said the new-gen version of Watch Dogs is the same as the PC version of the game on high settings.

@SyrupCommander PC High settings = NG Consoles

— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) May 21, 2014

Typically, when it comes to these comparisons, the PC version of a game universally has the upper hand, but according to Morin's tweet, the PC and new-gen versions of Watch Dogs can be equated with the former running on "high."

It's worth noting there is a setting beyond high settings for Watch Dogs on PC called ultra. You can read about the specs to run the game on ultra settings here, but Morin tweeted updated details about the ultra settings in April seen below – a few months after Ubisoft released the game's PC specs and we published the linked story.

...Ultra specs : Intel Core i7-4770K with a GeForce 780. The PC video was recorded on an Intel Core i7-3930K with a GeForce Titan IIRC.

— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) April 13, 2014

Ultra settings are where Watch Dogs will best its new-gen console counterparts, but to use those settings will require a pricey and recent update.

Watch Dogs is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on Tuesday, May 27. A Wii U version of the game is also planned for release this fall. For more on Watch Dogs, head here.

[Source: @Design_Cave]

Our Take
We won't know for sure how the different versions of Watch Dogs perform until next week, but Morin probably wouldn't tweet something like this if he weren't confident about the technical performance of the game.