Does Cities Skylines run quickly with 100k+ pop on PS4?

[fattyboy1211 1]

Hey guys, I have cities skylines on my laptop and the game time runs incredibly slow after 100k population which makes it impossible to play for me. I am thinking of getting the game on PS4, but does anyone know if the game runs quickly with big populations on a console? Thank you

[City_Borders 19]

The game does slow down a bit but it is more than playable for me anyway. Zoning does take a while to pop up after 250k+ though, and do not expect to use the fast forward buttons after that threshold, there is not much difference with the default play.

[rsc204 21,857]

The only thing the PS4 has going for it is both a lot of V-RAM, something the game eats way too much of and a standardised platform, which in real terms means the whole system is more efficient/optimised over a regular PC setup.

I think the key problem here is that you are using a laptop, which is incidentally essentially what a PS4 (or modern XBox) is in terms of it's innards. Armed with superior cooling a desktop equivalent CPU/GPU will always prove to be much more powerful, because in a Laptop you have to stop everything melting and the cooling system is limited.

What sort of system specs do you have currently (CPU, RAM, GPU and do you have an SSD which the game is installed upon)? Of course there isn't a lot you can do to upgrade laptops, so it's not like we can fix the problem. But unless your system is getting on a bit, it seems unlikely it would be less powerful than a PS4 given the age of those. Ergo, I can't see you are going to benefit hugely from switching to a console. I'd also add, I've never known a single game of this genre work well on a console, perhaps with the exception of the original SimCity on the SNES, mostly due to it's simplicity frankly. Sans a keyboard and mouse it's usually horrible to control anything, but often there are other compromises made when such games are ported to consoles that make for an inferior experience overall. I'd be surprised if this too wasn't the case for Cities Skylines, perhaps google some reviews which compare the two before parting with your cash?