Wow, I really expected Richard to collect the check but even he was pretty honest about it.
There will be limitations on the types games they can make by tying the games to the base Xbox One, that's just how it is.
It's the main reason we even have generations. I can't wait to see what creative people can do with Zen and SSD's that are 2000x faster than HDD.
There are so many examples, the move from 1gb ram to 8gb enabled tons of games alone.
But the jump from PS3 to PS4 wasn't nearly as significant and the jump from HDD to SSD. An average PCIe3 SSD ihas over 1000 times faster read speed than an HDD and PCIe4 is twice as fast as that. And the leap from Jaguar to Zen is at least 4 times as fast and even more than that for many specific types of workloads.
With the new consoles they could likely populate a...
@jznrpg
What you just said is so obvious. And it has been explained to this guy in a dozen ways and he still argues what is obvious. Even DF who often comes across as deep in the pockets of Microsoft is telling people it's going to hold back next gen but these guys just aren't hearing it. They have dug into the trench and they aren't leaving...
A game made for SSD and Zen wouldn't even be the same game if it was scaled back for HDD and Jaguar.
It’s not just about graphics...
There is a difference between graphical scaling and using the cpu and ssd to do things the old hardware couldn’t. 1000 npcs vs 100 a huge seamless world with out hdd loading screens and so much more.
My goodness quit pretending to not understand the difference between graphical scaling and being able to use the CPU and SSD to do things that can’t be done on the old hardware. Even the xbox brown nosers at DF are telling you this decision will limit development. If you don’t want to believe me fine but how are you going to deny people who do nothing but analyze games.
Wait I thought Microsoft was doing this for the consumers? Now your saying it's just about sales?
Ok... well Microsoft can keep on playing to the lowest denominator and Sony will move the industry forward. Won't be the first time or probably the last time.
I thought you guys didn't want to go head to head with Sony?
I feel like this whole comment was just made to spread the rumor about power...
If the Series X is more powerful than the PS5 wouldn't that be even more reason to show it off with next gen games?
Saying the platform holder is not even going to have a single next gen game at launch or for the next 2 years is far from normal.
@sampsonon
These guys can say what they want, at the end of the day I think they know that Sony is going to be the leader next gen too.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft just isn't confident they can sell enough consoles to justify a full move to next gen especially when you look at how poorly the first X actually sold. Trying to sell an even more powerful console so close to that was too much for them, especially if they have to price it above $500. ...
It's not great for consumers who are early adopters of the Series X.
Of course the flip side is the reaction of the MS fans right?
Let's be real a lot of the same people defending this are the same people who last week were saying how excited they were to see how games would use the 4x CPU power for AI and physics and were excited to see what the SSD would bring to the table. But now are saying things like "Personally I dont really care, the first couple of years in a new gen never show what the systems are capable of anyway."...
I got the first game on sale over the holiday. I really enjoyed it, I look forward to the sequel.
We'll see, this is just my guess. But I guess that if the SX doesn't sell great they will continue to put gamepass ahead of selling consoles and continue to only have one generation.
Yea, I'm still mad that they make games that don't work on my Atari 2600...
That's not how PC works unless someone is buying games directly from the Microsoft Store.
I thought we were talking about consoles...
No, that's why they are held back by old hardware.