That's a good question.
When Bungie went 3rd party MS had contracted something called, "right of first refusal," although I don't know if it still exists today. This agreement stipulated that if Bungie was going to make a new IP, that they had to pitch it to MS first and let MS decide if they were interested in publishing it. So we know that MS at the very least refused to publish Destiny... and now we know why.
Right of first refusal:...
I saw this coming four years ago when I quit. They kept ramping up non-gaming elements and stripping hours. They were treating their employees like slaves, giving them ultimatums that would cost them their jobs, and forcing them to engage customers like a heckler at the fair.
Sad, but I hope they get what they deserve. I don't even like to shop there anymore.
@ yomfweeee
Kornholic says the Pro has a better framerate. I don't agree because it's so minimal of a difference it's not worth bragging about. There's only one scene, for 2-3 seconds, where the 1x dips by only 3 frames from an otherwise flawless 60FPS (the one part of the game Pro performs better on), so I did mention it in my OP. What are you going to do next though, count blades of grass? Grow up.
Yeah, I know. I addressed that in my post with the comment about framerate. Observation isn't your strong suit, is it?
The narrator actually says the 1X version is near perfect 60FPS with better shadows, filtering, and resolution. The only place he found with any frame drops for the 1X was the one demoed in the video comparison, and it went down to 57 for 2-3 seconds.
I have to think that they're doing something quite different this year, starting with the setup being in MS' building where no one has a clue what's being set up. Will DXR show up on XB1 consoles? Will it be new studio announcements? New/back catalog IP? 3rd party contracts for 1st party IP? Just timed exclusives?
I'd like to think that they sucked last year so they could knock it out of the park this year, but we'll see how much their words mean. Th...
If this is headline is true though, why do I hear the same thing every year? MS "could be in trouble" since the XB1 launched and they're still successful. SoT is doing well in spite of the reviews and sparse content too.
Only thing I agree with is that MS needs to mean what they said when they told us they, "were focusing on games once the 1x released." MS will never compete with Sony unless they have more choices and diversity and they do need to...
Thanks to destiny1080 below for this link:
https://youtu.be/xuKpA2iORd...
Why do people disagree with facts all the time???
@ disagrees
MS knew about DXR and the 1X at the time they were testing out raytracing on the XB1:
https://www.gamespot.com/ar...
Facts are much harder to deal with than disagreeing with them out of ignorance though. DXR will come to the XB1 family... you'll see!
I hope they can optimize the XB1 version a bit. It's not bad, but the framerate in the comparison videos dropped to the high 20's at times while all other versions are stable at 30.
Glad to hear you're enjoying it that much and that the sales are strong too! I didn't even bother with Primal (No map editor/Shangri-La gameplay) but I'm planning on getting 5 soon; Far Cry is one of my favorite franchises so I'll be on board of the DLC Season Pass as well. Viet Nam, Sci-Fi, and Zombies all sound awesome... ESPECIALLY if they're satirical like the Blood Dragon spin-off was!!!
@ Gamer Zero
It runs at the hardware level on Xbox GPU's.
Next Gen needs to focus on physics because the pretty graphics upgrades have done nothing to improve what we've been able to do for decades already with physics. Half-Life, Battlefield, Red Faction, Far Cry 2, and others demonstrated great physics that are better than that seen in most games today.
Nvidia demonstrated their physics simulation over the last year or so and that's where gaming needs to go, IMO, before more effort is out into 4K/60. This is where I&...
You sound really ridiculous.
You're probably right about memory bandwidth, but the dual GPU setup is slightly less efficient than a single GPU would have been too. I don't know though, something does seem off when you put the numbers together like that.
The question I have is: Why do they call the Pro's patch a 4K patch? It's dynamic 1440p. Even the 1X version is dynamic 4K which is stretching the truth a little.
So glad that SoD2 features coop because I really wanted to do that in the first game. Undead Labs is looking on point with this one; I hope MS picks them up to broaden their 1st party studios.
Hey, nice work on incorporating all the modern elements like physics and lighting. Do me a favor though; don't hide the real ending in a wall and force me to play the whole thing over again because I didn't find it!
I stopped in because it caught my eye. IMO, one of the cooler special edition consoles from Sony but the controller needed more fine detail on the handle to match the console better; It's lines are too thick for my tastes.
AO Tennis? Are there wardrobe malfunctions?