Should Halo Infinite drop Xbox One and go Scarlet exclusive?

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Mr Puggsly said:

Look at Switch, in practice much of its content looks like 7th gen games. Yet its doing fine running Witcher 3 and I credit that to Switch having plenty of RAM compared to 7th gen consoles. I get the impression bringing Witcher 3 to Switch was easier than Witcher 2 to 360. The advent of dynamic resolution also helps Im sure for performance.

RAM capacity is definitely Switch's biggest advantage over PS3/360, and it does make game development a lot easier, but let's not overlook the advantage of running a GPU 10 years more advanced, which also helps a lot. That's how you get a lot of Switch games running much of the same current gen rendering tech as PS4/Xbone games, stuff that the ancient DX9 era cards in PS3/360 wouldn't cope with. Saves devs the trouble of having to redesign effects and such, you can just turn the settings down instead.

Pemalite said:

 

The potential of any game is always held back by the hardware of a previous generation, this is an issue the PC has been dealing with for years... And whenever a new console generation hits and the old platforms phase out... Games start taking massive leaps as the baseline has moved up a notch.

Halo 5 was limited by hardware though on the visual front, which I feel might have impacted some other decisions in the games design like Physics effects. - In saying that, Halo 5 released relatively early in the Xbox One's life cycle... So we can assume it doesn't make the best use of the consoles hardware anyway... Infinite will likely leverage the base Xbox One's relatively anemic hardware more effectively.

Speaking of hardware, on the CPU side what kind of leap are we most likely looking at going from the Jags in the Xbone to the Zen 2 in Scarlet? 4 times the performance? 5 times? 10 times?

Last edited by curl-6 - on 12 July 2019