MS: 1st party Xbox games will be cross-gen for "next year, two years"

[Mr Puggsly]

Radek said:

HollyGamer said:

And you ignores missing features on 8th gen games because of 7th gen.

Games are often held back with cross gen or without cross gen, but cross gen are the primary reason and the most to be blame , this is the truth when you counted all games that has been released since video games era. 

Every games you mention are looks great on 7th gen but looks crap on 8th gen. That's the bad thing of cross gen. The scaling up is very bad it hampered the game design for next gen capabilities. 

The reason why BF4 great because it was made for 8th gen and scaled down for 7th gen. This won't happen with Microsoft current policy on parity quality across the platform. Also it will require one games to be ported and made by several team for 8th gen . Just look at Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox 360. And the result is still bad for Xbox One port, but decent for Xbox 360. 

After i saw Hell Bled 2 demo for Xbox series X exclusives , i believe this is the result of  next gen tech from Xbox series X. 

graphic and performance will also be held back by old 8thy gen, especially when game now utilize machine learning to improve graphic.

SSD is not just marketing buzz, it's really affecting game design for future. We have been stuck in HDD since PS3 era. And it's not just about loading time and streaming data. 

I don't think there's a point arguing, everybody except fanboys knows it's the true, even John from Digital Foundry said so, but some of people just don't want to admit it, I'm giving up arguing as well.

Even John essentially said games can be retooled to take advantage of newer specs and have another team reworking it for another platform.

It also depends on the project we are talking about. A typical action and narrative driven games like Hellblade 2 may work fine on X1 with scaled back assets.

If Forza 8 vastly increases CPU demands so for Series X, it possible the X1 version could drop to 30 fps to free up resources. Maybe Forza 8 would just share visual assets but run on a different engine. Like Forza Horizon 2's cross gen.

Hence, you only looked at John's words that fit your narrative. Not all the possibilities.