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

[Mr Puggsly]

Nu-13 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Do you really feel AC Unity lived up to their vision? Absolutely not. Achieving a vision is not just about the hardware. Its also resources and deadlines.

I dont think the crowds was too much for 8th gen hardware, instead its the optimization wasnt there nor a good use of resources from a gameplay perspective. Later AC games were better optimized in general, still pretty dense with NPCs, but could also spend resources elsewhere.

Developers were arguably more experimental last gen with inferior specs. This gen many played it safe instead pushing visuals and more open world games. It was like gen 7.5 not because limited specs, but because it was safe from a development and sales perspective.

Series X will probably be $499 at best. That's my guess, which also tells me we need Lockhart at $299. I hope that happens, I think it would put MS in good place competitively.

Again, Series X could have fantastic visuals even while sharing a game with X1. A game like Crysis 3 demonstrated that between PC and PS360.

As I said before, Lockhart doesn't exist until MS officially says so. But speaking of this hypothetical sku, if it's purpose is to run the same games in 1080p, it would still require the same cpu; equal/a little less ram and only the gpu would be significantly weaker (and cheaper). Under those conditions, how could it possibly cost $200 less? Only $100 less is more realistic. And if there is a lot less ram and weaker cpu to the point where $200 less is possible, it would be a completely different system. If games aren't made for it and scaled up on series x, it would require downporting from series x instead.

Yeah, the only option that makes some sense is a $100 cheaper version that doesn't need devs porting games to it and sells to those that don't want/care for 4k.

Ideally Lockhart would have mostly the exact same specs as Series X. I feel the easiest compromises would be about 1/3 of GPU power (4TF vs 12TF), no disc drive and perhaps they can use less storage space depending on the expected size of games. Maybe they would sell it at a loss given digital reliance.

But maybe it wont happen at all.