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LudicrousSpeed on 15 January 2020
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goopy20 said:
Azzanation said:

Different strategies, simular results in the end.

So when games like God of War were made, it wasnt held back by PS4 hardware when RTX-2080 GPUs were on the market? God of War still turned out pretty and so did Gears 5, lets also add TLOU2. It doesn't seem like older limited hardware is affecting the bigger AAA game developments and companie's vision.

A good developer will create a good game regardless of console limitations and BOTW is a perfect example of that.

Games can always look better regardless if they choose to use the latest console.

That doesn't even make sense. God of War and TLOU2 were build from the ground up around the limitations of the ps4. If those games would also have been released on ps3, they would have been far less spectacular.

I mean, lets say Valve decided to release Half Life 3, and it would be completely optimized and only run on a RTX 2080 with SSD, just imagine what that would look like. Unfortunately, there are not many AAA developers left that make games that really push the latest pc hardware, instead pc gamers get the same experience as on consoles and all the extra horsepower goes to waste by simply raising the fps, resolution and some graphical setting that don't really add anything to the games. It will be the exact same thing with all of the exclusives on the Xbox SeriesX, while Sony will drop a couple of 1st party bombs that will probably make Halo Infinite look like a last gen game.   

On PS3 they would have been far less spectacular. On PS4 they would have been the same games since they were built around the limitations of PS4. We saw plenty of games this gen that were cross gen but the last gen versions were heavily neutered in ways other than graphics. Battlefield had lower player counts and modes missing. CoD had no SP. We see in sports titles they only get "legacy updates" which means nothing changes outside of rosters. Shadow of Mordor launched on last gen consoles without the Nemesis system. Titanfall had less of the Azure controlled grunts running around, even Microsoft's own Horizon 2 was essentially a different game on 360 than the Xbone version.

It's way too early to tell anything about this or get bent out of shape about it at all. The next one or two years of MGS games will be cross gen, which means it could literally just be 2020 games. And even if it spills into 2021, they could be games built for next gen in mind and then scaled afterwards to make an Xbone version possible. I mean look at what MS is doing with Flight Simulator. There is a console version planned, but they aren't gimping the PC version for the sake of Xbone. The version we get on console will just not be as advanced.

Now if we get into a later time frame than that and Microsoft is still releasing cross gen games and even the XSX versions don't have any significant advantages outside of graphics, then we'll have real issues and something worth grabbing pitchforks over.