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

[sales2099]

goopy20 said:

sales2099 said:

How do you know what kind of specs MS is targeting? I have no idea (like you) but they should be higher then Series X, and trickle down from there into the consoles. To make games for the Series X and port to PC is absurd for AAA games.

Sooo this is the narrative for the next year or so? Pretending to care about the plight of Pc gamers owning expensive PCs. All to preserve the glass cannon false confidence of fans that Sony still has a power advantage (as always ignoring 3rd party Series X advantages). 

MS is targeting the specs that would reach them the highest amount of players. That currently means a GTX1060 or lower on pc as that's what roughly 50% of the pc gamers have. And they will never push the SSD tech until 1TB SSD's and PCIe 4.0 becomes mainstream on PC. Who knows how long that will take, could be 1 year or could be 3 years.

What we do know is that games like Horizon Zero Dawn 2 and Spiderman 2 will be able to take full advantage on things like the SSD tech and Ray Tracing as Sony's developers don't have to think about their games running on a whole bunch of less capable devices. That's normally the beauty of consoles. They are a closed platform and developers can make full use of the hardware and do things that weren't possible on previous gen. I mean look at Ray Tracing. Sure, we're already seeing it in pc games where it's a toggle on/off setting. But those games were never build with Ray Tracing in mind. Who knows what they will do with it but here's a glimpse of what Ray Tracing can potentially mean for games that are designed from the ground up to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2hv2jqt-g 

“The highest amount of players” by making them for PC and scaling down all the way to base XB1. I think you are grossly misinterpreting MSs goal. Do you have any proof whatsoever on what PC specs MS is targeting? And I’d pump the brakes on your optimism...Sony doesn’t exactly have the best history with making use of launch titles ;)

Because on smaller budget titles who cares but for AAA titles, it would be bad for MS to have the Series X games look better then their PC counterpart. That’s just absurd. Fact is that they said they would make for PC first and trickle down the specs accordingly....stands to reason their PC specs are higher then PS5s.

Still have no comment on 3rd party games being superior??They only make up 90% of all Xbox and Ps game sales...no biggie right lol

Look if you acted a little humble and just doubled down on Sony’s superior 1st party portfolio I’d have a lot more respect for your faction of fans. It’s fact and I can’t argue Sony’s stellar games history. But if you insist on clinging to some misplaced hope that Ms will gimp their own exclusives because that’s the only way you can thinly preserve the “power argument” in Sony’s favour...that tells me a lot. First and foremost it’s a smokescreen for insecurity. 

To any other Sony fans reading this...do you all share this sentiment. I’m trying Really Hard to not generalize an entire fan base here. Lol 

Last edited by sales2099 - on 13 February 2020