Why is everyone surprised?
Microsoft's Engineers On Xbox One: "We Purposefully Did Not Target The Highest End Graphics."
"We targeted it more as a broad entertainment player."
From a rather massive article on Engadget, showcasing the making of Microsoft’s newly announced Xbox One, comes a most interesting snippet – that Microsoft purposefully didn’t target the “highest end graphics” when building the console.
It’s in the video, so you’ll have to sit through a 20 second Windows 8 advert before you can skip to the bit (about 5:40), but it’s there. “We purposefully did not target the highest end graphics. We targeted it more as a broad entertainment player.”
Picked up by GAF, it’s a strange claim to make in a promotional piece, and whilst that way of thinking worked for Nintendo with the original Wii, up against the way Sony are marketing the PS4 as a real powerhouse it’s a baffling quote.
Note that nobody’s claiming that the PS4 is technically better, just the choice of words.
No doubt the console is capable of great things – visually too – but from what we’ve seen today (and echoed around the internet) perhaps Microsoft’s new console is going to have to flex its muscles a little harder than some thought before the conference kicked off.
We’ll know come E3, when we’ll get chance to test the games first hand.
Source: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/05/21/microsofts-engineers-on-xbox-one-we-purposefully-did-not-target-the-highest-end-graphics/
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