How come Age of Empires 4 isnt coming to Xbox One if Phill cares about Xbox?

[Bofferbrauer2]

DonFerrari said:

SvennoJ said:

That's the excuse I always get when I complain about the terrible handling with a controller :p I don't know, just felt like the game didn't work with a controller, so I assume it was made for wheels with controller added as an after thought. (considering the configure it yourself options) I haven't touched it since a few weeks after release though.

TO me that seems only like a defense point. It isn't hard or strange to control the game on the controller...it just doesn't seem like a simulator. The slow down before corner, speed on appex, point to start accelerating, the grip, everything seem a little unatural and faster than you would do in a real car.

I bought the DC VR but because my setup I would be too close to the camera I haven't played much... need to. Even more because now I made the wheel work on it... I'll say it feels more real than Project Cars, and it is a arcade with very little though on simulation.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

A mouse... and keyboard shortcuts. And Macros when you can

Shadowrun game of 2008 tried crossplay between PC and Consoles in an FPS. Of course, Keyboard + Mouse trounced through the Gamepad players due to faster control and more precision, and of course same would also happen here in this game.

However, I think the reason why it doesn't release on Console is a certain technical issue: RTS, and AoE Series in particular, are pretty CPU intensive. Elaborate CPU Enemy AI, Unit AI, Pathfinding... all these things cost a lot of calculating power the old and sluggish Jaguar CPU will have a very hard time to provide. I doubt it can be made for consoles without literally dumbing it down, ie much lighter and thus weaker AIs to save on CPU processing power.

Considering many PCs would be weaker than X1 I don't think it would be impossible to port the game to it.

Don't confuse CPU Power and GPU Power. On the GPU side the XOX is definitly stronger than many, if not most Gaming PCs out there. The CPU however is a design specifically meant for Netbooks and, by extension, Ultrathins (as Intel owns Ultrabook trademark, AMD has to name them Ultrathin) and even Tablets. These where never meant to be powerful, just energy efficient. Any modern Pentium dualcore can run circles around the 8 core Jaguar because of the latter's abysmally low IPC.

If you meant the original X1, then basically every gaming PC built after 2011 is basically guaranteed to be stronger than the X1 unless they where gunning for a gameable HTPC (in that case anything after 2013), even if they never upgraded their rigs.

The majority of PCs is weaker, but that's because those are either Office PCs (which don't need much graphics apart from the bare minimum for Powerpoint) or non-gaming notebooks (which are not meant to game upon more than just browsergames)