Should Halo Infinite drop Xbox One and go Scarlet exclusive?

[DonFerrari]

GaoGaiGarV said:
Should they ditch low settings on PC in favor of ultra settings?
> No!

Should they ditch a Xbox One version of Halo Infinite in favor of a Xbox Scarlet version?
> No!


Honestly i see no benefit in ditching the Xbox One version from a technical standpoint.
New console generations aren't that much more powerful compared to their previous generation as they used to be in the early days. You could never downgrade a Playstation 1 3D game to a SNES in a playable fashion. But you can very much downgrade current gen games like Doom or Wolfenstein to Nintendo Switch without losing too much of their vision. Or think about Rise of the Tomb Raider. A stunning looking game when it was released and yet it was possible to run on a Xbox 360.
Architectures of modern machines are very similar, so you don't have to rewrite huge parts of your engine to appease the specific hardware and modern engines are very scaleable too.
If developers target 4k resolutions and 60fps on the new console generation it will be even easier to downgrade them to current gen by simply halfing the framerate and quarter the resolution or go even lower, aside from lowering the overal details, because a lot of the extra power will be wasted for that.


So no, ditching the Xbox One version would be an absolutely dumb move because it would make no sense from a technical standpoint and would only limit the audience and the possible sales of the game.

It's a hyperbole, but since PS1/N64 are capable of 3D graphics, you could make working ports of even TLOU2 or most games that will launch in 2020 onwards.

It will look like shit, but you can make that port.

That doesn't mean that having a better baseline will allow more potential for the game development.