Xbox is the 87th Most Valuable Brand in the world

[Ganoncrotch]

DonFerrari said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Kinda lost interest in whataboutism and slippery slope as argument tactics on here, there's no point in discussing Star Fox 2 not coming out for the SNES in a thread about the Xbox brand power. I'd rather speak about the things that brand is doing as I was going back and forth with @Chazore in the article about this mod being dropped I was just kinda shocked because there is amazing modders on the PC side of MC who have graphics addons which made the "overly ambitious" one that Mojang were working on look shoddy and yeah... Mojang/Xbox game studios/MS effectively have infinite money and they couldn't reach out to some of that modding community and check them a 6 figure amount to come on board and give them access to Microsoft's hardware and software to build tho fan made add-ons into a "super duper" project if they couldn't do anything over the last 24 months.

Naw... they fire money at other studios instead who are already making games so that those games won't appear on other systems, rather than spending some money on what they already have, ya know.... a game which sold 176m units over all systems. It is without question the largest gaming IP that Microsoft owns and a upgrade for the graphics to that 10 year old title was deemed to not be worth completing. Crazy.

For me the only explanation for it is that they just invented an excuse because they are working on Minecraft 2 and will use the assets they developed to Super Duper. I refuse to accept they would be so incompetent that they couldn't make it even if limiting to X1X and PC.

They are masters of software design and unlike somewhere like Apple they've created both Software packages and OS's for such a wide range of hardware, you could go off and install windows server 2016 onto an intel Atom if you wanted to and strip it down to the point where you could use it as a simple DHCP server for your network if you wanted to, but I just mean that if MS can't basically set up a game to allow it to make use of 100s of GB of RAM and a 2080TI but then scale that back to someone playing on a potato with a 710 that they got off ebay by searching for "gaming PC" (honestly check that shit out, it annoys me so much that they can list those trash as gaming PC's) but yeah scaling for hardware is something the game should be able to do fine, heck even give the user some options, on the Switch disable the setting by default, offer some aspects of it like the amazing light shafts and allow users to scale what is important to them, super shiny graphics with massive draw distances, or 60fps locked. I mean on Switch already you can even choose between rendering just 4 chunks around you and scaling it out to.... I think 14 but I'm not 100% on that.

I'm just saying, this should have been a relatively easy job, especially given they've had 2 years to work on it, if someone was doing any work on this for 2 years they must have realised months ago that it was never going to be released since the internet interest dropped to the point where so little was being done on it.