Outer World game design are held back by PS4 and Xbox One , another prove that Next gen will be held back by current gen if games are made for cross gen

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HollyGamer said:

Azzanation said:

Switch is not slightly more powerful than the WiiU, its marginally more powerful, it has twice the ram for games for starters and faster, which I stated.

You are just overreacting on the cross-gen system. I just proved to you that if Nintendo can make amazing games using as much as 1gig of ram than their is no excuse for Sony or Microsoft using 4x as much. Zelda's world is as good as any open world game on the market and again its a cross gen game.

Developers get better at using hardware over time, just look at Uncharted 4 to TLOU2 on PS4, look at the monster jump in visuals without adding in SSD drives, or having more ram or a better CPU or GPU, they managed to improve so much using base PS4 hardware. Developers also make more efficient engines which can do more while using less. 

Best part about next gen is that you will be able to play last gen games with all the bells and whistles of next gen hardware like boosting resolution and framerates, adding Ray Tracing and just boosting the overall game settings to polish up older games even better, much like how PCs work when playing older games on newer hardware. Imagine playing Resident Evil 2 on the Series X? Imagine if they add in Ray Tracing, locking in 60fps and native 4k with Ultra settings? That alone will feel like you are playing a remaster for free.

Yup is just twice the ram and have slightly more FLOPS which is why is just slightly 

 Stop discussing games that intended made for Old gen and run on high end. That's not cross gen is. 

Cross gen games are games that made for both Current gen and next gen so stop mentioning Zelda BOTW (or like TLOU) those games are not Cross gen but games that made for old gen that ported to new gen.

No matter how good the developer is there is always limitation which is "OLD HARDWARE' . Developer cannot magically change the limitation of old hardware ". Games that are made on for both will be limited on how powerful last gen consoles is. The closer the gap between old gen and next gen the more unlikely we see bad cross gen games, but the bigger the gap is (Xbox One - Xbox Series X) the more we see games are held by Xbox One. 

That's just fact , developer ain't God that can change reality. 

Ok what’s your overall message? Its not “cross gen games are held back by the older gen” because we all kinda know that. I mean what’s the narrative you got that expands that statement? 

Because if that’s all you got then it really just serves the “my console is better then yours narrative”. And if this is the best argument against Xbox in 2020 I say Xbox is doing pretty good for THIS to be the leading argument against it ;) All moot point if the games are critically acclaimed. It’s hard to boast superiority if your consoles launch titles are lesser quality then another.

But you must acknowledge there are so many factors at play that don’t make this what you got pictured in your head (scaling and optimization). There are many examples of cross gen games that have features in the latest hardware that are cut from the older version. That alone is a nice work around to your argument. 

Last edited by sales2099 - on 19 April 2020