| goopy20 said: Why would MS invest in AAA 1st party Series X games if they can reach way more GP subscribers by not targeting high-end specs? Phil Spencer has blatantly told us that their next gen vision isn't about selling Series X boxes. Hell, they don't care if you buy one. It's about putting the gamer in the center and letting you play their games on a bunch of different devices. |
Goopy20, what you and many other people fail to understand is this is no different to those that buy into PC gaming. Majority of gamer's who invest into GPUs valued over $1k don't spend that kind of money hoping developers build games solely off those pieces of tech because they demand innovations... no they don't, What majority do is buy into high end PCs to offer the best gaming experiences. No different to what Phil is saying. To MS, its not just about console sales, its not about who sells more, its about offering options. XSX is like the high end PC for consoles, capable of many things but what its doing at launch is offering the best console experience to that audience. Why invest into a XSX? why spend $500+ on a high end console? to play the best version of those games in your living room.
No one is going to be disappointed that games with worlds the size of RDR2 or visuals like TLOU2 or gameplay like BOTW release on XSX. What the XSX will do is play those games at next gen levels, offering 4k/60fps support with added Raytracing, high quality shadows and many other bells and whistles, you know, much like what Phil is saying, just like how a high end PC play games compared to a low or mid range PCs. There will be differences, however good design games will ALWAYS be up to the developers not the hardware.
Innovation is a timed manner, not a hardware manner. Hardware obviously helps but its not everything, its always up to the design teams.
