Phil Spencer Says Xbox Series X Games Aren't Being Held Back By Xbox One

[DonFerrari]

goopy20 said:

DonFerrari said:

Goopy, the point you miss is that if you want to cut enough it could even work on PS2, even if a port of "similar" game. And definitively with the right cuts it could work on PS4. The question we don't know because we haven't seem enough is if that version would be worthwhile, and considering how good the Spider-Man in PS4 is and they could use those version of the assets and just ignore all the improvements made for PS5, is that it most probably would and any reason for it to not release on PS4 isn't technical (PS4 holding it down to an impossible downgrade on PS5) but commercial, forfeiting revenue on the sales of Miles Morales in exchange for a reason to buy PS5 and earn royalties from the 3rd party games sold on it.

I understand what you're saying but any game can run on any platform with the right cuts. I'm sure Ratchet & Clank would work on ps4 if it didn't have the portal jumping thing but then it would have been a different game. We definitely need to see more but from I can make out, Spider Man MM seems to have much denser graphics, a better sense of speed and it will probably have some other tricks up its sleeve. 

Could be, but that is speculative. On graphics itself there doesn't seem to be anything that impacts severely by making a PS4 version. Load times can still exist for PS4 version we are used to it, and speed of the gameplay doesn't need to change since it was accepted on the previous title.

If we see gameplay and it looks like it couldn't be done on PS4 (hardly) then I may change my opinion on it. I find great that they are making a PS5 version and that it looks better than just a BC improvement, will buy it because I liked the first game and will buy PS5 anyway, but don't see technical reason for no PS4 version.