The console war is over

[COKTOE]

yvanjean said:

COKTOE said:

As I've mentioned in the past, over and over again, I fear for the industry in regards to Microsoft's general success. Be it Gamepass, or whatever other endeavour. I don't trust them as shepards of the industry, and eagerly anticipate details on what exactly the type of product Halo Infinite will be. I bet one can of Coke that once it's fully rolled out, graphical fidelity will fade into the ether as a hot topic. To be supplanted by.....what? We'll see. One way or the other. I certainly have my suspicions.

I think the Halo Infinite graphical backlash is entirely dumb. If the game is amazing, story appealing and you having a blast playing; then I can forgive a few pop-in and not having the best grass graphic in the industry. Moving to open world and having to locked 60 FPS is key to Halo infinite and if the price is slightly downgraded graphic, I'll take that trade-off. The community obsession with Graphic is why we don't get more games with locked at 60 FPS. Assassin Creed Valhalla should be locked 60 fps but Ubisoft knows that the general public is graphic snobs and will always push for a higher graphic fidelity with a slower frame rate because that is what sells more games.

The best game I've played last generation is Zelda: Breath of the Wild this game alone throws all the graphics snob argument out the door. Halo Infinite is going to be an amazing experience. I think 343 is constantly going to be working on the graphic, so eventually, Xbox series X will deliver the polish the general public expected on Day 1. But, regardless I think playing is believing... I love the direction that 343 took with Halo Infinite. I just replayed all the old Halo games, the last one being Halo ODST, boy does this have me excited for the possibilities of an open world Halo game. 

The main argument against getting an Xbox Series X over a PS5 is that game will be held back and it won't take full advantage of next-gen graphic. But, I look forward to playing with my nephews and two of them are still rocking the OG Xbox one and Xbox one S. Also, once I upgrade to Series X, I'm happy knowing that they will still get lots of mileage out of my Xbox one X. Ps5 locked ecosystem is the main reason I intend to wait a few years before ever considering picking one up. This is a complete reversal of 2013, were Sony mocked Xbox for how to share games.  

I mean, I can understand the backlash. Marquee launch title. Powerful new hardware. TONS of rhetoric from the platform holder responsible for it that built-up expectations. However, as I said in a thread with the trailer in 4k, I think it looks fine, more or less for the reasons you stated. Again though, I can see why the reaction garnered a fair amount of negative responses.