How can that be when PS5 will have exclusives on day 1 but MS say their games will be cross-gen for the first 1-2 years?

At any rate, Hellblade 2 is the one thing tempting me to get a Series X so far, as I loved the hell out of the first game. I was thinking about getting a cheap Xbone after this gen ends to play games that never made it over to Switch like RE7 or Monster Hunter World, but considering the patterns we've seen on Switch, it wouldn't surprise me if those games eventually come to Switch 2. Heck, maybe even Hellblade 2 will.

Oh I meant HB2 might come out after the cross gen phase fizzles out on Xbox. Or it’ll be one of the last ones. Hard to tell this early. 

And I’m 99% sure Hellblade 2 will stay on Xbox/PC. The first coming to switch was just MS milking its sales on competitors due to the game being multi platform before the buyout. The sequel is made completely under MS ownership. 

I may indeed stay XBox/PC, but I dunno if I'd put the chance as high as 99% when MS is being so open with bringing its games to other platforms recently, with the likes of Cuphead and Ori making their way to the Switch. MS and Ninty seem to have a good relationship.

Absolutely fucking yes a 2080Ti does provide a generational leap in visual fidelity in games today... And that is before we even talk about resolution or framerates.
Name a console game with hardware ray tracing effects.

Consoles are the lowest common denominator.
Basically all multiplatform games are built with those low-specifications in mind.

Developers on PC don't exactly go out of their way to build games for a Core 2 Quad in 2020 and scale it up to a Ryzen 16-core, if the game works on a Core 2 Quad, then it works, if not, then it doesn't. (It just so happens that a well-clocked 13~ Year old Core 2 Quad is a good fit for Jaguars performance level.)

And often a developer won't bother to test it on old or low-end hardware, but the game will run fine on it as the games hardware demands aren't exactly catastrophic... Contrary to popular belief not all console games use 100% of the consoles power and is 1,000x optimized for that hardware set, you are going to have games which will come short and might only use a couple of CPU cores for example.

Over the years, especially when I wasn't upgrading frequently and technology was progressing rapidly. (Especially in the TnL > SM1.0 > SM1.1 > SM1.4 > SM2.0 > SM 3.0 era) developers would often drop support like a bucket of shit for those older rendering methods in favor of newer ones, rendering older hardware unable to run new games. I.E. Bioshock wouldn't support SM2.0 GPU's or Oblivion only Supporting SM2.0 and newer despite SM1.4 GPU's having more performance than low-end SM2.0 GPU's by several orders of magnitude.

Of course we are in a newer era where tech isn't progressing as rapidly in terms of hardware feature sets, so it just happens that older hardware is sticking around for longer.

But just because a developer lists an older piece of hardware in the "minimum" system requirements, doesn't mean it's actually going to be playable... Or it will only be playable at 720P, 30fps.

0% of gamers have a series X though. It's not even out... Thus making the PC ahead statistically.

Plus Steam will incorrectly track notebooks with switchable graphics, I.E. Will only include the integrated graphics and not the powered-down GPU.

It also doesn't account for multi-GPU configurations.

And of course... Steam includes all hardware, irrespective of age or form factor, if it runs Steam, it's included in the hardware statistics.

So that means it includes Netbooks, NUC's, Notebooks, Compute Sticks, IoT devices, Handhelds... You name it and not just desktop gaming PC's. (Which would obviously have higher average hardware capabilities).
And it makes sense, Steam includes games from every era and some people will be content with 2D puzzle games rather than the latest AAA shooter looter.

Every month the amount of PC's with performance equivalent to the Series X/RTX 2080 will grow from here on out... So whilst it may be 3% today, it could be triple that by the end of the year once nVidia and AMD drop it's next-gen GPU's.

The PC is constantly evolving, improving and getting faster and more capable, it doesn't stand still.

Obviously that is just your opinion and isn't representative of everyone else's needs/wants/desires.

Actually, it was a discussion. Games were added because other users made good suggestions that I may have overlooked.

I wish MS still had the 360 BC request list going. You would see MS did a great job getting the games the people were really asking for. Some didn't happen seemingly because studios rather push updated ports.

Anyway, they barely scratched the surface of what we want from OG Xbox. But what people commonly ask for is a small fraction of the library.

I get that. However those are also published games and not from officially owned studios. And indie titles which generally aren’t system sellers on their own. 

I think it could continue once the dust settles from the next gen launch. 

I know hardware is always evolving and it's only a matter of time before main stream pc catch up and high-end pc's will play next gen console games at native 4k, 60fps and a bump in graphics settings. But nobody, including MS, knows how long that will take. It's very likely that Amd and Nvidia's new mid-range gpu's will piss all over the RTX2080 Super, but it will probably depend on the prices if we'll see main stream pc's catch up quickly or not.

Like I said, my only problem with GP is that it will prevent pushing next gen graphics right out of the gate like a traditional next gen console would. In it's currents state GP is great because everybody and their grandmother has a pc that can run 99% of the games on it. That simply isn't going to be the case when the next gen consoles boasting RTX2080 gpu's will be the lowest common denominator for AAA games, at least not in the first couple of years. Most 3rd party games will be cross-gen and the big franchises that'll skip current gen like GTA, AC, BF won't be on GP from day one. Those kind of games usually come to GP years later, if at all. So the only games on GP that could've potentially pushed next gen consoles would have been MS's day one exclusives. But since MS already said their going to be cross gen for the first 2 years, that isn't happening either.

Now, maybe they will scale amazingly and we get totally different versions on Series X and Xone. But if it's just games designed with Xone as the base platform that scale up and down their family of devices like MS is saying, we could be halfway through the next gen console cycle before we finally see games on GP that were designed with next gen specs in mind. 

Console and software sales have been rapidly in decline for MS, so I totally get why they're looking for different business models like GP/Xcloud and them not trying to get in another format war with Sony and Nintendo. Especially, when they envision a future where there's no need for dedicated consoles/ pc at all, and MS is convinced they'll eat the whole pie and become the netflix of gaming.

Personally I just don't see that happening and I think their whole new focus is a shame. I would much rather have seen something like the beginning of the 360/ps3 era, where it was a neck-and-neck race and both companies were forced to compete with amazing exclusives that pushed their console to its limits. Next gen will be totally different. Because for MS, building GP subscribers will be far more important than selling next gen consoles.

MAybe some people think I'm rambling madman spouting conspiracy theories here. But don't take my word for it, I'm just quoting Phil Spencer... 

XBOX BOSS PHIL SPENCER ON THE FUTURE OF GAMING: ‘THE BUSINESS ISN’T HOW MANY CONSOLES YOU SELL’

The head of Xbox just unveiled a new console, but Phil Spencer isn’t too worried about selling you one. “I don’t need to sell any specific version of the console in order for us to reach our business goals,” he told me in an interview yesterday, the day after Microsoft held its annual E3 keynote.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/11/18661247/phil-spencer-interview-xbox-project-scarlett-xcloud-e3-2019

You keep regurgitating these same quotes into these threads as if they prove any kind of point but they don’t. You’re making assumptions and illogical reaches of judgement on their meanings and what MS plans to do. It doesn’t make it factual or correct, it just makes you seem like a conspiracy theorist.

You keep saying GamePass will prevent advanced graphics next gen but never explain how with a valid reason. High end gaming rigs aren’t the majority right now and yet there are games on GamePass that can utilize them. Scorpio is the minority when it comes to Xbone consoles and yet there are games that shine on it like Gears 5 and Horizon 4. You’re ignoring what Sony did with PS+ because it completely invalidates your argument.

Also January of 2022 is not really two years into next gen, it’s 13-14 months depending on launch. Quit acting as if MS will be making cross gen games for years. And remember that’s just the max, it could be until March of 2021 for all we know.

Goopy it’s not rocket science to think that consoles are important but not as important as bringing in gamers. Because gamers and games are where the money and engagement is. If they buy the console, all the better. Series X will make use of its power, it’s silly to think otherwise. 

Its like Sony’s way is the only way and anything open minded  or out-of-box is so strange and foreign. It all revolves around 14 studios making only core games (with more acquisitions rumoured) so really...you have no reason to actually complain.