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I saw an xbox podcast and dealer gaming and thought it was xbox related? I didn't "vet" his timeline, I dont just assume people are idiots. But after you mentioned this I perused it and it seems completely harmless? Unless enjoying/having a preference for playstation automatically means "playstation fanboy/troll" then idk what to tell you. Does it really matter though? The point I was making was based off direct quotes/words from a dev whos made a game for both PS5 and XSX
Spend a couple of seconds scrolling the timeline ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, it's blatantly obvious.
Dealers totally fine - incredibly technically oriented during the podcast and objective - enough. If you enjoy his content you should continue to follow him - I value his perspective.
Alright, well, my bad, I guess ignore the interpretation and just discuss what the dev is saying... my point still stands.
Wait people are texting John now?yeah DF said the same after ACV video, but as ever will always get lost/forgotten with certain folks... :)
You don't? I'm calling DF guys the very second my game drops a frame
"More beautiful"?yeah DF said the same after ACV video, but as ever will always get lost/forgotten with certain folks... :)
Both versions are nearly identical, plus CoD: Warzone just got upgraded to 120fps on XSX while remaining at 60fps on PS5.
If John is right and GDK is only in its early days, I would expect even bigger advantages in the future.
It's weird seeing all these reports of tearing.. playing it on a C9 there isn't any tearing at all! VRR I guess.
Compared again XSX to the game running Ultra on my rtx3080 last night (thanks Ubisoft+) and honestly you'd be hard pressed to see a difference without going in to detail. I prefer it on the XSX because there are stutters on PC as you go to new areas etc (shader compilation?) whilst on XSX it's super smooth. I also don't have to mess around with the Ubi launcher etc on XSX just to play the game lol. Loving the XSX - a PC-like experience without the hassle.
I realise games like Watch Dogs Legion will show a much bigger gap but I'm at a point where the next gen consoles are more than "good enough" that I don't feel like I need to gravitate towards playing on PC instead. It's a great feeling. Very happy for this gen.
This is super cool! I checked out the ImPOCinPlay hashtag, and I have to say, it's FILLED with Sony devs (SSM, Naughty Dog, Insomniac) and Riot devs lol. I don't know if it became like a viral thing where people in those studios saw their friends doing it so it snowballed (probably) and/or a size of the studio thing (probably), but I definitely wish I had seen more Xbox represented in that hashtag! Some of these tweets got thousands of likes.. But yea. Cool to see diversity in gaming getting a (small) boost of visibility.
Yea, interesting. Clearly consoles are doing better than ever (granted, remember, people thought consoles were gonna die in 2013). 1/3 Series S is actually a pretty impressive ratio. Expected there to be fewer Series S available, but looks like they apportioned pretty well, actually.
Crackdown Tokyo (or Japanese techno-future-fusion with American influences - maybe like the future neon San Francisco from Big Hero 6) might actually get some people excited about Crackdown again haha.
Looking at some of the prepro stuff for CD3, it was certainly going in that sort of direction. It actually looks like they wanted to kind of re-imagine the first game's worldbuilding with Shai Gen and Los Muertos (who was also shown in the announcement trailer).
I'm still one of the oddballs around here who's hoping for a new CD game. Avalanche might be a pretty plausible candidate to handle the project but then again I'm sure that MS would only greenlight it if its a pitch that focuses on the mistakes of CD3's final reception.
Still gonna go ahead and say that CD4 should be an RPG where you can choose the fate of your Agent. Like side with the agency or become a rebel would be a pretty cool touch IMO. Being a super-agent or a super-villain.
2/3 were Series X. That's not bad, looks like Series S stock - and demand - is higher than expected, as both models are sold out.
Crackdown needs to be left in the graveyard where it belongs. Still mildly annoying that Phil/Xbox wasted time and cash on that dodo.
I can see a lot of that happening (specially The Initiative game on the TGA), but for me is too early to start talking about E3.
Also, I'm not sure if it's better to combine two conferences (Xbox and Bethesda) , I'd say the best thing is to use Bethesda conference as a secondary conference to promote every Bethesda game launching on Game Pass, and show actual gameplay from Bethesda games. Some (not all) announcements, trailers and teaser could move to Xbox conference.
Phill is a huge Crackdown fan. Series isn't AAA or anything. It was always an arcadish good fun game but being on X1 and the massive delays made it a total media joke.
I don't believe it deserved all this hate thrown at it.
The "Xbox+Bethesda" wording I think is going to be used more moving forward. I think it makes sense to make a combined event. That way it doesn't feel like Bethesda is now part of Xbox' E3 event, but more like two companies that are on the same level are partnering up to make an special event every year.
Any hopes and dreams for X1/360 games that get framerate boosts like they showed with Fallout 4?
Personally, I really hope the Prey/Dishonored games get a fps boost. Arkane seems to really nail level design but all of their games are stuck at a capped 30fps on consoles.
Personally, I really hope the Prey/Dishonored games get a fps boost. Arkane seems to really nail level design but all of their games are stuck at a capped 30fps on consoles.
My Series X double framerate games wishlist:
- Gears 1 Ultimate
- Gears 2, 3, 4
- Sunset Overdrive
- GTA 5
- Forza Horizon 3
- RDR 2
- Ryse: Son of Rome
- A Plague Tale: Innocence
For me :
Kingdom Heart 3 in 4k mode 60fps
Ryse and quantum break upscale and 4k60fps
Lost odyssey 4k upscale
Ff15 60fps mode in 4k
Star Wars fallan order 60fps mode in 4k
Red dead rédemption 2 60fps mode or even juste unlock
It coule be Nice to get some Ray tracing update on older games like Minecraft, quake 2
The thing with all these acquisition talks is we assume all these independent studios who look like category fits on paper, actually want to sell out to a larger corporation. And Microsoft is not in the business of hostile takeovers.
Most of them have already come out. Still some FF titles which have yet to hit the service though.
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I don't expect too much other stuff for this month with the EA Vault being added recently. Curious what December brings. DQ11 is definitely something I'm looking forward to :)
With no X0 this year, I'm also eager to see/hear what MS will show at TGA or Geoff's show. Been a weird year so anything can happen at this point honestly.
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Yeah not surprising. I suspect we will start to see more of a difference in multiplat games over the next year+
That same dirt dev called the xsx a beast multiple times in another video interview and how he loved working with it, so yeah perceptions :), we all know the early pains devs have with new kit and dev tools, i mean even the ps5 games are having numerous glitches and bugs being posted all over, this happens with a new gen, we all know things will get better over time once all devs get a handle on tools and hardware and we will see some truly special stuff i have no doubts.
No, I don't think so. But I don't think it would be weird to show a reveal trailer in 2019 and a more in-game trailer in 2020, maybe.
Yeah, Hellblade 2 trailer at the TGA seems unlikely to me for that reason. Not sure about the Initiative's game, either.
I think a Fable trailer or a Forza trailer is more likely at TGAs.
Look at point 4 of that tweet thread, David mentioned the tools weren't lacking in the context of support for older Xboxes, and provided efficiencies for Xbox One, but didn't mention next gen Xboxs, the Twitter user mistook that for XSX. I also took the answer about tools lacking as his devs team's ability to circumvent gaps through their experience with DX, he's obviously trying to avoid any shade being thrown at Sony/MS.
Also forgot to mention David was singing praises of XSX SSD, with early tests he saw 10gb data loading in 2 seconds, (are MS underselling their SSD yeilds?), and that was very early into Dev (he was providing feedback to MS).
But yeah, seems to bring up PS5s balancing act of thermals based on usage positively, and ultimately concludes there's tradeoffs and it's mostly about how you architect your game in terms of how much you'll be able to squeeze out of these machines. I think MS having such a large resource of talent that are specifically strong with PC (ID, Coalition, BGS research teams) they'll be focused on improving tools for GDK which will position their environment favourably with multiplatform devs in the west, build a game and be able to branch out multiple different platforms from a central base. I think it's an aspect of MS next gen plan, shift the dev community towards Xbox, and if so it's a stroke of genius. The amount of consoles sold usually determines the lead platform, but if MS manage to change that as a business decision, by providing the opportunity to compose multiple versions from the same core (inc cloud version), reducing potential costs of having to create individual builds per environment, I could see publishers being extremely keen on integrating that change. And that means more devs trying to innovate with XSX, to push it as much as they can as a priority. Let's see how this plays out.
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I would be happy to some HB2 gameplay, but IDK if it's something TGA's showrunners would go for this year.
Might be good opportunity for Everwild to flaunt it's might again.
I was saving it for the x as well. I figured just the loading would be a game changer.
No they are not. That's about what they stated on the spec sheet. It is 4.8gb/s compressed which is ~10gb in 2 secs.
Considering that they are still unsure about the direction of the game, another Everwild trailer is probably unlikely. I think Microsoft probably learned their lesson with the Halo debacle and they're unlikely to show games in early development from now on.
Personally, I'm hoping for a surprise Starfield trailer at TGAs. It's likely the closest (soon-to-be) Microsoft's 1st party game bar Halo. After all the negative press about how XSX is a great console that doesn't have any exclusives, Microsoft will want to correct that narrative as soon as possible. If Starfield isn't at TGAs, then I expect a Wolfenstein 3 trailer (or whatever MachineGames is working on.) Bethesda may not be part of Microsoft officially yet, but nothing would stop them from putting out trailers as an independent publisher with "available on XSX/S and PC" at the end.
Yup I see too many new xbox users.
They need to reassure on this point. Especially since the stocks will be present again at early 2021, they need to have a very good offer.
By this logic, they shouldn't even show games launching in 3 months, as Halo was. I'm pretty sure if they're confident something is going to please fans and turn heads, they'll show it, no matter when it's coming out.
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