Breaking from Sony's release cadence is their best bet. Starting with the XB1, Sony and MS are essentially forced to use the same technological foundations when designing their systems. If they are price restrained (which they are), there is only so much power available at a particular price point at any given point in time.
True. Maybe game engines simply have a lot more options available so that in itself makes things more challenging. And people expect a higher concentration of assets and new graphical enhancements in a game world. I was just in my mind thinking about say modding Skyrim. And whilst artwork for textures and meshes took time and skill. It was the guys writing scripts for missions to move NPC's around and implement mission structure that were on another level of complexity and code understanding.
AI.
Isn't that what we want, though? Thanks to chip shortages and supply chain issues affecting PS5 sales for years, games are still being developed for PS4/PS5 compatibility. I would be pretty damn disappointed to see them already moving onto PS6.
Which sounds great until you realise no-one knows what the next Xbox even means. If you know then it'd be great to share. Is it a just a store fronted high end PC, is it just a handheld, is it nothing and solely a reliance on streaming via an app? Is it even a console?
Its not going to be the traditional console that people are used to from Xbox, I would bet large sums of money on that
Yeah probably, Xbox have to at least do something different so going full next gen early is probably their only option.
Exactly, so until that takes a shape that I can see. I'm going to have to hold onto any excitement at this time.
I would love to see the "easily", but i remain skeptical
Then what's Bond talking about? It's obviously powerful otherwise you don't make comments like "invested in the next generation road map. And what we're really focused on there is delivering the largest technological leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation"
I bet we see a console/pc hybrid, essentially a PC with a console like experience which is likely expensive and a handheld for mainstream
It does, and I hope you're right. But I simply dont trust or know what Xbox are going to do from one moment to the next. I have an XSX and it would be great to have confidence in the brand again and its future. But thats not where I am with Xbox today.
Well it's powerful at least, but PC's are powerful so yeah could be right.
Sony and MS aren't promising native 4k next gen games with that printed on the box. It's just the supported output/features. Some games can be 4k native. It's even more stupid when you realise the previous gen Xbox One X had 4k printed on the box too.
4k is only 1 thing. Native.
Um, no it's not. Besides advertising hardware support means nothing in terms of releases. printing BluRay on a box doesn't mean every release is bluray and you can't get DVD only releases. Just like printing "Super Audio CD" on the box doesn't mean it's a promise that every release is on Super Audio. It just means the hardware can support that format.
Moore's Law Is Dead has been somewhat reliable over the years, but still take everything as rumor and speculation. That said, this bit caught my attention back in February:
It is. And besides that advertising that hardware supports but very few games using it is the very definition of overselling it.
When people say 4k, it's assumed to be 3840x2160 native, hence why people usually clarify if they're using DLSS or other upscaling techniques. Just like when people used to say 1080p, you'd assume native.
Yeah, yeah. And the fact that Sony removed 8k from the box means that the console doesn't support it anymore. /s
Because it actually doesn't support the 8K format that's why. It cannot output 8k. Even the native 8k PS5 game The Touryst downsamples its 8K render to 4K output.
And yet almost all games continue to have bullshit unskippable animations that mask asset loading. Anyone remembers ME elevators? WTF is this present in Legendary Edition?
Breaking from Sony's release cadence is their best bet. Starting with the XB1, Sony and MS are essentially forced to use the same technological foundations when designing their systems. If they are price restrained (which they are), there is only so much power available at a particular price point at any given point in time.
MS shooting for a more staggered release date (in relation to Sony's offerings) allows them to integrate tech that allows for meaningful differentiation. Combine that with the value proposition of getting a "next gen" console two years before the competition, it seems like a solid strategy. I imagine this move could potentially grow the percentage of console gamers who own both Sony and MS platforms.
Of course, they could also fall flat on their face and eat shit
Absolutely nobody. Especially DF of all people who have been calling for the "Post-Resolution Era" since the beginning of this gen at every opportunity. Richard saying he's going to stop counting pixels over and over.
We still got next year before you write off the entire generation and with GTA 6 we could get a true next gen masterpiece.
Guess who's possibly launching next gen early and would be pushing for this narrative?
We need more power and better upscaling in these consoles and hope we get it before GTA6 arrives
You Just described PS5 Pro and we will get that before GTA6, Hell yeah!!
