The Xbox Series X/S Official Thread

[Pimp]

Ok Microsoft might lose next gen.. Why would you release a weaker console? Just stick with your guns and make your console more powerful than Sony. Sony is building games on ps5 and it seems Microsoft is trying to cater to all. That's a failure already.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Ok Microsoft might lose next gen.. Why would you release a weaker console? Just stick with your guns and make your console more powerful than Sony. Sony is building games on ps5 and it seems Microsoft is trying to cater to all. That's a failure already.

In the long run, Lockhart is going to sell more. The games scale across the hardware. Having a next generation that can play all of the games at launch, at presumably a price point of under $299 is an instant win. It will run at 1440p or around there and simply scale up with whatever scaler is in the console. That console is about getting people hooked on the ecosystem at a low entry point.

 

[Pimp]

In the long run, Lockhart is going to sell more. The games scale across the hardware. Having a next generation that can play all of the games at launch, at presumably a price point of under $299 is an instant win. It will run at 1440p or around there and simply scale up with whatever scaler is in the console. That console is about getting people hooked on the ecosystem at a low entry point.

That's not a good idea. People will just see the ps5 as a stronger machine and it's over.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

That's not a good idea. People will just see the ps5 as a stronger machine and it's over.

The people that buy the Series S isn't going to care. Besides, we are going to see this everywhere.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is subscription based.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

The beta for crossfire x showed up on the ms store

excited for this one

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

The beta for crossfire x showed up on the ms store

excited for this one

I know next to nothing about this outside of the fact that it is popular and Remedy is making a single player component.

 

[FooFighters]

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Microsoft has basically bought a ton of the Sony people with their salaries. Can't beat them? Outspend them.



Former PlayStation and EA DICE Animator Sylvia Chambers Joins Microsoft’s The Initiative Studio

Xbox Game Studios’ The Initiative has picked up former Naughty Dog and EA Dice 3D character animator, Sylvia Chambers.

Microsoft’s Santa Monica-based first-party studio has scooped up another high-profile developer for its upcoming Xbox titles. Since the studio’s announcement two years ago, top-tier talented has been hired, including former developers on Uncharted, God of War, GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, and Sunset Overdrive.

They are spending

 

[KageDaBeast]

Welp, Insurgency got delayed

 

[Youseenmywork]

Awww shyt

 

[DPresidential]

 

[daze23]

Here’s How Xbox Games Without Smart Delivery Will Play on Xbox Series X • The Mako Reactor

Smart Delivery for Xbox Series X and Xbox One consoles is a feature lets you play the best version of the game on your Xbox One or Xbox Series X. For example, if you buy Yakuza: Like a Dragon for Xbox One, when you upgrade to the Xbox Series X, you get an enhanced version of the game at no extra cost.

Microsoft has been talking up the feature this week and what games can expect from Xbox Series X with it. Interestingly, Smart Delivery is optional and not all game developers and publishers may decide to support it. In these instances, Xbox Series X Director of Program Management Jason Ronald explained what we can expect from games that don’t have Smart Delivery support.

These games will benefit from modern day enhancements like HDR as well as a possible frame rate boost that won’t impact gameplay.

Ronald made his comments on a recent episode of Podcast Unlocked, an Xbox-focussed podcast. He also shed light that “there’s a large amount of testing” done to ensure that when a game is played on the Xbox Series X it’s as “the creator originally intended”. The Xbox Series X’s custom processor and Xbox Velocity architecture help make this possible.

“So if the game can run at higher resolutions, if it can run at a higher or more stable frame rates or if it can benefit from the faster IO speeds, we’ll go and do that,” said Ronald.

”So that not only does the game play but it plays better than you’ve seen it before and then we are continuing to advance the state of the art of how we can enhance titles at the platform level itself. With Xbox One X we developed a whole series of new techniques, one such as the Hutchy method which allowed us to kind of increase the native resolution of the title without actually making changes directly to the title.”

In addition to this, Ronald divulges that there are other techniques in the works specifically for the Xbox Series X that allow the aforementioned bump in frame rate and addition of HDR.

“We’ve invented new techniques like that so we can apply it to more titles,” he said. “We’re also looking at areas where in select titles we can actually double the frame rate without actually breaking the way the game actually plays and then we have things at the platform level like auto HDR support where we can actually retroactively apply HDR to games that were written well before HDR was even created. So even games like Geometry Wars or even Fusion Frenzy from the original Xbox that’s almost 20 years old, seeing those games running in HDR – it really brings a fresh perspective to those games.“

It’s great to know that Microsoft intends make older titles play as well as they can on Xbox Series X hardware even if they aren’t on Smart Delivery. Reason being, the current list of Smart Delivery games is on the shorter side.

 

[old pig]

shyt made @PS4 disappear for over a week

 

[Koba St]