A noble approach, which is also put in direct confrontation with that of Sony, which hopes to pass as many people as possible to the PS5 as soon as it is released. But, according to Phil Spencer, it would be to deny the very essence of video games. “Video games are entertainment, community, diversity, and expanding your perspectives with new stories, and I find that locking people up, preventing them from participating in these games, goes against what video games represent ».
Games “restrained” on Xbox One?
Inevitably, and beyond any strategic consideration, when we say that a game will be released on both Xbox Series X (12 teraflops) and Xbox One (between 1.3 and 6 teraflops), we are entitled to imagine that there will be a “superior” version and a “restrained” version of the same game. But the reasoning is badly brought up, corrects Phil Spencer.
« Honestly, “ flange Is a meme that is created by people who are too involved in the console war. I’m just looking at Windows. It’s almost certain that if a developer designs a Windows version of his game, then the PC version is the most powerful and the most faithful. We can even observe this with some of our first-party console games that come out on PC, or even from our competitors, that the best version is the PC version. However, analyzes the vice-president of video games at Microsoft, the PC ecosystem is the most diverse when we talk about hardware, especially when we think of all the CPUs and GPUs dating back several years that are still there ».
It is thus understood that the studios internal to Microsoft have, for a long time, integrated this principle, and will offer on the next generation of consoles a way to adapt the fidelity of the graphics to the machine on which they are launched. And Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios at Microsoft, confirms that ” the job will be to make sure that we allow players to have control. If you’re launching the game on Xbox One, is the frame rate important to you? Is visual fidelity important to you? You are given these options. And I think we will see more cases where our experience in developing PC games will be visible on consoles ».
The Xbox Series X will be available at the end of 2020. The next not-to-be-missed appointment is July 23, date on which Microsoft will lift – precisely – the veil on all or part of its catalog of gamesfirst party.
Source : Gamesindustry.biz
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