Licensing will do that for you. At least you’ll be able to still play it, unlike Crew.

I guess we’ll see one or two games do this every 1-2 years, and I think that’s actually fine. Baldur’s Gate 3 did it but in the end optimising for Series S improved it for everyone. Alan Wake 2 devs said it was hard to fit things into Series S memory but they got there in the end and even delivered a 60 FPS mode. Even Immortals of Avuem got it working at 60 FPS for Series S.

It sucks for the devs for sure and they should leverage it to get some concessions from Microsoft for making them do all the hard work. Maybe a smaller platform fee, or partial funding.

I was so confused by the trailer. What exactly is this game lol

30 FPS and heavy motion blur put me off. Maybe it was just how it was recorded/presented in the stream I guess.

Big if true

They worked on both their engine and Starfield. I just hope now the next games don’t require too much engine work (since it was anyway designed around segmented maps of Oblivion and Fallout 3) and can ship games at a faster cadence.

AI is going through an “there’s an app for that” phase. 2-5 years from now we’ll see where AI actually makes most sense.

Unless you’re Nintendo of course.

Xbox has tried very hard to convince you to play their games on anything but the Xbox. Cloud? Sure. PC? Sure. PS5? Sure. Switch? Most definitely.

CPU vs GPU tasks I suppose.

I think they set the target of 21M but sold 20.8M. Almost achieved would be more fitting.

Are you sure both weren’t running at 60 for you?

Weren’t they gaslighting Xbox players that the modes are working fine?

One day

I wonder how good does the Matrix awakens demo runs with 5.4

I wonder if shadows in unreal engine take different code paths on PS5. Or if the version is updated on PS5 vs PC/Xbox. Or maybe the settings for Xbox aren’t reworked in a while and there’s enough legroom to enhance it further.

Regardless it’s interesting to see Xbox games routinely being a bit better on PS5. Sony was afraid Xbox may downgrade the games during ABK trial but we actually see the opposite here lol.

Yeah looks like

I think the engine would matter a bit less for TES/FO if they’re following the same map design. Starfield was just way too ambitious and poorly designed for the engine they had. Potato physics and object permanence is good but seamless streaming and no loading screens is much better for a space exploration game. For TES/FO, all that object permanence leads to good environmental story telling and useful loot around dungeons if done well, but at this point Todd knows how they are gonna screw it up this time.

I wonder if MSFT would build an Xbox app that emulates Xbox, 360 and Xbox One on PC, making it possible to circumvent the need of cross saves/cross progression of older games. Currently it is annoying that you can’t just pick up a game on Xbox and continue playing it on your handheld gaming device for most games.

I’ve played the first one and while I enjoy 60 fps, this game is okay at 30, being so slow and all about cinematics and echoes.