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They should charge 70/80$ for this game.

First Samsung then LG.

Was expecting this in last night wire episodes.

There are several other more important business flight simulator is making besides just pleasing casual gamers.

Can we have one please?

Star Wars Squadrons run at native 4K120fps on Series X tho.

@Trmn8r Not a single game, not even optimised titles like Gears 5, FH4, AC Valhalla, Watchdog Legions etc are using Velocity Architecture. Since Microsoft’s next-gen development environment called Gamecore is not even ready yet (in beta), these games are still developed on the ERA with some RDNA2/Dx12U features like VRS Tier 2, Directx Raytracing. In order to use Velocity Architecture, developers need to design/write the games using the newer DirectStorage API from scratch which is only recently revealed and will also be leveraged by Nvidia’s 3000 series GPU. According to recent interview of Jason Ronald in Iron Lords Podcast, expect true next-gen titles to be hitting not earlier than second year. He said he knew lot of unannounced titles. Due to pandemic, lot of development work has been delayed (for ex Mo-Cap etc). Only games that were still under early development would likely suffer.

And this is not even using Velocity Architecture.

Goes to show he’s one of, if not the most open minded leader in the gaming industry to honestly talk about these things. How things ended up, it’s almost worth making a documentary on.

Insignificant, short term anti-consumer deals like this doesn’t really matter in the long run. Microsoft has moved on now from doing these time limited primitive minded deals and instead focusing on long term vision in building the best ecosystem.

Deadmau5 is a legend.

Breathes new life into old titles.

When you have untrained low wage people working in the supply chain. They can’t even match the unique SKU IDs defying standard protocol, let alone ignoring the obvious difference in names.

Moon Studios as usual with a very talented engineering team. They have done a lot of custom engine work for Switch port and now this.

Microsoft should not let go of this talent.

2 Polish studios. Domino effect.

@carlos82 That doesn’t really make sense. APIs like XVA are only there for writing the next-gen games using the decompression block, texture compression algorithms like BCPack and overall designing the levels more optimised for better random access I/O of SSDs (for ex without the need store redundant assets on nearby sectors of HDD). But the whole 12 channel thing is already there at hardware architecture level and the RAW speed of each modules were supposed to make a difference (atleast according to the past claims of fanboy journalists) or otherwise it’s just a diminishing return.

Native 4K, 120FPS

Finally the HDMI 2.1 TV users can enjoy the privilege.

@Fenbops No the ps5 can still load faster than ps4 pro enjoying the RAW internal SSD speed bump. The same is with Series X backcompat games which are not optimised for SSD decompression and it’s Velocity Architecture but can still load faster than One X due to huge RAW SSD speed bump.

@carlos82 It doesn’t work that way. Both PS5 and Series X backcompat titles are enjoying the RAW SSD speed without even any DirectStorage/Velocity Architecture (for Xbox) SSD decompression/optimisation.

@Fenbops While the PS5 is just emulation of a ps4 pro isn’t it? No it is NOT, atleast in storage department as it enjoys the double the RAW SSD speed before even any optimisation.

@carlos82 Few months ago a Sony dev has confirmed in a podcast that there’s absolutely no real reason as to why a tech demo like R&C won’t run on Series X.

@Medic_Alert Did you see the video? They running games on the gamechanger internal SSD.

@carlos82 Did you forget how the “fanboys” and “journalists” chest thumping about the gamechanger double RAW unoptimised SSD I/O speed difference? Now those same people are claiming on Twitter about how loading speeds suddenly don’t matter now.

I still remember how a 🦄 troll account in wccftech posts in every articles about how ps5 has better and efficient software when now that the cat is out of the bag, you can already see the diminishing return (in cost).

A lot of people are also claiming how these titles don’t have patches but the whole idea of backcompat is not about that to begin with. Microsoft also has DirectStorage API which is a part of Velocity Architecture in its upcoming Gamecore next-gen development platform. In all fairness, when the backcompat games do get patches, Series X will also run at locked 60fps with better resolution, 16x anisotropic filtering (another fps hog) and auto HDR.

Calling spade a spade, Microsoft has done an incredible amount of job with not just a very balanced hardware but also a more efficient and optimised backcompat software layer along with laying grounds for next gen Gamecore development platform, DirectX 12 Ultimate API and all the next-gen optimisation features that are part of Velocity Architecture.

@Peach64 Apples and oranges. This is a Walmart ad meant to show their history of selling Xbox consoles at retail not Microsoft telling their rich Xbox history by themselves.

@Dezzy70 It will be interesting to see if this game will be 70$ for next-gen consoles.

@Bmartin001 It’s a part of EA Access program so it depends on how long that partnership lasts.

Microsoft's vision of a more gradual evolution in gaming as opposed to the generational, revolutionary shift Sony is aiming for with PlayStation 5.

Hard to believe Eurogamer putting a review without seeing through the obvious marketing gimmick mindshare and false narrative.

Microsoft made investments at right places and right reasons, future proofing the hardware for a long console life cycle.

So this symbol will show up after you update Cyberpunk to next-gen version.

Good to see they are focusing more on global launch this time instead of only North America .

Microsoft did a good job in pushing flagship TV manufacturers to adopt HDMI 2.1 standard way early.

@Beermonkey It already hits native 4K on X1X and looks really good. It needs framerate upgrade.

@SpacemanJupiter As this hasn’t been upgraded for next-gen hardware yet, the old animations cannot work properly with such speed.

@PhhhCough “As reported by TechRadar, Projekt Red has confirmed that the free upgrade will be available to owners of the base game, so you don't have to grab the GOTY edition or any other bundles.“
https://www.windowscentral.com/witcher-3-wild-hunt-get-ray-tracing-free-upgrade-current-owners

@Luigi_Skywalker Yes Safari doesn’t support VP9 codec (only HEVC) for 4K/8K youtube playback. Hopefully AV1 will solve the issue.

Some errors are good.

Native supersampling will be used extensively until a DLSS alternative is ready. This game is rich in effects, art, lighting, physics yet easily misunderstood to be simple in rendering performance.

I’m very excited to see how next gen optimisations like VRS Tier 2, Sampler Feedback and Mesh Shading make use of every last bit of juice in next-gen titles.

@sikthvash They have outsourced the work to another team.

Now this is funny!

Waiting for the free Series S|X upgrade coming in few weeks.

Gamepass is turning out to be a great value proposition especially in these times. Things are only making Phil look like a great visionary and foreteller.

@StonyKL I read some private PS (and maybe other gaming) chatrooms was really infamous for things like planning terror attacks and recruitment cuz they weren’t like general messaging platforms which would get noticed rightaway. But no idea if they were p2p or encrypted at that time.

Hope they implement end-to-end encryption for privacy concerns.
Then again we all knew what the PSN chat rooms were used(abused) for! 😏

@Only1PJA Yeah definitely Rock is the biggest star of all.

@Only1PJA Snoop Dog too.

Don’t fix what’s already the best, driving the cost.

This was such a pro-consumer move with a really open minded approach.

“wH0 pLAY$ olD gaM3z” in ya face! 🤮🦄