"I have a launch Xbox One. I'm not concerned about them making an upgraded Xbox One, because there's no reason at this point to believe games won't simply scale accordingly, especially when they're sharing even more architecture than ever with the PC versions."
perhaps I've oversimplified things in my head but this is exactly how I'd see it too. The XOne could have multiple versions, and the game could have settings that default for each version, much in the same way that PC games have sliders for their various performance-related settings.
Wouldn't this extend the life of the generation significantly? If the user-base is only soft-split in terms of people still being able to play a game, but just with different output quality settings depending on whether they have an 'Xbox One Point Two' or an 'Xbox One Point Three', then I don't see this as any kind of a 'betrayal' of the user base as some seem to be suggesting...
...perhaps how people would feel about that would be a reflection of their individual economic willingness to pay and emotional connection to the value of what they've already bought being de-valued by the release and sale of an improved version?
@rafaelfc: Yeah I can see that. I could say the same for a PS4 at this point seriously. I can name 1 game that has been worth owning a PS4 that is not on PC too: Bloodborne...and that was a huge letdown for me personally. I would also go as far as to say that before the end of the year, we will start hearing that PS4 exclusive games are being developed for PC too and eventually sold on their own PC plateforme "à la" Steam, Uplay an origin. In fact, I would even go further and say that they don't have any choice at this point to go this way too. That's where the majority of players is and it's not gonna change.
Yep - basically this. I had been telling myself I'd wait to get the other console that I don't own once a) it had enough interesting exclusives and b) the cost was low enough. Well I recently inherited a sizeable sum of money which eliminates b) entirely as a factor for me and I still feel no motivation at all to buy the console I don't own.
I have enough with my existing console and my pc. If there's something down the line that improves the value of what I have even further, then great.
I think there is a worse case than the one where this plan goes wrong and it is the one where this plan isn't attempted.
If (and it is a BIG if) it is possible to make increments to the Xbox hardware in a russian doll kind of way, where every improved increment can run everything that worked with the former increment via emulation of some kind then that seems like a laudable intention. Even if there are questions about splitting the user base, at some point user bases are always split and if you think of PC/Xbox gamers as just one big user base, then how it subdivides could become moot.
My PC and my console are interchangeable and sit next to eachother in my living room anyway. The more that they can talk to eachother and be useful together the better.
Farcry 3 felt like a struggle to stay motivated by (especially past the mid-game point), and 4 felt like it made the good parts about 3 better and the bad parts worse.
So I haven't been expecting much from Primal.
The quick look almost completely turned me off this game and the review seems to back it up even further that this is an AVOID title.
2014 was one of the poorest years in video games in the last decade and DA:I's general reception as as 'good game' is largely a reflection of how mediocre the releases that year generally were.
It also had an epic narrative and the scale of it was massive (rivalling a bethesda sized gameworld). These things were impressive, even if the gameplay and some of the plot and characters were a bit lacking.
Perhaps most importantly, it was finished, relatively stable, and it wasn't a remaster. For 2014, that was enough to make it shine. I liked the game and considered it to be a top 10 game for that year but I haven't gone back to it for DLC and I doubt I'd ever replay it.
Austin, this is hands-down one of the most interesting and well written analysis articles written on this site that I've ever read. The style is reminiscent of listening to a great pub discussion on the subject and I want to buy you another drink so that you continue your thoughts on it all...
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