We know that Halo will release as a multi gen game. In doing so the Xbone will be holding back the full potential of what Infinite could be. 343 stated that this will be a years long project that will be updated as time progresses. That all sounds fine to me, but the thing I have been wondering is will 343 cut off support for the xbone version of the game at some point so they can focus on doing bigger things on the series x? Let’s say there’s a content drop for the next campaign addition, could it be exclusive to the series x? Could the series x be getting more graphical upgrades as time goes on beyond RTX support, or more complex additions to the open world experience that simply could not exist in the xbone version? What do you guys think?
That is entirely possible and is not uncommon. I mean, Destiny did that when it was cross-gen with the 360. it was supported until the Rise of Iron expansion, where anything after was not on the 360 or ps3. The same thing may happen here and I am fine with that.
As for upgrades, it honestly depends on if the engine is as flexible as they claim. if it is, ya they can implement better graphical systems, AI systems, etc. It just depends on the engine’s limitations and how easy it is to work with it. I am worried on that front as there are some rumblings its just another taped together Blam engine which apparently is awful to work with
I think the “last gen is holding Infinite back” argument is overblown. Games developers have had to make games optimized for a range of PC hardware for ages, it shouldn’t be too hard to make Infinite optimized for the better components of the XSX vs. the Xbox One.
That said I wouldn’t be surprised if content released a year or year and a half from now would be Xbox Series X exclusive.
I did not know that about destiny, I’m glad to hear there is some precedent for this. If that is true about the engine being a further bastardized version of Blam! that would be very disappointing. It goes against everything 343 claimed about the goals of the new engine, number one being that it needed to be easy to work with so they could quickly add more content to the game. This made even more sense considering the road map for this game is 10 years long and would need a constant flow of content to keep people invested. I hope this isn’t true.
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> I think the “last gen is holding Infinite back” argument is overblown. Games developers have had to make games optimized for a range of PC hardware for ages, it shouldn’t be too hard to make Infinite optimized for the better components of the XSX vs. the Xbox One.
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> That said I wouldn’t be surprised if content released a year or year and a half from now would be Xbox Series X exclusive.
Right now i’m fine with this logic and I agree 100%, infinite is perfectly inline with any current gen and i’m sure next gen game. My main concern is that this game will be the Halo we have for the next 10 years. As tech progresses for next gen games xbone will absolutely hold infinite back as more and more compromises need to be made to keep both versions of the game the same content wise where the scope can not be expanded on because xbone can’t handle the load.
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> > I think the “last gen is holding Infinite back” argument is overblown. Games developers have had to make games optimized for a range of PC hardware for ages, it shouldn’t be too hard to make Infinite optimized for the better components of the XSX vs. the Xbox One.
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> > That said I wouldn’t be surprised if content released a year or year and a half from now would be Xbox Series X exclusive.
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> Right now i’m fine with this logic and I agree 100%, infinite is perfectly inline with any current gen and i’m sure next gen game. My main concern is that this game will be the Halo we have for the next 10 years. As tech progresses for next gen games xbone will absolutely hold infinite back as more and more compromises need to be made to keep both versions of the game the same content wise where the scope can not be expanded on because xbone can’t handle the load.
If it does get to that point I wouldn’t doubt that Xbox would move content to XSX exclusivity
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> We know that Halo will release as a multi gen game. In doing so the Xbone will be holding back the full potential of what Infinite could be. 343 stated that this will be a years long project that will be updated as time progresses. That all sounds fine to me, but the thing I have been wondering is will 343 cut off support for the xbone version of the game at some point so they can focus on doing bigger things on the series x? Let’s say there’s a content drop for the next campaign addition, could it be exclusive to the series x? Could the series x be getting more graphical upgrades as time goes on beyond RTX support, or more complex additions to the open world experience that simply could not exist in the xbone version? What do you guys think?
Its possible. The problem is that the engine is set at this point, an engine that was limited from the start to work on an 8 year old box. It will get some minor improvements but without major overhauls to the engine once they drop old gen? I don’t see it coming anywhere even remotely close to their Slipspace trailer from 2 years ago. Gameplay, visuals or ambition. I just don’t see it happening based on what they’ve shown. The engine is barely capable now.