Recent content by iroboto

Haha you’re right wrong language on my half. It’s a big risk for a big reward if you can claim all devices moving forward. But not necessarily understandable because they are far from making it. A mad sprint at the start of the race, where this level of investment is better at the end. They...

It’s understandable. But perhaps they are too early to it. A) if they can make an OS that is incredible, then all they need to do is shrink AR/VR to the point where more people would rather wear glasses than walk around with a mobile phone. You would replace laptops etc. because all your...

I was going to suggest the opposite. A handheld Xbox. That when docked switched into windows mode for a MKB monitor setup. That should be the future of series S. You still need big box power Series X separately if graphical envelopes need to be pushed. To me this is how the 2 lines should...

Well from MS perspective: If we assume cloud streaming is the end goal, and we aren’t close to that goal yet there are some things that still matter: A) DX still has to be relevant, Xbox wants to be in a position to determine the features and baseline performance for hardware since that is going...

They’d still need hardware, Just not in the format it is in. For consoles to stick around they have to do more than sit under a TV and only play games.

I remember a long time ago, nearly a decade ago when Sebbbi said that we would finally see more games move entirely to compute bypassing the need for the 3D pipeline and therefore ROPS. And honestly that transition is still happening. It’s crazy how long it takes, but it’s interesting to see...

Oh damn. The drama is going to be ridiculous

Quality of the titles are tangential to the goals of the console. One doesn’t have to suffer for the other to improve and vice versa. MS has finished releasing all their cross generation titles, this wave of titles since Starfield will all be designed around this console. Bars will be moved...

Yup. It seems to be largely an Xbox only construct. I rarely see it used outside of Xbox consoles. I’m not sure if this will change with work graphs? I don’t understand enough about it yet to ask a question

A good example is sampler feedback streaming. It’s a great idea! Problem is, it requires tiled resources. And no one uses tiled resources. Barely anyone does at least - the only game that comes to mind is maybe Gears 4/5. Edit: I’ll add to the list as I Google-fu And Halo Probably flight...

Same issues as third parties. You still need to deliver a game. You only integrate systems you need. If it’s not a high priority yet, don’t plumb it in. Might be worthwhile to wait for HB2 and games forward from there. Games that are designed to push graphical boundaries make sense to use...

Depends on the bottleneck for the title. You don’t need VRS if you aren’t compute bound. You don’t need mesh shading if you aren’t geometry bound. Etc etc. The reason we don’t see greater adoption is because PS5 and PS4 and everything below SM6_4 represents the bulk of the population of...

You can’t control what developers need or do with the hardware. And mainly it takes a while for some of these to plumb. They can only integrate so much as it makes sense for them to integrate (you have to integrate on the engine and possibly the tools side of things- and that’s where content...

Right? I see this all the time and it only comes from a very traditional view of “winning”. By the numbers Phil is a beast. From this moment forward Xbox will match or better PlayStations best revenue quarters, quarter after quarter despite being behind 2:1 in hardware and platform base...

Scaling hardware sales is always a sore point for them. They don’t have the logistics a company like Sony has when it comes to warehousing etc. getting out of the hardware game or releasing hardware only once a generation is probably the best course of action for them. Developing the software...