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Microsoft has already accepted there's no real want for the Xbox console. Even Phil admits it when he stated, paraphrasing, no amount of...

Tiled resources is just an awkward way of exposing virtual memory support in modern GPUs. Quite a few Sony games like Death Stranding...

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...

A good example is sampler feedback streaming. It’s a great idea! Problem is, it requires tiled resources. And no one uses tiled...

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...

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...

I'm still of the opinion that Covid, or rather Microsoft's response to it, set them back much more egregiously than Sony or third party...

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...

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...

Looks like Obsidian understood the assignment ;) Higher res on Xbox Some visual cutbacks on PS5 Some LOD improvement on PS5 Some...

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...

MS is doing fine. Every quarter Xbox is going to be posting massive numbers on revenue. It only gets larger if they can scale out to...

You've got a great take here. Furthermore, a secondary takeaway, this is why you need channels like DF. Most of this would have...

I don't really consider ANY of these Xbox to PS5 ports being an issue or odd behavior at all.. outside of Pentiment's 120hz mode not...

It shouldn't be though. If there's been improvements to an engine over the course of time, I'd expect any ports which are ported in the...