The Xbox One Thread v6.0
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or 30th if you will.
Ubi has unveiled the next Assassin's Creed, called AC Unity. It takes place in during the French Revolution:
In the article you posted earlier from respawn about the servers, under the heading What Is The Cloud, the guy says ,
" Amazon has a cloud that powers websites, Sony has a cloud that streams live gameplay so you can play games streamed live to your console and now Xbox Live somehow powers games"
So maybe there is something different about the backend of the MS servers.
But according to devs it would be a very expensive choice. If Sony asked MS for renting Azure, MS would have no choice but give it to them at same cheap price point as for others. Remember fair licensing laws and services and what not. AWS is 3x more expensive than Azure and doesn't automaticaly scale like Azure wich is a huge plus.
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/campaigns/azure-vs-aws/
By the way guys surprisingly KB really didn't say that xbox would need 50% power but just that difference between 720p and 900p is 50%. Now how much power it takes to upgrade from one to other varies from game to game. If you optimise for years it could be possible to actually make your code run more lean and achieve 900p with same power usage as you previously did with 720p. This is the reason why it's important to have SDK/API run the best they can as with better tools/software you get better optimisation.
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If a game runs at 720p on X1 and 1080p on PS4, it doesn't necessarily mean that the X1 is reaching its absolute limit, it's more likely that it could absolutely render at 1080p but doesn't meet the required say 30 fps , maybe it only averages 20-25 fps so the devs choose to go 720p. The X1 isn't going to need a % 50 power boost for that few extre fps needed for the dev to decide to go 1080p.
Take Tomb Raider for instance, both 1080p with X1 being locked at 30 fps, maintaining that 99% of the time and obviously it could have reached more if unlocked but would have made for obvious frame rate drops so was locked and the PS4 version being unlocked with the PS4 version sometimes hitting 60fps but mainly in 40-50 fps range, I don't see the massive power discrepancy some people are making out.
Take Tomb Raider for instance, both 1080p with X1 being locked at 30 fps, maintaining that 99% of the time and obviously it could have reached more if unlocked but would have made for obvious frame rate drops so was locked and the PS4 version being unlocked with the PS4 version sometimes hitting 60fps but mainly in 40-50 fps range, I don't see the massive power discrepancy some people are making out.
What I was saying even though if was in plain English and very easy to understand (so I'm slightly surprised that people here failed to grasp what it meant) was to up the reso from 720p to 900p or from 900p to 1080p requires roughly 50% more ALU and also more bandwidth and TEX how people misunderstood to really don't know, of course the xb1 has 1080p games they just mainly are downloadable indie titles for now.
We know what you said, but by adding "but it will help" your implying the Xbox One still couldn't do 1080p games even with the 28 percent boost.
That is why I said they already have 1080p games. Forza 5, NBA 2K14, Need For Speed, Tomb Raider and others are 1080p on Xbox One.
So like I was saying earlier this boost will allow Microsoft to have more 1080p games.
The reason 1080p was so hard for devs was because of the Esram, a lot of devs said they had trouble with it. But with the new tools MS put out its going to be much easier according to the sniper elite dev.
I saw the video earlier today and it looked too good. But then i downloaded it on Gamersyde, which is always top quality, and you can notice aliasing in the footage, if that video was prettied up or.....fake...i am sure they would have perfected the anti aliasing. So maybe it IS how the game will look on Xbox One and PS4 then, that would be absolutely fantastic, cause it looks lovely. But this IS Ubi.....we'll have to wait and see.
Man..they're pumping those AC's out faster than I can play them. I still need to play AC Brotherhood, AC 4 and AC Liberation HD.
I sure hope it's sooner rather than later. I just watched some videos of MGS Ground Zeroes on Xbox One and PS4 and goddamn...where it's all smooth with the framerate and looks very crisp, it's all a bit stuttery and blurry on Xbox One. Did Kojima's team even bother? Sure hope the real MGS 5 will be better in these regards.
You had it right the first time but you fail right there. It might need 50% more power on same exact toolset but doing it different way or on different toolset it might not need any extra power.
None of us know how power translates into resolution as x360 had 1080p games with 240Gflops and xbox is currently doing games with 1200Gflops right now and soon 1300Gflops and different tools.
Again we don't know how much tools affect resolution or anything else.
What you just said that since Bugati gets a laptime of 1:30 with 1000 hp that in order for 740hp F1 to get the same lap time it would need 50% more power and completely disregarding fine suspension and weight.
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I have it on Xbox one, my copy isn't stuttery and blurry. It is no Ryse or Infamous but I think it looks nice.
Really? I was skeptical, but AC4 is the first one NOT to bore me since AC2. Maybe it's the drastic change of locale and the pirate theme, but I've already sunk at least 30 hrs into it and still have a ways to go.
Unfortunately a large, we'll armed Titan is currently standing in my way.
Agreed. Everything from AC2, IMO, has been trash until black flag and black flag is, IMO, the best AC to date.
Mine wasn't either this morning. I said "Xbox go to....." and it took me to where I wanted to go though.
That game's a joke, if he thinks he can sell it in instalments at $30 a pop.
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