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Ghostwire: Tokyo on Xbox Series X Worse Than PS5 in Terms of Resolution, FPS, Ray Tracing

Microsoft may own Ghostwire: Tokyo developer Tango Gameworks, but the new Xbox port is inferior across the board.

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Jin_Sakai411d ago (Edited 411d ago )

When a Microsoft first party studio puts out a better game on PS5. Lol

• Worse Ray Traced Reflections
• RT Shadow misalignment
• Lower Resolution
• Up to 13% lower FPS

Lightning77411d ago (Edited 411d ago )

Yeah so much for MS trying to sabotage the PS version of games. Jim Ryan made that claim with COD.

Is MS doing this on purpose? Probably not.

IamTylerDurden1411d ago

Maybe they just have bad hardware and did the best they could on xb? Maybe S was a factor? Who knows?

The Wood411d ago

Ryan is talking about future iterations

crazyCoconuts411d ago

MS can easily "fix" this problem in exactly that way. If this bad press gets the attention of the Eye of Sauron this won't happen again

kayoss411d ago (Edited 411d ago )

MS is just plain incompetent, period. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure this out.

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SullysCigar411d ago

Yeah, this is a tough pill to swallow.

Just seems like the latest example of studios mis-firing once stuck in the Microsoft swamp. We all know what happened to Rare, we're seeing right now the trouble Arkane/Bethesda are having getting a game that looks and plays like Redfall to run above 30fps on series X and now we're seeing the downgrade for an existing game in Ghostwire Tokyo.

I wonder if Microsoft are just so desperate to get some games out that they're pushing the devs too hard and ending up with unpolished/unfinished products, just to hit their preferred release schedule? Or perhaps, in this case, the devs are committing to a release date on the mis-guided preconception that the series XS will be as easy and quick to develop for as the PS5 was?

darkrider411d ago

Remember the excuse of Sony got marketing deals... Yeah... They must also have with redfall....

Abracadabra411d ago

There goes Sony's theory that Microsoft would put a inferior version of their games on PS5. LOL.

IamTylerDurden1411d ago (Edited 411d ago )

Dumb af. A game that was deep in development before the deal was official, that launched a year early on PS5 would not be sabotaged ffs. They want the initial impressions of the game to be good. It wasn't a simultaneous release. They wouldn't kill their game with a garbage version day 1 just to spite Sony. Not when that was the only console at launch. Lord you try-hard fanboys are weak mfers. Childish, half formed arguments that are moronic.

Let's kill our game at launch with a broken version so it fails and then a year later release a superior version on XB that f***ing nobody will care about because the game's rep will already be in the toilet. At least have thoughtful and well supported arguments if u want to fanboy. God help the social media gaming wars. Sad, weak, rhetoric from those who can't form compelling, new ideas or rational arguments of their own.

Abracadabra411d ago (Edited 411d ago )

Yes you're so right, people that don't understand sarcasm are dumb af...

Ninver411d ago

@iamTylerDurden

Rip em a new one mate

kayoss411d ago

Well Sony is right. They know that MS cant even make their game look good, what you think they can make a PS5 version of the game look good?

gangsta_red411d ago

Looks like Sony sabotaged their timed exclusive for Xbox! Someone call the FTC!

IamTylerDurden1411d ago (Edited 411d ago )

What? A jk that Sony sabotaged the XB version? Ok, i can dig but the FTC comment showed your true colors. Gangsta green? Change it. But ofc there should be no regulation in business. Great point. Let the biggest companies do anything they want. Brilliant. It's always the best thing. MS should buy Embracer and Tencent next. It helps competition. And how dare Sony oppose industry altering acquisitions that clear impact competition and revenue. No company would fight something that could drastically impact them for the negative. Petty Sony with their political connections. Luckily MS isn't petty nor has political connections. Idc if ppl can't tell sarcasm or simply disagree. 99% of fans are mouth breathing muppets with regurgitated, uninteresting thought. Both sides.

gangsta_red411d ago

...wow...a bit of advice, learn the art of subtle sarcasm instead of insane rantings.

CBaoth411d ago

nice deflection. You can't even admit that a MS dev had almost a year to fine tune an UNREAL engine IP (cuz you know MS studios are allegedly masters of Unreal lol) to perfection to illustrate the differences between the two consoles and couldn't. These are the Hi-Fi Rush guys by golly. You know your GOTY dev of 2022 with the bestest game evar....well since that 2D sidescroller came and went. So much for scaling huh? Series G rears its ugly head again. No wonder they cancelled the PS5 version of Starfield, they can't handle the fallout (pun intended)

gangsta_red411d ago

You should really start charging rent instead of letting MS live rent free in your head.

masterfox411d ago

xbox series x should cost 350 dlls and the S 150 bucks imo.

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ChasterMies411d ago

Oh, they will, just like the Xbox One and Xbox One S fire sales during last gen.

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Every PlayStation Studios game available now on Windows PC

Windows Central writes: "Many PlayStation Studios games that are ported to PC get dedicated PS5 DualSense support, which allows users to experience haptic feedback and adaptive trigger support without actually having to own a PS5.

According to Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, it's still the company's intent to launch the bigger single-player games on PS5 first, before later bringing the games to PC. This might not be the case for multiplayer games however, which are considered okay to launch simultaneously on console and PC."

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ocelot071d 11h ago

My guess is after god of war. Probably last of us 2 that's a almost 4 year old game now and by the time it's released on pc it will be more than 4 years old or close to 5.

Elda1d 6h ago

Every old Playstation game that is now on PC.

shinoff218320h ago

Right. I definitely see what a headlined from a website named windows central was trying to do though. It's cute little wordplay to help out the green box

Flewid63819h ago

Are PlayStation games no longer good or worth playing once they are old?

Elda18h ago

I'm guessing my comment went over your head.

XiNatsuDragnel1d 4h ago

Good at least they can sell hardware

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Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie

Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie. This is something of a homecoming, as Microsoft owns Activision.

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Obscure_Observer1d 22h ago

Very very early in development. Still, fantastic news!

Let´s GO!!!

Lightning771d 20h ago

I guess.

How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )

At least it wouldn't be MS of all ppl destroying them.

MS really should let go Tango go like they did TFB here.

darthv721d 20h ago (Edited 1d 20h ago )

one was under Bethesda (Tango) the other under Activision (TFB). Clearly each one handled the separations of their subordinates differently.

Obscure_Observer1d 19h ago (Edited 1d 19h ago )

"How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )"

Perhaps because Zenimax and ABK handles such matters differently based on their own internal policies as "independent" publishers.

Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future. Which could also be the reason why they ensured an exclusive partnership with TFB and its new game, before anyone else.

Sad and disgusting. But it is what it is.

Lightning771d 16h ago (Edited 1d 16h ago )

"Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future."

MS has a bad rep now because those studios are no more. I rather them sell the studio continue to make multiplatform releases, while MS continues to focus on whatever they're doing. If they didn't want Tango around they should separated from them or sell them to, like they did TFB.

It's inexcusable, they have options on how to handle studios they don't want anymore with killing jobs. Not just MS but the rest of the industry also.

Sad and disgusting sure how many will get shut down next year or this year even?

I don't trust MS decisions and motivations at this point. You have to admit they make one dumb move after another.

Obscure_Observer1d 8h ago (Edited 1d 8h ago )

"MS has a bad rep now because those studios are no more. I rather them sell the studio continue to make multiplatform releases, while MS continues to focus on whatever they're doing. If they didn't want Tango around they should separated from them or sell them to, like they did TFB."

Imo, MS separated from TFB because they didn´t had a game associated with Xbox yet, unlike Tango.

"I don't trust MS decisions and motivations at this point. You have to admit they make one dumb move after another."

Fair enough. It was indeed an epic dumb move from them to close Tango.

Still, all to be forgotten, like always have. This is not the first time a big publisher shuts down a beloved and/or successful studio out of nowhere and certainly won´t be the last. Do you remember Lionhead? Do you remember Evolution Studios? Yeah... both were beloved studios and yet, those companies kill those studios in q blink of an eye and got away with it.

anast1d 6h ago (Edited 1d 6h ago )

The studio boss made some money from this transaction. Once the game releases, the studio will get chopped up.

-Foxtrot1d 22h ago

Manages to buy their freedom especially after all the shit Microsoft has been doing with its studios lately

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Goes right back to them as partners.

Okaaaaaay...

darthv721d 20h ago

Id venture a guess that TFB working directly with MS was a better outcome than working through Activision to get to MS.

VersusDMC1d 18h ago

From the article...

"Toys for Bob spun out as an indie back in February after Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs that impacted 86 employees, which was more than half of the staff"

I doubt those 86 employees enjoyed the Microsoft experience over Activisions.

Inverno1d 18h ago

MS shuts down studios because of lack of resources and then helps these guys by giving em resources. Also MS is what forced them to buy their freedom in the first place? What kind of logic 😂

Chevalier1d 14h ago

The best thing is that the company that is worth $3 trillion and owns the company instead of Xbox lacks resources. How the hell does a company worth $3 trillion making a measly $70 billion purchase they 'can't' support. Lol

BlindMango20h ago

The reason they would need to "partner with Microsoft" is simply to make a game that's part of a franchise that Microsoft owns. Meaning they're probably going to make a new Spyro game - they're still an independent studio, but are making a game in a franchise that Microsoft owns. It's kind of like Remedy partnering with Rockstar to be able to make the Max Payne remakes.

shinoff218320h ago

It was probably the deal to get released from Ms

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Sciurus_vulgaris1d 20h ago (Edited 1d 20h ago )

Xbox’s gaming division seems to still function as 3 semi-autonomous sub-divisions, Xbox Studios, Bethesda and ABK. The three main sub-divisions can seemingly shut down or build studios and set up partnerships independently. This would explain why Bethesda can recently shutdown studios, while ABK spins off one studio, while building a new one. Plus, Toys for Bob could be spun off by ABK, only to immediately re-partner with Microsoft.

Chevalier1d 14h ago

That's absolutely 💯 BS. Any sane 'autonomous' company would NOT put their games on Gamepass day 1 like COD will lose probably billions.

Also they're all under Xbox game studios so any autonomy is an illusion.

PhillyDonJawn1d 2h ago

No, I'm sure MS can and does step in when they want something done specifically but I'm also sure they let them also work independently

shinoff218320h ago

I highly highly doubt this. Ms controls all. The guys aren't gonna be allowed to just shut something down like that without approval. No way

Elda1d 14h ago

Either a kiddie game or something uninteresting.

Obscure_Observer1d 8h ago

Don´t worry. You won´t be playing it anyway since their next game will possible be a next gen Xbox console game.

Elda1d 7h ago (Edited 1d 7h ago )

Don't worry about my comments.

PhillyDonJawn1d 2h ago

Right probably something like astrobot

romulus231d 1h ago

Nah he said "uninteresting", lots of people are interested in Astro Bot.

Elda1d ago

Never Astro Bot. Astro Bot looks better than any exclusive released on XB this entire generation & believe there hasn't been much.

Asplundh23h ago

Crash 4 was good, so I'm hopeful.

PhillyDonJawn22h ago

Hey you said that about SOT and looks like many ppl on PS is playing it. You also found bugsnax interesting ffs your opinion hold no weight lol.

Elda21h ago(Edited 21h ago)

Bugsnax is BS, tried it & quickly deleted it. It's a game that fits right on Gamepass. PS5 owners that are probably playing the boring SOT you could count on one hand. LMAO!!...don't try to come for me.

PhillyDonJawn19h ago

So you admit bugsnax interested you enough to try? 😂 someone gotta call you out on the foolishness.

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What Happens to Your Steam Account When You Die?

The Outerhaven writes: While Steam has come out recently, stating that Steam accounts can't be transferred, we need to think about it since we all will eventually kick the bucket. But if Valve is denying transferring accounts, what can be done? Plenty, actually.

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thorstein2d ago

It goes to my kids because I gave them the passwords.

To Steam: Missio has a song that conveys my feelings about you stealing my purchase after I die. It's called "Middle Fingers"

shinoff21832d ago

Pretty much. My son knows my info.

Abear212d ago

Yeah worrying about digital ownership when you’re on the other side of the grass seems a little strange, but also on brand for these millennial journalists to worry about.

qalpha1d 13h ago

I'm sure Keith will be happy to hear he's a millennial journalist.

Goodguy012d ago

I suppose if I have kids, I'd just give em my account details by retirement age. If I die young then...idk lol.

CrimsonWing692d ago

Yea, I mean just give someone the password to your account. Is that difficult to do or something? Like, I’m legit asking because I don’t know.

anast2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

It's not difficult but It's against the policy. If they find out, they will lock the account permanently.

CrimsonWing692d ago

Ah ok, I had a feeling there was something like that. It seems kind of weird that you can’t just hand your account over to a family member or friend and let them take over the account.

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