Nerdacy: Now that I've had a little over a month to play my not-so-shiny brand-new Xbox One, here are the features that have intrigued me, caught my attention, and the ones I've used the most, because they are the features that make it feel next-gen.
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Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.
Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.
Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.
Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.
Yeah..kinect is cool,i love using the upload studio alot and my family use the skype feature alot more than myself i also cant wait for MS to add more functionality via new updates. Want to try out twitch streaming and also i need more info on the post launch titles for the console especially halo5 and rares unannounced titles. The wait is killing me.
Take one look at Ryse or Forza 5 and you know the X1 hardware is next gen. Use Skype, snap, HDMI input/passthru, fast-switching, and game DVR and you will feel nextgen.
Whining aside about 1080p vs 900p and 60 fps vs. 30fps... When you look at the Ryse and Forza games in action, you know none of the previous generation of consoles can do that. Also, in DR3 seeing literally hundreds of zombies on screen at once makes it feel next gen because there is no way you could do that on previous consoles.
Yes, I know PS4 fanboys will jump in and say their specs are better, and they are correct. But, I doubt X1 owners are too disappointed after they have seen/played Ryse and Forza with the X1 capabilities. And I know PS4 fans will talk about the $100 price difference... But, for me, Kinect, snap, fast-switching, and the HDMI input make the console worth the extra money I had to shell out for my X1's. Essentially, X1 is effectively about 25% less specs than PS4, but it has a much more functional and better operating system, Kinect is a nice have in the package, and the HDMI pass thru makes backwards compatibility a nice to have instead of a requirement.
More next gen than the other console imo. For a long time, it's been Microsoft and Nintendo that are bringing new innovations to gaming, innovations these companies are not afraid to stand behind.
Nothing against Sony, but this company lacks the innovative mindset and just throws you the same old experience all the time. Even when this company innovates, it fails to believe in its own creation.
I hope both Microsoft and Nintendo find success because innovation push this industry forward into new and exciting things instead of forcing it to be stuck in the past.
I agree, the ps4 is awesome but it's just a hardware upgrade the xbone seems to be different in a good way.