Microsoft is presumably referring to single-precision floating point (FP32) performance, as these metrics typically do. At 12 TFLOPs, the GPU inside the Xbox Series X is a tad faster than Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Super, and just a bit behind a 2080 Ti, currently the best graphics card for gaming.
In an industry with countless FIFAs, sorry EA Sports FCs, Sloclap’s Rematch is a brilliant arcade football game that feels incredibly unique. Putting players in the shoes of an individual player, the new multiplayer game is essentially Rocket League without the rockets and cars… it’s football.
TNS: Expedition 33 was the wake-up call Square Enix needed, telling it turn-based RPGs are still popular, but that shouldn't have been the case.
True, but if it does get it through their thick skulls, then that works.
Although, the Dragon Quest 1 + 2 HD remakes will be turn-based and (the worst kept secret) Final Fantasy IX remake should be turn-based I would imagine. Let's see if any newer games go turn-based too.
While it is true that Sqaure Enix has moved away from turn based games compared to how they were in the past, there is a good reason for it.
Older gamers will know this but during the ps2 era, we were flooded with turned based games from Japanese studios and this created a form of fatigue back then going into the next generation.
When Square released FF13, they received heavy criticism for making the game turned based like every other FF game and not doing enough to innovate. This is why they made FF15, FF7 Remake and FF16 have real time combat. It gave the series a fresh spin and has brought in new fans to the series.
I personally would be happy with either turned based FF or the real-time combat version we see today.
Only need to look at their own game DQ 11 approaching 10 million to show there's a market. And that's not as big of a name as FF
Another article about Expedition 33 and Square Enix and turn-based games? This is starting to sound like propaganda.
The game didn't sell because it's a turn-based game; it sold and is enjoyed because it's a really freaking good game that released completed at a good price without gamer drama attached to it. No Mtx, no wait-until-it's-patched, minimal bloat, a self-contained story, no multiplatform BS. Just a solid original game that absolutely nails what it intended to do.
Maybe try actually listening to the fans who have supported the series for decades. This habit of ignoring your core audience just to chase people who were never interested in Final Fantasy in the first place makes no sense. And when that approach fails, doubling down on it is beyond baffling.
The battle system has never been the main reason non-FF or non-JRPG players stayed away. Gutting the series’ identity to chase a broader market doesn’t attract new players. It just alienates the loyal ones.
Keep going down this road and we’ll end up with Final Fantasy Fortnite abomination or a F2P Battle Royale game.. Oh wait…
It was previously hinted that Xbox has stopped selling the physical disc of video games. Further proof of the gaming giant abandoning physical media has appeared as Cronos: The New Dawn will not be available on a physical disc for Xbox Series S|X.
Atp I'm not surprised I think nintendo will be the only ones due to consumers going to be physical media folks imo respect
So much for that games preservation team they set up
How can you go on about it games preservation but abandoned physical media
Funny... I have the full library of games from the 2nd gen on up to the 5th fully preserved in digital form as well as on a physical hard drive.
Am I doing it right?
I've got a photo preserved on a web storage service... until it's not because that service goes away. Only, in your case, you can't just move the photo wherever you want. Not the best preservation plan when it relies on Xbox always being around.
Look, I get digital is fine enough for people and, for the most part, will work fine for a good long while. But preservation isn't about 'being there as long as the company that controls it exists' but making it available 50+ years from now or 100+ years from now without having to rebuy it over and over and over and over and over on new services.
Because PR is the point. It IS the point. MS has many differnt accomplishments it can hang on its neck but above all is its commitment to Public Relations. Its legendary and its has nothing to do with what the company is actually doing. What Microsoft will do is survey gaming content creator and find out what they are talking about and then focus an absurdly intense PR beam at that specific issue.
5 years and physical media exists only as special collector items. cds, dvds, blurays will be completely gone from the shelves. Sadly.
Well these are some amazing specs that we have heard so far. What a difference this time around compared to the original Xbox One reveal.
Microsoft seems to be doing everything right.
The next thing they need to get right are games, I can see them keeping all the game reveals for E3 & I'm sure they'll finally get this right aswell from all the studios they have bought.
The last thing will be the price, if they get this right aswell I can see things going extremely well for Microsoft.
Going to have to double that console savings plan
Consoles tend to be fairly high end at launch. They also use extra optimization allowed as a crutch.
That said, by mid-gen, they tend to really start showing their age. At least come 3rd party titles, this this gen's refreshes. That also means, console gamers looking to stay up to date, are probably paying closer to $800 per system, per gen.
Just food for thought.
Great to see a powerful console again. Been a long time since 2001.
Hopefully Nvidia will deliver on the 50% improvement on performance rumor that is flying around, because you'd have to be completely out of your mind to purchase a 2080 Super or 2080TI right now, with the steep prices they are asking. The big Navi and Ampere announcements can't come soon enough, since I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do for my next PC build.
I'm worried about PC parts prices rising, not only due to the Covid19 virus, but also due to the fact that once console manufacturers start ramping up production, along with any new smart phones that might be launching later in the year, system memory, NAND flash memory, CPUs and GPUs might become scarce, and then we'll be looking at major price hikes.
These are the perfect conditions for a major storm in the PC parts market, and I'm not liking it too much. I might just bite the bullet, and go out and build a new system with an R7 2700X, a B40 Tomahawk MAX mobo, 32GB DDR4 Memory, a 2TB NVMe drive, and then wait on the new GPUs to launch later this year. It's a tough call.