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Old 03-04-2016, 05:04 PM   #10504
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Originally Posted by Hollywood Hasney View Post
It's not about upgrading your existing box, it's about a whole new hardware box, so it will be an XBox One.Two or something. Runs all the XB1 games as normal, possibly at a higher setting depending on what the developers do. They've compared it to the phone/iPad model where there will be new hardware every 2 years but if you don't want to upgrade, that's fine. Games will still run on your old box.
It's something that seems sensible in theory but I cant see the console paradigm changing.

People upgrade their phone/tablets because they get sluggish, the battery goes, or because things move forward in a couple of years, or you drop it enough times, etc. Progress is fast and you use it all the time.

I think the model for the console will be stuck with the home appliance concept. You're not going to drop your console, and its not using cutting edge miniturised technlogy.

I don't think it's technology holding games back now. If anything game budgets are spiraling out of manageable control, these games have gigabytes of RAM to work with now, but are we seeing stuff that does something not possible on last gen, beyond graphics? Shadow of Mordor's nemesis system, which you could have optimised for less RAM if you were clever about it.

The backwards compatibility is a weird thing too. Demonstrably only a small percentage of gamers actually use it. Spencer said you can do it on the PC, but oftentimes this requires third party patches. You aren't playing Doom in a dos prompt. So he offers a future of backwards compatibility but currently they just give away 360 games as bonuses left and right. Old games are largely devalued. Maybe future Xbox games won't be coded to the metal, but then are they promising ultimately that they will still run on a machine in 2026? 2036? Can they really make that promise?
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