Spencer: XB1&PS4 Are In The Same Performance Ballpark As Neo&Scorpio, Developers Will Target Them

Phil Spencer had a lot to talk about at this year'southward E3 2022, especially after announcing two new Xbox One consoles: Xbox Ane South, due in August for $299, and the Project Scorpio due in Vacation 2022 probable for a much higher price.

I of the get-go things that nosotros learned most both the PlayStation 4 Neo and Xbox One Scorpio was that they won't have ay exclusives. Speaking to Metro UK, the Head of Xbox division stated expanded on the topic:

I know exactly what you hateful. I understand the sentiment and the dialogue. The performance spec of an Xbox One, of an Xbox I Southward – which is the same – or even a PS4 are roughly in the same ballpark relative to what a Scorpio is. And they have a large enough installed base of players and gamers that developers will target that audience with their new game.
And for us, all games that send for Xbox One volition ship for Xbox Ane, Xbox Ane S, and Scorpio. And so those two don't get left behind. You will still run into the kind of creative problem solving on an Xbox One and Xbox 1 South that you're talking about in a generational bike.

With both the Scorpio (targeting 6TF) and the PS4 Neo (rumored to target 4.20TF), nosotros're talking about significant operation jumps. What Spencer means hither is that, afterward factoring in the resolution deviation, the performance ballpark is similar. While PlayStation four and Xbox One games normally target a 1080P resolution (or fifty-fifty lower), their more powerful cousins will target 4K resolution.

That's a massive increment in pixel output - 2.1 million (1080P) versus eight.iii million (4K). This alone will eat pretty much all of the boosted power boasted by PS4 Neo and XB1 Scorpio.

As a result, information technology'due south likely that nosotros'll get the very same games in terms of graphics quality with the notable except of much crisper resolution. That'south similar to what we normally come across on PC, where a GTX 970 can play a game at 1080P@60FPS and Ultra settings with its three.49 TFLOPS; to do the aforementioned affair at 4K, though, you lot'll need the 9TFLOPS of the new GTX 1080. Still, between the 4K resolution and the HDR back up the graphics will be a huge enhancement.

What won't be enhanced with these new consoles is the ability of developers to create larger and richer worlds, which is one of the hallmarks of a new panel generation. That's because, as pointed out by Spencer, developers will inevitably have to target Xbox One and PlayStation 4 because of the huge installed base.

Again, this is exactly like on PC. No developer could ever target specifically the well-nigh powerful GPUs fabricated past AMD and NVIDIA, considering that would mean cutting out the mass of gamers who are using weaker hardware. The same would be true if developers targeted the new consoles instead of the former ones. Nonetheless, there's a still a lot that creative developers can do within the constraints of current console hardware, so this is hardly a pressing issue.