Misterxmedia and his cult are still waiting to watch GAF burn in the dual-GPU fire.
See, I'm as positive about the Xbox One and it's capabilities as just about anyone here, and I think I have good reason to be based on what I've heard from a friend working on the system, but I can't believe people believe that rubbish over there. I'm almost certain it's someone intentionally making fun of them.
They haven't seen that this guy keeps moving the goal posts all over the place? I actually tried to go over there and read some stuff once, and I quickly got a headache trying to follow all this stuff. It's insane, and what makes it tougher is reading the comments section. A lot of genuinely cool people that are totally being misled by this individual, who I'm 100% convinced is having conversations with himself, and not some "insider."
So what exactly prevents 1080p from being the norm on Xbobe? Is it a DDR3 problem? Is the GPU even more limited than we thought?
Nothing, really. 100% of games could be 1080p on the Xbox One if developers didn't demand a certain level of graphical and visual polish from their games. People demand better and better graphics, and if a lot of games were 1080p, especially early in the system's life, sacrifices to graphical detail and features would have to be dialed back to hit that resolution at an acceptable level of performance. Developers don't like that tradeoff. They want their games to look as amazing as they can make them, and that's why they don't hesitate to go for lower resolutions if it helps them achieve that. As developers get better with the hardware perhaps they'll be able to do more with the system graphically at 1080p, but there's the PS4 which has more powerful hardware, and it's no secret that games will regularly be looked at and compared between the two systems, and a game with a lowered resolution on Xbox One but with the graphical details kicked up an extra notch compares more favorably than a game that is probably compromised in some fashion to hit 1080p, but doesn't really look all that hot as a result. At the end of the day, I think developers realize that nobody gives them any points for ticking off boxes on a checklist. Gamers, but also developers themselves, want to be able to look at a game and say, "Wow, this shit looks awesome." They don't want to think it looks like a better looking 1080p version of what an especially good looking last gen game would've been like.
And even as I say this, there will be developers this gen, I fully believe, that will make me eat crow at 1080p on the Xbox One, and a couple immediately come to mind. I suspect Turn 10 will do it with their followups.
