Well, we'll see what happens, but I am convinced that this trend will continue throughout the generation. More resolution in Series X
...with framedrops?
I hate it.
As I’ve said like a million times now, my 4 year old 1080ti runs the Outriders demo way above 100fps with Ultra settings.
My 3 months old XSX runs the same demo at ~55fps with medium(?) settings.
Does that seem logical to you?
Reason - the devs has increased the resolution above what the XSX can handle and I keep the resolution under what my 1080ti can handle.
This generation will be awful if devs keep this up. Higher resolution shouldn’t even be considered if the system start dropping frames.
And as I said earlier for NFS. Why is Microsoft letting a patch like this go live? If it’s just a software problem they should stop it and tell the devs to do better. As far as I know everything needs to be sent in to MS for verification before it goes out to the users.
If this has happened to every game since launch where XSX has performed badly, then the awesome work by Microsoft’s hardware team has been slaughtered by their apparently completely useless software verification team who hasn’t stopped all these versions, resolution has had a higher priority than framerate and that should never happen.
And if this is a lacking quality assurance problem this can continue all generation no matter if new tools arrive or not.
Somebody needs to say - Stop! Do better! This shouldn’t be Digital Foundry’s job but at this point it essentially is.