Correct me if im wrong but isnt that halo infonite is coming to x one?
Thats the word im hearing from news around here
edit : im getting it wrong
Of course what a mean is a full series x exclusive...
like..a real nextgen game that is not hampered by older hardware...
I assume you understood the message....
But there’s not what will happen. Games will be made for the SX, the ported down. This isn’t a case of making a game for the 1X and then just upping the res. Sure, there will be things that won’t show, for example if you use and rely on an SSD, or enhanced cpu instruction performance. But those things require special thinking to turn down and disable. A lot of people here will tell you “you can’t do THING on old hardware!” And the the truth is... you can. It may not be pretty, and you may need to go about it a different way, but you can.
The only real game changer now is that with such a fast SSD, especially if the PS5 one is true, some things will be totally different and possible that weren’t before. Cpu stuff can be turned down or off but if for example you rely on streaming of assets on a stupidly quick SSD During gameplay, you can’t really do that on the older hardware. And that’s where the concern comes from.
BUT.
That sort of thing isn’t something that every game/engine will take advantage of. For example, games like COD and Halo don’t load assets in that way. Stick an SSD in a Computer and you won’t be loading much faster. Faster, sure, but not split second speeds. Those type of games use a different form of loading asset data. So in effect, Halo Infinite will work fine on older hardware. You most certainly would be at some stupid ass resolution, with most effects disabled and turned off, and mega low res assets, mind you.
In fact, the difference will be that big, once you see the SX version you won’t want to play on the old console. This happens every generation. Game X is made, and then game X is also made for the old hardware. It looks like shit, runs like shit. But hey, we need to support our Y million potential customers that already have a console.
So while Halo isn’t an “exclusive” in the sense it’s only on SX, it certainly
Will be taking advantage of next gen features. MS have gone about all this a really bad way, And I can’t say I agree at all with, well, most of it... but they aren’t that stupid to make their flagship title on a brand new console look and play like an Xbox one game. Even the brief tech video already looked totally light years ahead of anything this gen could do, and if you (not you, but people) looked with a technical eye and not a console war eye, you would see why that is.