Forza is the only reason I kept my 360 and after seeing that gameplay vid, I am not impressed with Forza 5.
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TGS Forza 5: Severe Visual Degradation? No, Uncalibrated TVs, No Geek Squad Available
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Forza is the only reason I kept my 360 and after seeing that gameplay vid, I am not impressed with Forza 5.
The clock bumps have unbalanced the previously perfectly poised console.
maplelord93
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what kind of silly question? he is the lead xbox one planning guy off course he would know.
You have no idea who you're talking to do you? lol
Albert Penello
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Not true.
First of all, our Dev kits and Retail kits are exactly the same. The only difference is the SW running on it.
Second, developers cannot turn off/on CU's. Some of our internal engineers have been able to do that for testing purposes, but it's not something available to developers.
The Gamescom builds looked better than the E3 builds. The final game will look even better I'm told.
Albert Penello
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Trembled a bit, there?
?
maplelord93
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when are we going to get them dashboard videos, destructoid article on it was interesting
Parapraxis
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While checking out the competition.
Just a joke, given the "ahem". I guess it didn't quite work
Don't the dev kits have 12gb ram as oppose to 8gb? Often dev kits do have more ram for added debugging and optimisation leeway and buffer. It would make no difference to the look of the final game mind, since the games would be running designed specifically for the amount of ram in the retail kits.
Really? so what about that extra USB port?
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Well not USB but this mystery port
Parapraxis
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Agreed.
I've also been having many "?"s, but then again, i'm probably a wee bit drunker than yourself.
Albert Penello
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No, they don't. This was a rumor going around a while back. Not sure how it started.
EDIT: I'm talking about the current, retail-form factor dev kits. Anything shown on one of the black kits, or white zebra kits. There were very early PC-based dev kits with specs I'm not familiar with, lest I get caught in semantics discussion.
Interesting. Thanks for the clarification.
Like this:
Albert Penello of MS just confirmed a massive 50% downgrade of RAM in dev kits.
Parapraxis
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This is off topic in regards to Forza 5, but I would absolutely love to know.
Do you see stuff happening on competitors hardware that surprise you, and/or gives you new ideas that you want to bring back "home"?
Does the team at MS feel, at the moment they have 1 or 2 direct competitors?
Questions answered or not, I think it's awesome that you are checking out competitors, do you see a lot of Sony/Nintendo people checking out the MS booths?
Albert Penello
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Parapraxis
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Amazing.
He was joking lol. Makes little difference if the dev kit has that extra ram or not. Might have helped devs a bit, but ultimately the important fact is that the Xbox One's retail specs remain unchanged.
Parapraxis
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Having dev kits have 50% more ram wouldn't really make much sense to me, wouldn't that make them have to downscale to retail?
Also, pretty sure Albert caught that zinger. Hence the bolded.
Albert Penello
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Yes, I know. I was just saying it was awfully close to what really happens. It happened twice at TGS, actually. It gets frustrating.
Despite what everyone would love to believe, I'm not in PR, but I have been helping do demos - and I'll probably be on the road more before launch. If I *was* in PR, I'd probably do a better job watching what I say.
LordBaztion
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Maybe this are the news HeliosT10 hinted at the 24 players online thread.
No, because they don't design the game around having 12GB, but the retail amount of 8GB. The extra ram (if it existed) just helps shifting stuff around, or acting as extra buffer for debugging and optimisations. Think of it as extra storage you can use temporarily but later remove whilst trying to get stuff to fit in a particular box as efficiently and tightly as possible.
Doesn't always happen, just sometimes.
Parapraxis
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Hey Albert, i'd like to apologize for my initial dickishness, just seen too many people claiming to have "inside" knowledge whilst making up tall tales, I suppose it comes with the nature of the industry where many people are armchair experts.
Wasn't paying attention to the person I quoted, 3:am, just finished some pretty intense karaoke.
Albert Penello
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Really? so what about that extra USB port?
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Well not USB but this mystery port
Yes. There is a diagnostic port on some dev kits. Still functionally the same as the retail units and made on the same line. To be even more specific, there are several versions of SW for kits based on what's being run. And many of them are literally the same boxes.
True, but any employee of a company doing public information relaying regarding it's products, interviews and so forth, is actually indirectly or directly doing public relations. I think that's why people label you as doing PR. You're a spokes person for the company and it's product whether you want to be or not.
Albert Penello
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No need to apologize at all. It was a fair question. I never assume people know who I am, so fair to ask. I wish more people were as critical of their information sources
While I don't really have a reason to defend Microsoft these days, I can at least confirm that they suck at calibrating their demo screens. We can go to any TV at Sony's booth with our usual 6500K color calibration and have perfect colors. At MS' we have to do a manual color calibration almost every time. It's like they plug in the console, turn it on, check if there is a picture, and done. I remember an incident at a French games show where at least half the consoles had the yuv cable in SD mode (it was before the HDMI consoles where out), so half the demos where running in SD on hdtvs, and no one at MS seemed to care when I told them that they should do something about it. Obviously they care more about E3, at least, but who knows if there was someone in charge at the TGS for this stuff...
I have raw footage from the TGS (the now infamous Spa incident), and it's absolutely the exact same demo that we saw at Gamescom.
I have raw footage from the TGS (the now infamous Spa incident
), and it's absolutely the exact same demo that we saw at Gamescom.Don't let them in your knickers, Albert.
phosphor112
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He wasn't off by much...Those were very early guesses IIRC too.
No need to apologize at all. It was a fair question. I never assume people know who I am, so fair to ask. I wish more people were as critical of their information sources
Can you tell us why haven't third party multiplatform games been shown running on the X1 yet? The only one so far I think was Fifa. The system is only 2 months away from launch and yet 99% of the multiplatform games haven't been shown running.
Parapraxis
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No need to apologize at all. It was a fair question. I never assume people know who I am, so fair to ask. I wish more people were as critical of their information sources
Cool man, but seriously, I was a total dick.
So, yeah...is Nintendo even on your guys' radar now? I kid I kid.
What game has you most excited for next gen? I haven't personally seen Titanfall, but it looks amazing from the 2nd hand footage.
I guess in this thread you should probably say F5
Looked like badly compressed video on my end. Even the green in the booth was artifacted. Other than the track being empty as I would expect from Laguna Seca, did I miss something happen in the video (other than the weird flash of light that happens 3 or so times towards the end)? It's also at 720P (all resolution jokes aside) and a little difficult to see any legitimate issues.
While I agree it's possible they tried to trick us with the E3 demo, it was a super sweet demo. I'd really like to hear if this was legitimately seen by other participants as so far as Youtube was concerned I could only find THIS video...which is weird because I could find all sorts of people singing their own renditions of every terrible act on the radio.
Either way, would be disappointing as I've got a lot of respect for the Forza franchise. I do wish at times though I had blind devotion, it's nice to not have to think about if I will enjoy all aspects of the game. -Adam
Salvor.Hardin
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Exactly what I'm wondering. I'm interested in getting the One but I'd at the very least like to see some of these multiplatform games running on the console before I decide to splurge.
Now of course I'll get the chance to do that post-launch, but if I do decide to get a launch console (which I've begun thinking I should), I'd like to see what these guys have to offer in ways of multiplatform performance.
or its just now for the first time being seen on actual Xbone hardware, and not a PC with a Titan in it...
polyh3dron
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holy shit best two first posts ever.
Remember when all the early previews of Project Gotham Racing 3 for 360 had it running at 60FPS and then they downgraded it to 30 right before launch?
Deja fucking vu.
crazygambit
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Good to know. Thanks for the clarification!
SatansReverence
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The E3 build WAS different.
The build at TGS is the same that was shown at gamescom which was a newer build than shown at E3
Albert Penello
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You know, I'm not sure. You'd have to ask the 3rd Parties. I was hoping to see more myself.
If I had to make a GUESS (please note the highlighted "guess" as the following statement is made by me personally and not as a representative of the Microsoft (R) corporation), and it's probably because everyone is busy trying to ship in two months. Taking time off to make playable demos may be too time consuming. You've got two new console launches on top of likely 4+ existing platforms.
travisbickle
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I have raw footage from the TGS (the now infamous Spa incident
What's this?
Also, probably the visual difference between Laguna Seca and Prague that has led to disappointment here.
Callibretto
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first time seeing the often joked about sun in Forza, holy shit that is blinding, at least add some option to turn down the sun visor or something.
Definitely a bug or something wrong with the camera. I have raw footage from the TGS and it doesn't have this issue at all.
I was told by the guy who did our footage at the show that he had footage from the Spa track, and I reported it on the Forza thread here. When he uploaded, it turned out it was Laguna Seca, leading to a few disappointed (to say the least
) people here Yes that would make sense. But it does look a bit odd considering a few PS4 versions of different multiplatform games have now been shown publicly (oft playable) at different events. In any case, hopefully they sort out optimisations and polishing in time for launch.
Parapraxis
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Read the thread.
The story here is that the E3 demo and TGS demo were different.
Many people saying Gamescon/PAX/TGS build are all the same, and the visual downgrade is quite "overstated" if it exists at all.
YES It's quite possible the E3 demo was quite bullshot-ey
YES visual downgrade between the E3 demo and subsequent ones is possible.
YET, very hard to support given the lack of direct feed videos and the fact only one person is claiming there was a downgrade between E3 - and any other demos.
IF the E3 demo was spectacular, and the subsequent PAX/Gamescon and TGS ones were severely "downgraded" there would be many more articles about the issue now, than there currently is.
thunder_snail
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well turn 10s Dan Greenawalt is at eurogamer expo on thursday at 1.00 at the developer sessions for the gaming public discussing forza 5.I would wait for impressions from that before jumping to conclusion abut the quality of the graphics.
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