"Don't Give Up on Xbox One," Forza Horizon 3 Creative Director Says

Effectually a twelvemonth from at present, Microsoft will innovate a more powerful version of its 8th generation Xbox 1 console. The upcoming system, currently known as Project Scorpio, will feature upgraded hardware that will allow players to experience 4K gaming with smoother frame rates, and more than. But what does that hateful for your standard Xbox One console that is currently available in the marketplace? Cipher much; Microsoft has reassured several times. In addition, developers besides think the current hardware still has a lot to offer.

"How much more can you lot push out of it [The Xbox I]? I would probably but say don't give up on Xbox One, merely yet," Ralph Fulton, Artistic Director at Playground Games, recently said while speaking with DailyStar. Playground Games, for those who are unaware, is an independent British video game developer responsible for open up-earth Forza Horizon series, which is office of the Forza franchise published by Microsoft Studios.

Looking at recent triple AAA game releases on Xbox One, including Microsoft's own Forza Horizon 3 and Gears of War 4, it is quite clear that the console still has quite a lot to offer. Developers might face some issues pushing things ahead with the hardware, only as Fulton says, developers are still learning stuff, as the console was launched but a few years agone. Now at that place is Xbox One S also, which offers fifty-fifty better gameplay experiences with HDR features.

"Developers are always finding new ways to excerpt more than from hardware," continued Fulton. "We're simply a couple of years from the Xbox I launch so we're still learning stuff. We're nevertheless finding new means and meliorate ways to do things. Information technology'southward kinda a point of pride for skillful developers to e'er be pushing standards and quality on hardware."

In a recent interview, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter suggested to that Microsoft has an "inferiority complex," and the fact that it is already behind in the US in terms of panel sales, the team might consider accelerating Scorpio'south launch date, to keep up with Sony, and its latest PlayStation iv Pro console. You tin read all comments from Pachter here.