Halo 1 pc series#

I don't know the target system or that we'll know for sure beyond those reasonable guesses. Ask Bluepoint on their 360 port of Titanfall. In terms of cost it is always easier to scale up than to scale down. Typically you design your game to ensure it runs on the base system and build up, based on most post mortems, masterclasses, GDC talks, and personal questions I have run into.

Halo 1 pc series#

I don't agree the game probably targeted Series X first because it would have literally had to spend most of its early dev time by default on xbox one. And I hope we get a lot of cross gen games because hopefully that means more 60 fps games games to hopefully make that trend more cemented as the norm going forward. That's a great benefit of cross gen games.

Hell, I even agree with you with the idea that in a way that helps it be better because if it has to run on xbox one, then there's a lot of freedom to make it look and run extremely well on Series X.

No, xbox one is not making the game worse lol. We had the same situation with some games on xbox 360, like Forza Horizon 2. Like games like Cyberpunk, we will probably slowly start getting games that just don't scale down well to Xbox One. If you like their stuff as much as you seem to, you should listen to it more often. On top of that, not everything is infinitely scalable, which Digital Foundry have discussed on their podcast. What systems you develop a game for, how long you have to develop it for those systems, your engine tech and its priorities, and your experience with those systems as well as their SDKs and how those develop over time all factor into how much you can get out of a given system, and those are all things that dramatically improve as time goes on and do not logistically make sense to already be out the gate to the max at the beginning of a generation. Speaking of Digital Foundry, if you follow their podcast, they've said this multiple times.

Games still look better over time across a generation though because developers learn to do so more efficiently, which is just not physically possible right now. I know, because I have made that inquiry myself of multiple people. Every developer squeezes everything they can get out of whatever console they are developing for given time and money. This is, if you bother to ask a developer, a meaningless statement.