David Jaffe claims that nothing on gamepass this coming generation will even come close to surpassing Rachet and Clank…
For someone who I personally have huge respect for in regards to his previous creative output, 90% of his takes these days are nonsensical…
Please stop following him. He is a first class troll and should be ignored. Just spews nonsense about Xbox studios regularly. And he gets calls ftom first class Xbox haters too.
He is not even a gamedev anymore, and I used to be in awe of him durimg his GoW years. Tragic waste of talent.
I might be talking out of my ass here, but they also speak Portuguese in Portugal, right?
Yes, but that’s a brazilian portuguese accent
and Brazil is the bigger market
Fair enough!
I like Jaffe and loved Rift Apart but he’s wrong. Once you get past the visuals which are superb, it’s just more Ratchet which while great isn’t exactly something unique or innovative. The rifts are cool but also setup for when they happen/take place. I can honestly say that after seeing gameplay trailers of Psychonauts 2, it’s more unique and innovative than Rift Apart.
Funny he says this though since he does praise Game Pass, a lot.
I had asked Jez on the podcast about which regions are first. He said it will be US and western Europe first, and then moving on to other regions.
Brazil has a Sao Paulo region for Azure. There is a good chance Series X blades will get installed there. Probably in the next wave.
Countires like Brazil make a lot of sense for Xcloud.
He used to praise gamepass a lot, but he is also inundated with just hate questions from his targer audience. He is a honey trap for such an audience. Hard to not let that affect him.
And he sometimes keeps wondering why the xbox studio folk don’t like him. Hehe. Talk about not being self aware.
As far as I know, he still praises Game Pass especially when he can’t play one game at a time and loves switching between games. He also praised Quick Resume.
Xbox Cloud Gaming was announced that it will arrive in Brazil, Mexico etc. still in 2021.
Source: Xbox Wire
studio pride > gamepass love
He stills says things like studio pride is greater than better pay at xbox. Whereas other actual sony ex-devs would disagree on that.
He knows rhe situation and feels threatened somtimes, so these are natural statements. (Threatened on behalf od Sony.)
Why would he be threatened?
Oh, that is good.
I wonder how many blades do you need to install for India, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc.
xbox is fairly aggressive in getting very high quality talent in the LA, Santa Monica area. He keeps bringing that up. Some of rhis talent is from top studios ike Treyaech, Rockstar, Crystal and his own past studio - Santa Monica.
ps - I did write that he is threatened on behalf of sony, in case you missed it.
Lol Malaysia doesn’t even have xbox live support, we have to use the singapore store. Might be a long while before xcloud comes to this region that’s for sure.
I watched his Ratchet video and while he does say what you said, like Pete Hines, you need to watch the video because context wise, it doesn’t mean what it comes across as. He just loves the Ratchet game to where visually, it’s superb, the seamless transition from gameplay to cinematic to gameplay is excellent and he sees the game as a classic like Terminator 2 where it’s amazing but isn’t worthy of winning game of the year.
Forza Horizon 5 Is much Better than Ratchet and. It’s a cross gen.
Just tried xcloud on win10 through wifi and bluetooth and the input lag was unbearable. I tried doom eternal to test the input lag and it was a very unpleasant experience. Image quality was great though. No artifacting or stutters or anything. What’s weird though is that the input lag seemed much less when I tried xcloud on android a couple months back. Like there was barely any lag. I could play racing games without problem. Might have been on touch controls now that I think about it. I’ll try it wired sometime this week to see if it makes a big difference.
Jaffe is smart enough to know that Gamepass is a serious threat to Sony.
Makes him much smarter than most.
the technology is different for streaming between these two: Android and Browser.
For the browser they are currently using Rainway for streaming. I think they might either optimize that eventually. Rainway is a stop-gap measure for supporting browser based streaming.
It would be interesting to see the speed-up once other optimizations like Orion (on the engine side) start playing into this tech. Xbox could have their own browser based streaming stack to replace Rainway too. Or they might just buy Rainway, and optimize that tech stack.