Well again there’s Matt Smith’s XGP Japan working on something. So it’s inevitable there will be exclusive JP games. Don’t know when that will be though.
And yeah it was disappointing to see ID@Xbox hype up that JP Indies conference and then every JP indie on it was not coming to Xbox lol.
There’s frustration building up with ID’s treatment of JP/Asia stuff, mainly that they rejected too much games because they were “racy” (it’s games that PS and Switch allow btw, and I think Danganronpa 2 (which is not indie so I guess had more lenient guidelines) has content worse than the games ID rejected).
It’s also come to light that Nun Massacre game is getting released through the Creator’s Program instead because ID@Xbox kept rejecting it, so it will not have achievements or some other features (Switch and PS allowed it).
Not thrilled about mid-gen console refreshes but not surprised either. Hoping it’s November 2024 instead of 2023. Be the halfway point for the generation.
Its alright, I didnt catch all the details either. I only got the final result. It wasnt until I read the upthread reply summarizeing things that I thought “oh wow, they really provided all the details, i just didnt pick up on all of it”.
Yeah, then it seems obviously RT is the one area where consoles are grossly lacking compared to PC and that seems where mid-gen upgrades should focus. But I really think so many factors will be against mid-gen upgrades coming anytime soon. 2025/26 is when I personally feel we’ll see them.
A lot, including me, seem to think this generation is gonna take a lot longer than the last. And “next-gen” might actually be spec upgrades from now on anyway, at least for MS, I think that’s what you meant by "rolling generation, right?
Yeah, soet of like phones, where new specifications come out more frequently than every 7 years, like perhaps new models every 3 years. The games are forward compatible so old titles continue working on new hardware.
The only typical requirement on devs is to support the hardware within say the last 4 years, so current model and current-model minus one. That would mean in 2029 games would support newly released Xbox Series X|S 2029 and Xbox Series X|S 2026. Or maybe they let the support be based on performance so the older Series S family could be dropped but still functions on the older Series X family.
I wish they’d have an “Xbox Shell” / “Xbox Dashboard” for PC to be able to run all the console games, but that would require non-trivial amount of work to get working for broader hardware configurations.
