PS4 vs Xbox One: Microsoft Confirms More Games to Run on 1080p
Gamers might just see more 1080p titles on the Xbox One, if developers get much more skilled at techniques in tailoring games for the game box, remarks an Xbox executive.
Speaking with Total Xbox, Xbox director of development Boyd Multerer said that he "fully expects" that game devs will be able to deliver more titles that run a native 1080p on the Microsoft game console. "I fully expect that to happen," Multerer told Total Xbox. "The [graphics processing units] are really complicated beasts this time around," he added.
According to him, game devs will be able to fine tune titles to the Xbox One's ESRAM, which he thinks is "super important."
"The hardware is basically baked, and what comes next is people discovering better software techniques to take advantage of it, especially in the ordering of the data so it flows through all the caches correctly, and I think there's a lot of opportunity there," he told Total Xbox.
The Xbox One and the PS4 have been stacked up against each other countless of times from specs to price. But as of late, gamers have taken the debate to resolution-gate. Based on several claims and reports, more titles run 1080p on Sony's game console while Microsoft's game box seems to be struggling to keep up with the 1080p native resolution allegedly expected of now current gen game consoles.
Multerer, however, thinks that there is more to a game than resolution. "Part of it is learning how to tune, part of it is I think a very legitimate question of quality of pixels versus number of pixels, and of course both are interesting," he said in the interview
Sucker Punch Productions, creator of PS4 exclusive title Infamous: Second Son and the Infamous franchise earlier remarked how the PS4 has made developing the title quite easier.
"There are practical limits to do what you can do and still have an affordable console, but the hardware design team did a spectacular job of listening to all the game developers, both internal and external and making good decisions," Sucker Punch co-founder Chris Zimmerman said in a recent PlayStation podcast.