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Could @FallGuysGame be coming to Xbox and @XboxGamePass? The official account could be hinting at it.. https://t.co/KnddMQI0Qo
— XboxEra (@TheXboxEra) January 12, 2021
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#727.1Editing a commentOf course it will come to Xbox at some point and Gamepass makes perfect sense. The model that near enough all games will follow eventually is the GAAS model. Put it on Gamepass now to get people engaged and then use a seasons model and cosmetics to get on-going revenue. Xbox giving the Gamepass route instead of just putting it straight out as F2P gives the devs a little bit of revenue up front to keep the lights on until mass engagement gets going and they can get a steady revenue stream from the season passes and cosmetics.
As much as I dislike Fortnite it really did show the way forward for the industry although Microsoft has gone one step further slapped a subscription service over the top of it to get a little more revenue up front before the steady revenue stream gets up to speed. All those naysayers saying that Gamepass is unsustainable long term are not really thinking ahead to the way that games are going to be in the future. We will see less and less sequels and I reckon that most Xbox first party games will release one entry that runs the entire generation with Sea of Thieves being the first one. You can bet on the next Forza MS entry being the only one this gen along with Halo (its not called Infinite for nothing), Everwild (again, its not got Ever in the title for no reason), State Of Decay 3 (probably will just be called The State Of Decay or something), Grounded, Fable amongst many others. There maybe be some smaller titles or spin-offs that are "complete" on release but I expect each first party studio to have at least one long term service game that they run all gen (and beyond). The way that games make money has changed and the way that people consume games has changed.
Take Sea of Thieves for example, I played the game when it first came out and then left it for quite a long time returning recently to it. The game is now phenomenal and is absolutely thriving, the concurrent player numbers are as high as they have ever been and increasing all the time, the game is selling gangbusters on Steam. There is just so much stuff to do on there with layer upon layer of different game loops and content and this month is going to flip into the season pass model. The way that the game world is built with islands is just so flexible when it comes to adding new areas on to the map and in theory they can just keep adding new stuff forever with not just new islands but entire areas dedicated to different types of gameplay. This is how a modern game is built today and I am so happy that MS had confidence in Rare to let them do their own thing and support them through the difficult launch period. That trust is now paying off and there is absolutely no reason why Sea Of Thieves won't be around for years and years to come and generate a shit ton of steady revenue. -
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— Klobrille (@klobrille) January 12, 2021
2021 will be a busy time at Rare, with the successful Sea of Thieves continuing to reinvent itself with significant updates & soon seasons as well as Everwild being well into development. I hope we will learn more about the latter later this year. pic.twitter.com/Hn0Yh2Dp5M
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Today is Phil Spencer Birthday 🎉
— Xbox Battle Grounds (@xboxBG) January 12, 2021
Wishing you a very special birthday and a wonderful year ahead! @XboxP3 pic.twitter.com/lnhgLy9COA
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting a next-gen update:
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) January 12, 2021
• Xbox Series X: 60fps perf mode (up to 1440p) and normal 4K mode with up to 2160p dynamic res
• Xbox Series S: 60fps
• PS5: 60fps, dynamic resolution disabled so game renders at 1200phttps://t.co/QNZT7NlV3e pic.twitter.com/274UWYWuFs
https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/je...ization-update
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— Bethesda (@bethesda) January 12, 2021
OMG, YES!!! https://t.co/HETy6q2w74
— Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼*♂️💚U (@aarongreenberg) January 12, 2021
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Direct X-Static bro you're crazy that word will remain in every post that I put for now on you got it man you got it that's going to be my say for now on.(Let the Pony butt hurt continue!) If you don't mind of course.
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I downloaded the trailer in HD and have been looking for clues.
— Jordan Oloman (@JordanOloman) January 12, 2021
It looks like the @machinegames Indiana Jones project is set in Vatican City in October 1937, at least for some part of it. You can see the Sistine Chapel on the map. pic.twitter.com/yCYnsXWRNj
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We’ve got an exciting update: Gears Tactics and Gears 5 now have VRS Tier 2 support, leading to large perf wins across the full gamut of DX12U HW: Xbox Series X|S, and supported PC HW! Check out this blog post by The Coalition’s own Chris Wallis https://t.co/8dPLP0ANJm
— DirectX 12 (@DirectX12) January 12, 2021
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We’ve got an exciting update: Gears Tactics and Gears 5 now have VRS Tier 2 support, leading to large perf wins across the full gamut of DX12U HW: Xbox Series X|S, and supported PC HW! Check out this blog post by The Coalition’s own Chris Wallis https://t.co/8dPLP0ANJm
— DirectX 12 (@DirectX12) January 12, 2021
Moving Gears to Tier 2 Variable Rate Shading
Chris Wallis, Senior Software Engineer at The Coalition
Tier 2 VRS allowed Gears 5/Tactics to see an up to 14% boost in GPU perf with no perceptible impact to visual quality. It is available on all hardware supporting DirectX 12 Ultimate, including Xbox Series X|S, AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series graphics cards, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series and 30 Series GPUs. Moving to Tier 2
The Xbox Series X|S launch of Gears 5/Tactics and the story DLC Hivebusters added new rendering features including contact shadows and screen space global illumination as well as an emphasis on 60FPS cinematics. While the features had great visual results, they were costly even on high-end GPUs. We investigated ways of keeping 4K and 60 FPS while also maintaining the rich detail of our PC Ultra textures and running these new visual features on both Xbox Series X|S and PC. This led us to revisit some of the VRS work done in Gears Tactics. While the use of Tier 1 VRS in Gears Tactics offered some great performance gains, it had some small compromises to visual quality and didn’t work well with Dynamic Resolution Scaling. As a result, we investigated the extra flexibility allowed in Tier 2 to see if we could solve the Tier 1 shortcomings.
The primary difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2 VRS is granularity. Tier 1 allows you to specify a shading rate per draw. Tier 2 allows you to instead specify the shading rate in a screen space texture. The texture is not 1-1 with the render target but instead specified in coarser VRS tiles of either 8×8 or 16×16 depending on hardware. By analyzing our previous frame’s scene color, this allowed us to output a texture that would apply coarse shading rate only in sections that we’ve determined can reduce shading without causing any perceptible difference. For more details on the VRS API, refer to the VRS announcement.
The relatively simple edge detection filter can find areas of lower frequency detail from a wide variety of passes. These are some common cases the edge detection chooses to reduce the shading rate:- Reduced visibility due to shadowing/low lighting
- Occlusion due to volumetric fog
- Dense translucent particles (i.e. the waterfall)
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"Tier 2 VRS sees higher performance gains when running at higher resolutions. While actual results will vary based on engine and content, we found that resolutions of 1080p or lower saw generally saw diminishing returns from Tier 2 VRS."
I guess that VRS won't work well on Series S, and this quote also explains why Sony didn't invest in VRS for their machine.
"While we were able to implement VRS for all the passes that gave us the biggest bang for the buck, it was not plumbed into the entire engine due to time constraints. A deeper integration would allow VRS to provide even larger GPU savings."
Amazing that VRS is being patched into an old game and isn't even reaching its' full potential yet!
“Software-Based Variable Rate Shading in Call of Duty... present(s) a method leveraging how console hardware handles MSAA to emulate VRS on platforms without hardware VRS support and extra flexibility such as smaller tile sizes. In addition, they present an optimized way to apply VRS to compute shaders that uses ExecuteDispatchIndirect to ensure only waves with actual work are dispatched in contrast to our brute force method. However, Software-Based VRS also has some trade-offs including implementation complexity and the overhead of a de-blocking pass. One possibility is to use a hybrid of both techniques, switching between VRS techniques..."
So VRS on PS5 will only be done in software just like their ray tracing is, while Series X can utilize both hardware and software techniques to even greater effect. Notice the use of the phrase "our brute force methods" though? The Coalition has forced VRS into Gears and it still works this well, so can you imagine what a proper DX12U engine (and UE5) will do for gaming???
Good times ahead for us Xbox and PC fans! 😎👌
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Excited to see Todd Howard and @MachineGames creating a new Indiana Jones game, I cannot wait to learn more. https://t.co/qzjyym0BFC
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) January 12, 2021
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Time to admit I was wrong. Playstation fanboys were right all along. Xbox Game Pass really is only good for Indy games. 😂 #BethesdaXbox pic.twitter.com/GDgcD63cLI
— SenjutsuSage (@SenninSage) January 12, 2021
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There's a lot of money flowing around gaming companies right now, several getting multiple bids - not sure when or if any of these will close but gaming IP valuations are soaring
— Brad Sams (@bdsams) January 12, 2021
Come on Microsoft, don't hold back the moneyyyyy!!!😎
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You know what Microsoft release it on Playstation when you see uncharted on Xbox if you don't see uncharted on Xbox do not release that game and Playstation that's it.
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Pony logic (Stupidity) in a nutshell. 😂🤣😂🤣
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Last week I wrote my final line of dialog for Psychonauts 2. I never remember to celebrate these things because there's always more work to do, but I want to say hey, that's cool. Now I should light a single cigarette like that guy in Misery and get my legs hobbled by Kathy Bates pic.twitter.com/maGKJzZuO3
— TimOfLegend (@TimOfLegend) January 12, 2021
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