Under most circumstances I would agree, but with talent like Raymond, Staten and Casey (because he was mentioned) I think it's worth it to pursue that avenue if those individuals are interested. You're better having them represent your 1st party as opposed to your competitors.
I don't know what that means. I just use the eye test. SD to HD, that's a huge leap. 30 fps to 60 is what I would qualify as a minor upgrade. I find it funny in Digital Foundry videos when they slow the footage down to 25% speed, zoom in like 200% and count the pixels on a shadow off in the distance then say it's a huge difference. If I look at two side by side screenshots of a game running on different hardware and can't tell which is which inside of 5 seconds, I wouldn't call it a big difference.
Agree 100%. Also atriox is the best villain halo has ever had so it would be a travesty to not have him go head to head against cheif.
Doubtful. Halo's engine is designed for what Halo needs. Devs would need to do a bunch of work to get it to work well for the stuff other games need. It's one of the reasons they've embraced UE4 so much.
Based on what I saw in the game engine, it looks very dynamic.
I doubt it. Unreal Engine seems to be used for most of the 1st party.
This is an NVMe SSD:
Here is an NVMe drive next to your standard SATA SSD. Main difference is mainly size lol, but also look at the connector:
"SATA" is the normal interface that connects hard drives to computers. They made some upgrades to it to make use of the speed of SSDs, and make no mistake, normal SATA SSDs are very fast. But NVMe are faster, and smaller, and needed a new connector, to make things simple.
NVMes are obviously more expensive, but an option would be really cool to have I agree. Just a slot for it, if people wanted to.
Regardless, some how, some way, I want an option to upgrade internal storage.
This is an NVMe SSD:
Here is an NVMe drive next to your standard SATA SSD. Main difference is mainly size lol, but also look at the connector:
"SATA" is the normal interface that connects hard drives to computers. They made some upgrades to it to make use of the speed of SSDs, and make no mistake, normal SATA SSDs are very fast. But NVMe are faster, and smaller, and needed a new connector, to make things simple.
NVMes are obviously more expensive, but an option would be really cool to have I agree. Just a slot for it, if people wanted to.
Regardless, some how, some way, I want an option to upgrade internal storage.
You saw a video and all of a sudden you think it's a very dynamic engine?
Just because Microsoft has resources doesn't mean that they want to commit those resources to making a "universal" game engine. Not when there are already third party engines out there and then competing with Epic for Unreal Engine...thatll be tough. I could only see them buying an engine like Unity.
And what would be the difference between a HDD, a SDD and an NVMe ? Shorter loadings? And how much would it cost for 1Tb?
Gears doesn't look as good? Alright. I'll come back at a different subject.
I doubt they are done. Most of it seems to be filling gaps in their portfolio, so I get the feeling some Japanese studios must be in the pipeline, especially with their recent Japanese office extension.
I agree with this too. MS relies heavily on UE4. Some of their devs do some good work with UE but they need an engine built from the ground up to take advantage of Scarlett next gen. They can't keep using UE with the hopes of creating the best looking titles next gen. 343i knows what's up. They are building their own engine... It would be really cool if Rare, NT, Obsidian, PGG, TC and TI all built their own engines and the smaller devs i.e CG and UL could work with any of these engines. Most of the best looking games out there are built on custom engines..
