Xbox One Resolutiongate: Infinity Ward responds

danabo · 2013-11-04 06:28:39

Hopes for 1080p native with future Xbox One Call of Duty games.By Wesley Yin-Poole Published Monday, 4 November 2013Call of Duty: Ghosts has found itself in the firing line of the next-gen console power war. With Infinity Ward's COD: Ghosts a next-gen launch title, the news that the PlayStation 4 version runs at 1080p resolution native, whereas the Xbox One version runs at 720p native upscaled to 1080p, was seen as a huge blow to Microsoft. This from a game series that over the course of the current-generation has become synonymous with Xbox.Ever since Infinity Ward executive producer tweeted the Call of Duty: Ghosts resolutions, the debate has focused on what it means for comparisons between the PS4 and Xbox One hardware. Here, in an interview with Eurogamer, Rubin offers Infinity Ward's side of the story, revealing the 'engineering nightmare' the developer suffered navigating the shifting waters of next-gen launch dev kits, and insisting it did all it could to optimise the Xbox One version of the game in the months ahead of release.If there is something about the Xbox One hardware that's to blame, it is the way it allocates memory resources, Rubin suggests. As Digital Foundry explains in its recently-published article 'Xbox One Resolutiongate: the 720p fallout', Microsoft's console reserves 10 per cent of GPU time for its operating system. As DF's Richard Leadbetter describes it, features such as Kinect skeletal tracking account for 'precious resources that are inaccessible to game developers'. Rubin discusses this issue, and more, in the below interview.He also suggests future Xbox One Call of Duty games may not suffer a similar resolution issue, as developers further optimise the COD engine and Microsoft - potentially -tweaks the Xbox One's OS reserved memory allocation.FULL ARTICLE HERE

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#51 shellcase86

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@TruthArisen said:

Wonder Woman sheds a tear.

" I shall leave an offering at the temple of Hades, and pray for a quick and painless end to the Xbox 1."

Your post fail to amuse.

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#52 Edited By LJS9502_basic

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@shawn30 said:

@blamix99 said:

RIP XBone, we all saw it coming..

Lol, Sony will be out of business as a company before the Xbox One is dead in any way. Sony is on life support and while the Xbox One is readying to hit store shelves. Maybe you should change that to RIPSony :)

Missing that laughing emoticon....

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#53 AmazonTreeBoa

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@shellcase86 said:

@TruthArisen said:

Wonder Woman sheds a tear.

" I shall leave an offering at the temple of Hades, and pray for a quick and painless end to the Xbox 1."

Your post fail to amuse.

They always do. I don't even bother reading what he types anymore.

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#54 no-scope-AK47

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If the x180 can only do 720p I wonder what the wii u would do at the same graphical settings on COD??

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#55 Edited By AmazonTreeBoa

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@danabo said:

@silversix_ said:

@danabo said:

@silversix_ said:

@danabo said:

@Krelian-co said:

again microsoft is trying to shift all the blame to that 10% but reality is, there must be a way bigger difference than 10% for the difference to be between 1080p and 720p.

I didn't realise IW was part of MS.

@silversix_ said:

ouch but well expected. you all just wait until Forza5 direct feed vids are out, the thing is far from a graphics king.

Forza 5 looks fantastic, and it's a launch title.

Its far from "fantastic" and if it did look fantastic you wouldn't need to add "and its a launch title" at the end of your sentence. Launch title or not, the game doesn't look good outside car visuals that are plagued by jaggies all over the place (reminds me of PGR3 when i thought my brand new HDTV was broken because there was too many jaggies on the screen back in 06 lol)

It looks fantastic. I have Forza 4. Forza 5 looks fantastic. I have no complaints. Try and stay on topic?

what does Forza 4 has to do with anything? You're supposed to see the whole game look significantly better (isn't this the reason you're paying $500?) and that's not the case with Forza 5. This thread isn't about Forza 5 so im not gonna argue but the game comes out in 3 weeks, you'll see what i meant.

It does look significantly better. I'm not sure what your fetish is with Forza 5. Stay on topic.

EDIT: There's a topic for you to complain about the game you can't stop posting about

HERE.

WTF, if you wish for him to stay on topic.....Then stop quoting him!!!!...DERP. How hard is it to figure out that if you stop quoting him, the Forza 5 conversation is over. You know, the conversation you keep going by quoting him, then have the nerve to say stay on topic. Try taking your own advice.

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#56 Edited By blamix99

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@shawn30 said:

@blamix99 said:

RIP XBone, we all saw it coming..

Lol, Sony will be out of business as a company before the Xbox One is dead in any way. Sony is on life support and while the Xbox One is readying to hit store shelves. Maybe you should change that to RIPSony :)

i said XBone not MS lol..

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#57 Multipass35

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Once they really use and offload texture and rending to ESRAM it will do a lot more then anything song is doing. Ryse dominates anything the PS4 has to offer. You know....... That game that won best console graphics at GamesCom.

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#58 Edited By Krelian-co

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@multipass35 said:

Once they really use and offload texture and rending to ESRAM it will do a lot more then anything song is doing. Ryse dominates anything the PS4 has to offer. You know....... That game that won best console graphics at GamesCom.

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#59 Edited By kuu2

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@tormentos said:

@delta3074 said:

@kuu2 said:

In other words. 'We didn't know how to use the new hardware, but in the future we will.' IW lacks the talent currently to handle The One. ;)

Pretty much this

How did you guys react internally? Could Microsoft engineers not have helped?
Mark Rubin: It's not a thing, like pointing to the day he came and said... It wasn't like that. It's a long process. And we're always working with both platforms. There were Microsoft engineers there throughout development.

Yeah ignore this part even with help from MS own engineers they could not reach 1080p 60 FPS.

Not only MS was beaten hardware wise,they also were beaten software wise and ease of use as well,so basically MS has the weaker and harder to code console,this generation will in nothing be like last gen,were Cell was very powerful but hard to code for,the xbox one is weak and hard,so spec probably 900p vs 1080p or 720p vs 900p or 1080p like now.

Hell there are scream already saying that the gap is here to stay because ESRAM will be a problem all generation long.

You still sticking with this Tormy now that the PS4 version has significant framerate problems????

Stick to being Jr. Hardware Engineer for GSpot. You are much easier to laugh at playing that role.

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