According to the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, the 8K they are very far from being one standard for video games. If they ever will. In the same interview Spencer confessed that even ray tracing, for the moment, has not been able to impress as he had predicted.
In the chat he had with Wired, the Xbox boss proved rather dubious that 8K could be one. standard for video games, at least for the next few years.
“I believe 8K is a goal to aim for“he said.”But the graphics capabilities of the devices are not ready yet. I think we’re years away from 8K being the video game standard, if it ever will be.”
To explain this statement Liz HamrenXbox’s head of gaming engineering said people owning a 4K television are far fewer than big publishers seem to think.
For this reason it is better to focus on 4K with Xbox Series X and 1440p with Xbox Series S and ensure “realistic lighting, accurate reflections and real-time acoustics“as Microsoft promised at the time.
When it was pressed that upon implementation of the ray tracing failed to guarantee this visual quality, Spencer admitted that “that’s probably true. When I think of games in which ray tracing has drastically improved my experience as a gamer, the memories are mixed.”
What do you think of these statements?
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