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E3 2017: Destiny 2 On Xbox One X Runs At 30 FPS, Just Like PS4 Pro

It won't be 60 FPS, as it can on PC.

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Destiny 2 will not run at 60 FPS even on Xbox One X, leaving the PC version as the only one to make that possible. Game director Luke Smith confirmed the game runs at 30 FPS on Xbox One X at E3 this week when he appeared on Geoff Keighley's show to reveal some technical detail. 30 FPS is the same frame rate as Destiny 2 on PS4 Pro.

Some thought Destiny 2 might run at a higher frame rate on Xbox One X because the console is more powerful than PS4 Pro, but that's not going to be the case, it seems. One possibility is that Bungie wanted to keep the frame rate the same on platforms to ensure the experience is as close to the same as possible--a subject Phil Spencer discussed with us at E3. "30 frames per second on all consoles," Smith said. The PC edition of Destiny 2, meanwhile, has an uncapped frame rate and other PC-specific features.

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In other Destiny 2 news, the game's beta trial dates have been revealed, with Activision confirming that pre-order customers will be able to play the beta on PlayStation 4 starting July 18, and on Xbox One beginning July 19. The beta will end on both platforms on July 23. The company also stated that a PC beta is planned for late August, with more details coming "soon."

Additionally, Destiny 2's release date has been moved up slightly, now launching on September 6, while the PC version will launch on October 24. You can read a lot more about Destiny 2 from its official reveal, including about how it's adding the ability for solo players to find groups to play Raids with. At its E3 2017 press conference, Sony also showed a cinematic trailer that suggested a strong story focus for the game.

As for Xbox One X, the more powerful console launches on November 7, priced at $500. A number of analysts believe that price point is too high.

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@xboxonex: so you think XboxX is that much more powerful that in can run the same game at double the resolution and double the fps? I wonder what's your story on why gears 4 won't get the 60fps treatment ob campaign like it did on PC.

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@xboxonex: A lot of effort for nothing... would you like some tin foil?

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@xboxonex: Trolling and Bait only work if people can be bothered to read what you post, So 10 out of 10 for the biggest wall I've seen in along time, but 1 out of 10 for bait effectiveness.

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@xboxonex: covfefe

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@xboxonex: Is that you Trump?

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@xboxonex: It took me two hours to read that but you are right that's definitely the force behind this 30fps. Bungie is looking at the big picture with this game and their exclusivity n marketing deals with Sony too.

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@xboxonex: Paragraphs are your friend. Don't shun them.

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@analgrin: I give you guys thumbs up. I wasn't going bother even to read it with based on his username, knew it was biased information

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@xboxonex: lol, I didnt even read the comment, just saw a huge block of words. Keep ranting though.

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@xboxonex: nope, still haven't.

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@xboxonex: You just made a shitload of assumptions about someone just because he had the audacity to tell you to make your posts readable.

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@OtakuD50: Yeah, He had the audacity to call me a "sony pony or pc elitist" when he's the one with the fanboy username, smh?

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@OtakuD50: Right! that was a big ass wall.

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@xboxonex: its superior in some ways, not vastly, and it'll never beat a pc because they're always interchangeable and upgrade able.

The ps pro and xbox one x are cash cows they dont bring to much more too the console table (which i own) for your money.

Ill keep my ps4 and xbox one and buy a pc with the £500 EACH ill need to upgrade consoles and gain true 4k at 60 frames or higher.

i welcome your enthusiasm however, a true gamers passion.

:)

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@xboxonex: i never said, you did say it was gonna be better than 90% or pc rigs forever or implied that either!!

With respect and this is a light hearted discussion from a passionate gamer to another, the xbox one x clearly out classes the ps pro in some areas if not most, ill agree.

With regard to the pc costing, so i spent £400 on a ps4 on release, to upgrade i need to spend another £400 minimum to pro (or xbox one to X) thats a total of £800-£900 to get the pc equivalent (uk not us) so yeah your right approx $1800 which you already spent anyway buying the console(S).

Further more the pc equivalent will run 4k at 60 frames, the ps-pro and xbox one X still only runs SOME games at 60 frames not all of them, most at 30 frames (so far) for the same money, not vastly superior.

happy gaming :)

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is that 30 fps at 4K or just 1080? if 4K then I can understand, otherwise what's the point of new consoles?

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:)

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spend £450 for 30 FPS ?

you gotta be kidding.

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Shit dev/lazy dev team (and tight activision) as Destiny 2 looks wank on consoles at 30 fps its 2017 not 1917 and won't be much better on PC as shit level design etc and a boring grind with 0.0000001% for drops no thanks I'll skip it. They had an excuse on ps3 and 360 as was restricted to level design, then engine looks shit compared to

Anthem from bioware is how destiny should look like and world seems more alive compared to little areas in destiny (its prob the 20 year old call of duty engine with some tweaks Activision seems to want to use)

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@balders74: 1917? lol please freaking PC can't even run more than 1MB RAM. So i dont know why you expect 30 FPS in 1917

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Yay 6x2 120.

3×2 360

So that means i know the power.

Now no reply or I'll eat your face off.

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PC remains the best, and no one anywhere is even mildly surprised.

Console trash.

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@Richardthe3rd: You are right sir, now back to playing Horizon Zero Dawn on ps4 pro... till this day still the best looking game out yet!

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@Richardthe3rd: They all have pros and cons. Whats the point of saying that based on this article anyways. Its pretty childish,

Of course an open platform is most powerful when we can pick our parts and build it our way. If everyone gave a damn about PC gaming there would be no consoles.

I love my PC but my all time favorite games have only been released on PS consoles, like, Sony just nails it with first party games. I dont buy a gaming system based on power but on the quality of games overall.

Yes PC is the most powerful but not always the best and no one anywhere is mildly interested in hearing that all the time. Its Xbox Vs PS tech wise. Switch, PC and handheld systems are doing things on their own.

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@dudebropartyyo: what horseshit.

You're literally allowing Sony and MS to dominate the conversation, saying things like "it's PS vs MS tech wise" and allowing them to lynchpin the industry to their consoles lackluster and honestly hilariously sad capabilities. And as a result, console adoption is dropping.

Consoles force devs to curate and limit content to a platform that isn't just technologically inferior; they don't offer the best experiences, they aren't flexible and they increase the cost to play and erode value. Sony and MS have lost ground this gen because people are getting sick of it.

Hoarding exclusives remains a terrible practice; you reach an objectively smaller audience and fracture the community for a title. Even if you go multiplat the variations between versions are likely enough to justify separating them. Look at Destiny 2.

Sony and MS remain relevant artificially and because of tradition; they aren't doing anything better and bank on the misinformation of users who allow thenselves to be restricted for simple convenience. Resting on practices that are outdated is how industries die and Consoles are approaching that reality if they don't do something.

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@dudebropartyyo: Dude telling people to act like adults here is a lost cause. I don't think any platform is better, it just comes down to the individual. Myself I have all the consoles and a PC, PC is my main platform, but I just enjoy playing games, so platform doesn't mean much to me, gaming is gaming.

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@dudebropartyyo: I have to agree with you that the sony first party are the best ones, like uncharted and last of us. but this is not enough to justify using a console that barely can reach 1080p 60fps. besides, console version of games are more expensive and seldom has good deals. so I dumped my ps4 and now I am gaming on a gtx1080ti.

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@darth_gus: another one who doesnt know how it works....playstation has a little feature called gameshare, day 1 releases are 30 bucks, stop saying console games are more expensive, because they arent....on day 1 i got witcher 3 30 bucks, day 1 gta 5 30 bucks......no one anywhere got day 1 witcher 3 on pc for 30, no one got gta 5 for 30 dollars on pc, hell i dont even think they are 30 on steam right now lol....my pc is great, wouldnt trade my console in for it though...how would i play baseball? football?? pc isnt for everybody...some of us enjoy games other than rts, simulations, and racing

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@dev-raid1: you're horribly mistaken if you think you can't find day 1 deals like that on PC. Very, very sadly mistaken.

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@Richardthe3rd: no i am not, im also a pc gamer those lies dont work on me.....not from steam, cdkeys,gog, gmg a2g none of them so quit while you are behind

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@dev-raid1: "Those lies don't work on me."

That's right, stick your head in the sand, because that's the only way you can paint the lame ass rosy picture of value for those trash DRM boxes you covet.

You can get many major releases massively, massively discounted on day 1 on PC. And if you wait a month it's even more ludicrous; an easy thing to do when you don't have generational divides partitioning your backlog to other platforms.

I've got major releases for less than $30.00 quite frequently on day 1; PC is the platform that made that a thing and there's a vast, multi-market economy that makes that possible. And I didn't have to abuse a system by joining a game share group and handing out my credentials to do it.

Deal with it.

You're a pretty awful PC gamer if those are the analogies you need to make to justify console being cheaper. It's certainly not when it comes to games, by any stretch. But enjoy the fantasy.

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@darth_gus: I get good deals on PS4 games all the time don't know what you are talking about. Used games are usually cheaper than a steam version when they aren't on sale, and waiting for every single game to be on sale is terrible.

Regardless I don't see my enjoyment of a game decreasing from a game not hitting 1080p 60fps let alone 4k. Horizon: Zero Dawn is still one of the best experiences I've had outside of my HTC Vive.

In the end gameplay/story/many other factors are more important than graphics, and the PS4 has way too many exclusives to miss out on.

Until the majority of great games end up on PC I will always have a console around, probably 2 depending on how Nintendo does with the switch and future consoles.

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@nedrith: I managed to buy 12 games when I owned a ps4 and some games costing 55 usd. now my steam account is barely one year old and I have 158 games on it, maybe 3 or 4 indies, all the others are Triple A games.

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@darth_gus: Yes but also remember we are talking about Destiny here, so to me thats judging the systems based on one game being 30fps which is more of a developer choice instead of systems fault. All 4 versions of the consoles should run this game at 60fps and two upgraded models should handle 60fps at 4K.

But yeah thats fair enough. I always had a PS next to my PC so will continue tradition. Im retiring my launch PS4 and upgrading to Pro around xmass period. If it was up to me PC would be the only gaming system (not including handhelds) not because of the power aspect but because that way there would be no exclusives and everyone could play any game from any period on one system.

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*tries to hold laugh*

If people hadn't been so annoying over how everything was going to run at 60fps 4K this wouldn't have been so funny.

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This is gonna be the problem with Xbox One X... all that power, but there's no way 3rd party devs are gonna put all the work into beefing up their games for a relatively small percentage of the market.

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@tom_cat_01: How does that crow taste BTW?

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-native-1080p-allows-you-to-be-a-better-gamer/1100-6416145/

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@netiger: .....not sure what that has do with whats he said.

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@netiger: ... ... eh?

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LOL consoles. Garbage.

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Almost all 3rd party games will be on par with the Pro, in other words, 30fps. Just like Destiny dumbed down the game for Xbox One to have parity between PS4.

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@joshrmeyer: i dont think this has anything to do with the pro or the ps in general ....

""no one gets left behind in the xbox family""

so destiny has to run with og x box and x box one s ..... thats my take on ""on all consoles"" its within the x box family and so no dis advantages between that player base ..... seeing how this game dosnt cross play with the ps severs

and as i here in reply to your comment on vr .... 3 games so far that uses that light gun will be worth the purchase of that accessory and for me personally final fantasy vr with promto will be worth the jump alone ..... im just waiting still for more game in the line to justify it - 6 games so far

i havnt tried any vr as yet or jumped on the Samsung version how is it from your point of view?

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@Flyin3lvl: The Samsung one is a blur unless you have it positioned just right on your face. Only a small portion of the screen is in focus even then(peripheral vision is blurry) It's neat for what it is and the price it's at though. And I figured out I'm definitely one of those people that need to sit down to play anything lol. A few demos say to stand... I couldn't keep my balance. Hopefully psvr will take off this year and maybe a price drop. The more I look at the latest bunch of games, the more I'm wanting it again.

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@joshrmeyer: still, sounds like a good taster of what vr is and what it can do - but i do have the concern of motion sickness and with out research i think most if not all psvr games are made for sit down and stand up is optional - i see demo videos of it out in public and people standing up but in the official ads they sitting down ......

at the moment there is bundles and deals in a ""ps4 days of play"" promotion and good prices - just cant go for it when in the process of moving :( and needing new stuff important stuff apparently

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@Flyin3lvl: There's a demo on the gear VR where you're standing on top of a skyscraper and a robot is flinging things at you and breaking buildings. I made the mistake of looking down. Almost smashed my face lol. I tried it again holding onto the couch... Still almost fell. Next was sitting down and I was ok but still had that uneasy feeling. It's so weird how that can actually trick your brain even though you know it isn't real. I'm curious if there's some stage fright app for it lol.

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@joshrmeyer: I'm pretty sure Destiny, the game, doesn't have the power itself to "dumb down" the game. Bungie on the other hand, does.

I would say the desired parity for the last title was mainly due to it being cross generation. You have to keep in mind when Destiny came out. There were still a lot of people that hadn't made the shift to the current gen of consoles. Whether this is viewed as a good or bad thing is up for infinite debate, depending which way you look at it.

Either way, it was still a damn smart move from a business perspective.

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@HippyTrippy: True, maybe the PS3 and 360 held the graphics or fps back. I know they had to drop support of them on the last dlc because those systems were too weak to do what they wanted.

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Could actually be due to the companies partnership with Sony. Or it could be because they dont want to give pro or x owners an fps advantage over base model players.

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@strothers101: Lazy programming and sony exclusive as if there machine can;t run at 60fps here a million pounds activision make sure destiny on xb1 X runs at 30fps. runs at 60fps on pc and playstation 2 pro.

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Called it.

Although let's face it, it's more likely the thing just can't do more than 30 fps. I'd totally trade 4k for 1080/60fps with HDR anyway. 4K people are whacko.

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