Xbox One X Pre-Orders Open Again Today, List Of "Enhanced" Titles Grows

@playstationzone: Xbox one has plenty of multi platform games , what are you talking about?

@playstationzone: In english?

@playstationzone: So much cringe. Smh a word of advice kiddo, shh.

@Runeweaver: The thing is they don't have any games this holiday to sell, but they do have the new console and battlegrounds. But the early part of the new year they (should) have Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2 and Crackdown 3. So their line-up for early 2018 looks decent.... but what's after that?

@Runeweaver: the XBX will sell alot over the holiday period and outsell Sony and Nintendo for a couple of months.

I don't think so. I don't think it will outsell Switch. But let's see how many sheep are actually out there. I think you'll be surprised

@videogameninja:I agree. Two key simple words that i repeat over and over again. CHECKERBOARD RENDERING! This is why Sony will wait and why it makes sense.

We aren't quite in the era of 4K gaming just yet. In fact, we're barely at the cusp. The games haven't quite caught up to the improved console hardware, and that hardware itself needs to get even better before "true" 4K gaming becomes commonplace.

There are currently no big jumps Sony and Microsoft's marketing would like you to believe. Using the new, more powerful hardware isn't mandatory. Developers can use it if they want, or not, depending on their preference (or more likely, their development budget). They can also pick and choose, adding additional rendering resolution upping the frame rate, or adding in things like HDR or better anti-aliasing.

For example as you know Xbox One S can't do "true" 4K gaming at all -- you're only getting an upconversion of Xbox One games. Sony says the PS4 Pro is technically capable of native 4K gaming, but most titles do not reach that maximum resolution. It renders most games at a lower resolution and upconvert to 4K. This is something consoles have done from the beginning.

In other words, the rendering resolution of a game is different from its output resolution.

Say you're playing CODBLOPS 9: Mission to Maui. The console creates everything in the world you see. The trees, the ocean, the mai-tais, everything. The process of creating a game on-the-fly is called rendering, and it takes a lot of processing power. Once you start throwing in angry seagulls and weaponized seals (the flappy kind), the limited hardware in the console starts to chug.

Most game designers want to keep the frame rate smooth (so you don't get choppy motion). They also don't want to reduce the number of items in the world. The solution is to reduce the rendering resolution. So instead of 1,920x1,080 pixels (1080p), the game is rendered at, perhaps, 1,600x900. Then, a separate upconverter makes sure your TV still gets 1080p, even though the game is really a lot less.

This was one of the worst kept secrets in gaming, since pretty much every console does it. One of the best things about the PS4 and Xbox One was the promise of true 1080p gaming, since we hardly ever got that with the earlier PS3 and Xbox 360.

Now we'll see the same thing with 4K. A game could be rendered at 1,920x1,080 (or more), but output at 3,840x2,160 (4K). How big of a difference will we see between upconverted-4K and true-4K games? Again, it depends on the game. If the textures, which are essentially the wallpaper used to cover the frames and structures in the game, are 4K resolution, then the upconverted version won't look as detailed as a native 4K version. If the textures are lower resolution, then the upconverted version might look a little better than the same game running at 1080p on the base PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, but the difference won't be drastic.

Textures can be upconverted, but you can't upconvert is the polygons, which comprise the frame and structure of what you see in the game. So while the edges of upconverted games might be sharper than 1080p, the game won't look more "real."

Now please don't get me started on microchips -state and prices of those.

Don't expect PS5 before 2020

@videogameninja: ps4pro was just released last year. The next device from sony amd Microsoft will be a portable playstation 4 and xb1 with the same power as the originals. This will cover all levels for their devices.