How difficult would it be to bring a game like Civilization or SimCity to Xbone?

Mafivee · Jun 8, 2014

Being a fan of RTS games I would like to see games like AoE on console with the same capabilities as the PC versions. The Sims on console is very disappointing in the way it has the build meter which limits the game a lot and if they removed that for The
Sims 4 when they eventually bring it to console, it might be worth a purchase.

smileskybird · Jun 8, 2014

I loved the effort still how they brought The Sims 3 to Xbox 360. Lots of peps had issues of the game crashing on their PC's. If you can't play it on PC, you can play it on Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 version of Sims 3 is severely limited but still enjoyable.
Since Xbox 1 has an AMD 8-CORE Jaguar APU and 8GB DDR3 RAM (5GB's for gaming), and x84-64 architecture, and with experience on the Xbox 360 version (they released 2 versions, The Sims 3, and The Sims 3 Pets), it should be easier to put it on Xbox 1 and...
be able to switch to different areas of the town without waiting for a 30 second loading screen. You can load different areas of the map on the PC version without waiting for any loading screens on the PC version of The Sims 3.

Sipuli91 · Oct 31, 2018

I don't see how Civ would be hard to bringto consoles properly since it's not even RTS requiring intense micro managing etc.

Sipuli91

I don't see how Civ would be hard to bringto consoles properly since it's not even RTS requiring intense micro managing etc.

Dangerboy4020

I don't think sim city's controls would transfer well to controller.

voteDC

[quote user="XJaeX"]built around SteamOS.[/quote]The SteamOS is a linux distribution with Steam branding. It isn't going to cause a massive shift toward PC style gaming on a 'console' because most games on Steam don't run on linux.

If the SteamBoxes do somehow suddenly make developers and publishers want to support linux with their games, then there may be something to worry about.

However I don't see that happening, even with the backing of Valve, for quite some time.

As much as I hate to agree with Az, he's right in this case. It's all down to how they adapt the control scheme. Command and Conquers on the Sega Saturn got the controls right, for example, but those of Halo Wars on the 360 were bloody awful.

VulturineGore65

Civilization V would be perfectly possible on the Xbox One, even with a controller. The Xbox One has the processing, graphical horsepower and RAM to run this game. The Xbox One has 5GB of RAM for games, the recommended for the PC version is 4GB.

Sims 4 is due for release on the PC platform in the autumn of this year. EA tends to make a console version soon after. My guess is the next gen console releases of the Sims should more closely match the PC version this time. Not been a fan of the console
versions of the Sims, they're pretty scaled back compared to PC, the Sims 3 was. Should be different this time round.

eviltedi

I don't think it will be difficult to bring PC games to the Xbox One, I think we'll see them over time, the following is an interesting read if you have not already seen it,

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Xbox One running Windows 8 apps.

How difficult would it be to bring a game like Civilization or SimCity to Xbone?