Microsoft Reportedly Relaxing Xbox One Kinect Requirements, Giving GPU Power A Boost

I hope this article is true and hopefully will be in the next couple of patches.

http://www.hothardware.com/News/Microsoft-Reportedly-Relaxing-Kinect-Requirements-Returning-GPU-Power-To-Primary-Console/

Mr. B

"Beefed up 360". That's another nails head taking a pounding!

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Do you reckon they are getting a bit worried about developers struggling to get on par performance with their PS4 counterpart? All the news seems to be at the moment is 30 fps v 60fps fanboy stuff.

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No.



The console is selling well and considering it outsold Sony's offering in the USA in December the ONE has probably exceeded expectations.

Yes, a lot of focus is going to be on Destiny and how each version performs. Of course, anything less than PS4 frame rates then it's going to be armageddon amongst the fan boy masses. Will have my popcorn ready waiting on the IGN comments section.

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We've all read a lot of speculation and reasoning behind the whole thing about X1 not hitting the same framerates/resolutions as it's market rival.

Some say it's the architecture to blame, some says it's down to the DX11 drivers and others just out and out say it's not as powerful.

All these "experts" and people "in the know" can't seem to make their minds up, but I'm sure MS know what's what.

Now there's this thing about freeing up more power being news and a further sign of the consoles weakness.... I'm pretty sure SONY have already done the same thing with the PS4, as in given devs access to resources previously dedicated to the OS or something.
I'm positive I read it somewhere a while back.

Will this affect how much devs bother to integrate Kinect in games? No more than currently I don't think. Sure, almost every game so far on X1 has had some kind of Kinect feature, but in some cases it's literally just been the odd voice command (BF4, Lego
Marvel and NFS).

Until we see more multi-platform games later on in the console lifecycle that have had more time in development I honestly don't think we see the true power/faults of either new-gen systems.

At the end of the day though, so long as the games are fun and poor performance doesn't cripple them then who cares.

(that was a bit of a ramble, sorry)

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I'm totally with you there, I don't give a rats behind as long as the games are fun and games still can be fun even if their not running at 1080p/60fps.

Trouble is though, you know what a lot of people are like, especially on the internet, if every game is not running at 1080/60fps then it's a complete disaster and like mentioned above there's so much talk about it at the moment maybe Microsoft are getting
a little nervous?

As you said, it's early days yet but I think when games like Destiny, Watch Dogs, The Division , The Crew arrive and we still hear these stories then more people will be asking questions.