Crytek: The PS4 Pro and Xbox Scorpio Will Eliminate “Some Of The Limitations”

Crytek: The PS4 Pro and Xbox Scorpio Volition Eliminate "Some Of The Limitations"

Crytek seems optimistic about Sony'due south and Microsoft'south mid-generation consoles, and according to Crytek's game designer Niklas Walenski, both the PS4 Pro and Xbox Scorpio will remove some limitations which will allow for crisper visuals, larger worlds, and much more rendering.

In a blog post on the official Crytek blog, Walenski writes that developers are always limited to some extent, and usually this has something to do with the amount of available power in a organization. The new hardware within the PS4 Pro and Xbox Scorpio, volition remove some of the constraints.

"We are ever express to some extent in videogame development, and nosotros accept to work within certain constraints that are usually related to the power of a system versus what we would like to practise. Merely new hardware inevitably removes some of the limitations. We tin create bigger worlds, return much more than, and have more complex systems running our ideas."

"Each panel has its ain twist to it, but there are standards between them. If a console has a unique peripheral yous have to remember a little differently virtually it, merely in general they tend to share key similarities. So new hardware doesn't commonly tend to nowadays the same issues as a new medium like VR, where we're having to throw away a lot of the things we did earlier, or iterate on them, because they just don't work anymore. Instead, you're essentially gaining varying degrees of boosted power to play with."

Prior to the electric current generation of panel, console cycles have been rather long, and co-ordinate to Walenski, this wasn't necessarily a good thing as devs were leap to certain limitations for a longer period.

"We had a very long console cycle with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which is good for developers from i standpoint, because you know exactly what yous're working with and tin refine things more than and more over the years. But, on the other hand, there were certain limitations you were always operating within, and you were spring to those while technology raced alee. A lot can change in seven or eight years. Ultimately, though, we volition accept to look and meet what anybody has planned."

Upon release of the PS4 Pro on November 10, the standard PS4 volition be 3 years old. Microsoft's Xbox Scorpio will release next year, and the electric current Xbox One console will plow 4 years by then. Microsoft's Phil Spencer recently commented on Sony's PS4 Pro reveal, stating that they did a "nice job". He added that he'due south very happy with Microsoft's own plans for the future.

Do you hold with Walenski that the PS4 Pro and Xbox Scorpio will remove some of the power limitations for developers? Would y'all rather have longer console cycles? Hit the comments below.