First, lets clear up some things:
There is a current misconception on GAF going on, where people believe that for the coming years we will not see any Xbox Series X only games, that ALL games will be on Xbox One too for the coming years. People on this board startet from saying for the first 2 years, then 3 years and even 4 years.
This is all wrong. In fact:
There will be Xbox Series X only games DAY ONE at launch of Xbox Series X.
So, how did it even come to this misconception?
In November 2019, at the X19 fan fest, there has been an interview:
“As our content comes out over the next year, two years, all of our games, sort of like PC, will play up and down that family of devices,” Booty explains. “We want to make sure that if someone invests in Xbox between now and [Series X] that they feel that they made a good investment and that we’re committed to them with content.”
What does that mean?
For XBOX Game Studios games, yes XBOX Game studios games - and no this does NOT include 3rd Party games - starting from November 2019 and then for two years, all Xbox Studio games will be on Xbox One.
So, only for the first year of the launch of Xbox Series X, there will be games on Xbox One.
Starting on November 2020 there will be Xbox Series X games only from Xbox Game Studios.
Again, note how this only applies to Xbox Game Studios. 3rd Party developers will and are allowed to develop Xbox Series X only games DAY ONE and at launch of Xbox Series X.
Source: https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news...ame-studios-matt-booty-on-the-future-of-xbox/
In fact, there are already games announced to be coming to Xbox Series X and not to Xbox One:
The Medium:
Scorn:
For Medium the developer confirmed that this game would not be possible on currentgen in an interview in the way it is right now:
So, truth is:
DAY ONE, at launch of Xbox Series X, there will be Xbox Series X only games, that are NOT going to launch on currentgen consoles. According to the developer the games would not be possible on currentgen, that’s why it’s coming to nextgen only.
Only for the first year of Xbox Series X the games from coming from Xbox Game Studios will come to Xbox One too.
After that, so starting November 2021 Xbox Game Studios will come only to Xbox Series X.
Now, what does it mean for the games? Even if Xbox Studios would release they games at launch for XBOX Series X only, it would not matter much.
Usually, when a console releases, developers will not use all of its power, that's because they simply don''t have enough time to use the console for developing the game.
It takes time until the console is finalized, it takes time until the devkits is finalized, the devs simply don't have enough time with the finalized tools to have true AAA nextgen games ready at launch.
AAA exclusive games take years until they are ready, just look at the Last of Us Part II for example, this one took almost the entire generation. It's not like the games mentioned above, those are indie games/small scale games, you can't compare that to an AAA game, those take much longer to develop. They need much more time to prepare and they need more time with the final devkit to be actually able to develop those games. These won't be ready for launch.
Do not expect Unreal Engine 5 demo level graphics for the launch of the nextgen consoles.
Unreal Engine 5 will be released Holiday 2021 - when XSX only games will be released from Xbox Studios. How will a dev develop a UE5 engine games at holiday 2020, when the engine itself isn't even ready before holiday 2021?
That's also why for every generation the launch games look much worse than the games later on, when devs have the final devkits, and when they have resources and time to develop nextgen games.
tl;dr: For every console generations - at launch - the games won't take the full amount of power of the console, it will take time until devs have the finalized devkits and it will take time until devs can utilize that power to create true AAA next-gen games, so don't be disappointed if the games this year won't be true nextgen games. We can expect this Holiday 2021, when devs have enough time to create those games.
There is a current misconception on GAF going on, where people believe that for the coming years we will not see any Xbox Series X only games, that ALL games will be on Xbox One too for the coming years. People on this board startet from saying for the first 2 years, then 3 years and even 4 years.
This is all wrong. In fact:
There will be Xbox Series X only games DAY ONE at launch of Xbox Series X.
So, how did it even come to this misconception?
In November 2019, at the X19 fan fest, there has been an interview:
“As our content comes out over the next year, two years, all of our games, sort of like PC, will play up and down that family of devices,” Booty explains. “We want to make sure that if someone invests in Xbox between now and [Series X] that they feel that they made a good investment and that we’re committed to them with content.”
What does that mean?
For XBOX Game Studios games, yes XBOX Game studios games - and no this does NOT include 3rd Party games - starting from November 2019 and then for two years, all Xbox Studio games will be on Xbox One.
So, only for the first year of the launch of Xbox Series X, there will be games on Xbox One.
Starting on November 2020 there will be Xbox Series X games only from Xbox Game Studios.
Again, note how this only applies to Xbox Game Studios. 3rd Party developers will and are allowed to develop Xbox Series X only games DAY ONE and at launch of Xbox Series X.
Source: https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news...ame-studios-matt-booty-on-the-future-of-xbox/
In fact, there are already games announced to be coming to Xbox Series X and not to Xbox One:
The Medium:
Scorn:
For Medium the developer confirmed that this game would not be possible on currentgen in an interview in the way it is right now:
The Medium Will Be Xbox Series X Exclusive, Here's Why
During last week's InsideXbox, Microsoft had the chance to show us The Medium for the first time. Although fans were left discontent with the game
segmentnext.com
So, truth is:
DAY ONE, at launch of Xbox Series X, there will be Xbox Series X only games, that are NOT going to launch on currentgen consoles. According to the developer the games would not be possible on currentgen, that’s why it’s coming to nextgen only.
Only for the first year of Xbox Series X the games from coming from Xbox Game Studios will come to Xbox One too.
After that, so starting November 2021 Xbox Game Studios will come only to Xbox Series X.
Now, what does it mean for the games? Even if Xbox Studios would release they games at launch for XBOX Series X only, it would not matter much.
Usually, when a console releases, developers will not use all of its power, that's because they simply don''t have enough time to use the console for developing the game.
It takes time until the console is finalized, it takes time until the devkits is finalized, the devs simply don't have enough time with the finalized tools to have true AAA nextgen games ready at launch.
AAA exclusive games take years until they are ready, just look at the Last of Us Part II for example, this one took almost the entire generation. It's not like the games mentioned above, those are indie games/small scale games, you can't compare that to an AAA game, those take much longer to develop. They need much more time to prepare and they need more time with the final devkit to be actually able to develop those games. These won't be ready for launch.
Do not expect Unreal Engine 5 demo level graphics for the launch of the nextgen consoles.
Unreal Engine 5 will be released Holiday 2021 - when XSX only games will be released from Xbox Studios. How will a dev develop a UE5 engine games at holiday 2020, when the engine itself isn't even ready before holiday 2021?
That's also why for every generation the launch games look much worse than the games later on, when devs have the final devkits, and when they have resources and time to develop nextgen games.
tl;dr: For every console generations - at launch - the games won't take the full amount of power of the console, it will take time until devs have the finalized devkits and it will take time until devs can utilize that power to create true AAA next-gen games, so don't be disappointed if the games this year won't be true nextgen games. We can expect this Holiday 2021, when devs have enough time to create those games.