Right but are you getting the heavily crushed blacks? I'm not debating the UI thumbnail is a difference image. I'm asking whether or not the game has severely crushed blacks because I am not getting that image at all.
Okay, I can confirm, there is a change. I went into the game, Xbone is setup to 1080p, I'm at the character selection screen, it looks like the first image with Jago.
I press the Xbox logo button, the game freezes for a second, note the screen doesn't go black, but you can see it's taking a "buffer" style image for the metro UI, and in that split second when that image is frozen it most certainly looks like the second screen showing Jago.
The jaggies and color wash are present.
Seeing it in action though, I will assume this is capturing a still image for a thumbnail like preview for the UI Metro, thus it is lower quality (probably hard coded into the game.)
But right now I can confirm I see both examples of the two images shown. I doubt I can time it fast enough to capture a picture with my phone, but it is clearly there.
I will now test by setting the console to 720p.
Right but are you getting the heavily crushed blacks? I'm not debating the UI thumbnail is a difference image. I'm asking whether or not the game has severely crushed blacks because I am not getting that image at all.
I just set it to 720p and it looked the same.
I guess the issue at hand is why does the image change when you press the Xbox logo button? Clearly it changes, and I can say in both 720p and 1080p I see both examples from the article.
If one is crushed, when comparing it to the other, yes it most certainly is. Is that the art direction they took for the game, well that I can't argue.
BUT, the question is why the image even alters to the point where it is clearly two different end results? One with darker tones and AA and one with lighter tones and no AA?
Either way, on my end, 720p or 1080p actual game play looked the same, but I can't deny pressing the Xbox Logo button did flash a completely different image that is represented in that article.
I didn't read all the posts, but it is the X1's scaler that does do the crushed blacks and over blown whites, along with some forum of FXAA I believe. Devs can turn it off, DICE (BF4) said it when it was first brought up right around launch once they went digging to figure out why the blacks were crushed in the first place.
People have found, if you select the X1 to only be able to output at 720 it will not use the scaler.
I didn't read all the posts, but it is the X1's scaler that does do the crushed blacks and over blown whites, along with some forum of FXAA I believe. Devs can turn it off, DICE (BF4) said it when it was first brought up right around launch once they went digging to figure out why the blacks were crushed in the first place.
People have found, if you select the X1 to only be able to output at 720 it will not use the scaler.
So...how does the IR blaster work in the Xbone, and where is it? There was no IR cable included in the box, but my devices are being controlled fine (mostly...sometimes the TV and/or sat box aren't being powered on/off correctly and things get out of sync).
I guess I don't quite understand how it's hitting the IR receivers on my other devices when everything faces the same way out of the media cabinet. Are the IR signals just bouncing off walls or something?
The kinect is the blaster and it is so bright it bounces it off the entire room.
The included IR blaster controls your set-top box and tells it to switch between channels based on your commands.
looks back in stock for me now.
OOS. At the very least, whatever stock Amazon has, people are purchasing. Considering the Xbox One is $100 more expensive than the PS4, it's a pretty good sign. If people didn't want it, we'd have another Wii U on our hands. And since none of the games really make you need to have a console on day one, people must be buying into the faith that Microsoft will deliver a solid console lineup over time.
Or just Titanfall. Titanfall, Titanfall, Titanfall.
OOS. At the very least, whatever stock Amazon has, people are purchasing. Considering the Xbox One is $100 more expensive than the PS4, it's a pretty good sign. If people didn't want it, we'd have another Wii U on our hands. And since none of the games really make you need to have a console on day one, people must be buying into the faith that Microsoft will deliver a solid console lineup over time.
Or just Titanfall. Titanfall, Titanfall, Titanfall.
The difference this time is sony has had better developer relations during the development of the ps4. After the revelation about back door deals with EA for titanfall and the reaction of the developer, it appears MS is content to toss money at companies the same as always. The problem with that is the ps4 has enjoyed better PR leading up to launch so a more favorable mindset can push developers away from Xbox exclusivity. Especially if they want to sell their game on Europe and Asia too.
That's a good point and agree with you, except about MS's backdoor deals. When it comes to content, I could care less if MS bribes developers or buys them outright. This is business and I don't fault for making business decisions. No one cares how the sausages are made as long as they taste good when consumed.
Since the first Xbox, MS has successfully convinced developers that were notoriously Sony centric to developer for Xbox. Square Enix and Konami are a couple that really spring to mind.
Metal Gear Solid IV was "too big" to bring to the 360 according to Konami, yet Metal Gear Solid V is coming to the XB1. Now, was the performance disparity greater between the 360 and PS3, or XB1 and PS4? Of course we know it's PR doublespeak because the only thing too big was the encoded 1080P bluray video, which could have been reencoded to fit on multi DVDs easily.
Bottom line, MS is better at acquiring content than Sony. They are willing to risk large amounts of money in order to attract the biggest titles. Sony does the same thing, though I believe they tend to prefer investing in Japanese game developers. I'm still not sure how that's a bad thing from the customers point of view. In a way, I feel good knowing that if I buy a MS console that MS is going to do everything in it's power to insure I get access to as many AAA titles as possible.
The difference this time is sony has had better developer relations during the development of the ps4. After the revelation about back door deals with EA for titanfall and the reaction of the developer, it appears MS is content to toss money at companies the same as always.
Why is this always said with a bad connotation? As if paying for exclusives is somehow bad? Sony typically prefers to pay to have subsidiaries make their exclusives, Microsoft typically prefers to pay to have 3rd-party developers make their exclusives. It's really no different from a low-level perspective.
For the vast majority I expect 360 users to get a One eventually and PS3 users to get a PS4 eventually. There is really no reason at all for people who love the 360 and didn't like the PS3 to get a PS4 and vice versa.