8th October 2020, 5:34 PM
What do you mean by a graphical upgrade? If you mean next-gen games, graphics will get better by the usual amount but because as graphics get better it becomes harder to tell the difference, it may not matter as much as generations past. If you mean backwards compatible games, Microsoft will be upgrading BC game graphics across the board, but Sony has only said that select titles will get patched for that and that's it.
Xbox One games will get a graphical upgrade -- games with unlocked framerates will get those framerates pretty much boosted to their cap almost all of the time, first, and second most Xbox One, 360, and OG Xbox games that run on the Xbox Series will have auto-HDR added. Increasing resolution and such, however, will take developers to patch their old games to add support for that, so I wouldn't expect it in most cases though some may get patches. Obviously load times will be shorter in all games, particularly if you install the games to the internal SSD.
On the Sony side upgrades will be much more limited. Other than shorter load times, Sony has not been talking about any added features to BC games other than that developers can potentially patch them to add stuff. There has been no mention of anything like MS's automatic HDR or its framerate boosts, though framerate boosts could happen, we still don't know for sure.
But really, the core of next gen is "like this gen but without the ultra-long load times". Some people are calling that a massive generational leap, though I think that's a bit shortsighted -- very few games had load times like current gen console games do before the current generation, after all, outside of things like the Neo-Geo CD. Shorter load times are nice, but you know, cartridge games loaded nearly instantly... and if XSX BC load time tests hold up for next gen, we'll not exactly be seeing that again, though games optimized for SSDs should see better performance than those do.
As for the biggest leap between generations other than the move to 3d, that's a tough one because yeah, the move to 3d is the obvious answer for me.
Xbox One games will get a graphical upgrade -- games with unlocked framerates will get those framerates pretty much boosted to their cap almost all of the time, first, and second most Xbox One, 360, and OG Xbox games that run on the Xbox Series will have auto-HDR added. Increasing resolution and such, however, will take developers to patch their old games to add support for that, so I wouldn't expect it in most cases though some may get patches. Obviously load times will be shorter in all games, particularly if you install the games to the internal SSD.
On the Sony side upgrades will be much more limited. Other than shorter load times, Sony has not been talking about any added features to BC games other than that developers can potentially patch them to add stuff. There has been no mention of anything like MS's automatic HDR or its framerate boosts, though framerate boosts could happen, we still don't know for sure.
But really, the core of next gen is "like this gen but without the ultra-long load times". Some people are calling that a massive generational leap, though I think that's a bit shortsighted -- very few games had load times like current gen console games do before the current generation, after all, outside of things like the Neo-Geo CD. Shorter load times are nice, but you know, cartridge games loaded nearly instantly... and if XSX BC load time tests hold up for next gen, we'll not exactly be seeing that again, though games optimized for SSDs should see better performance than those do.
As for the biggest leap between generations other than the move to 3d, that's a tough one because yeah, the move to 3d is the obvious answer for me.
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