E3 2017: Phil Spencer Talks Xbox One X Potentially Being Held Back By PS4 Deals

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E3 2017: Phil Spencer Talks Xbox One X Potentially Being Held Back By PS4 Deals

Microsoft officially revealed the Xbox One X at E3 this week, providing a name and details for the improved Xbox One formerly known as Project Scorpio.

It's more powerful than PS4 Pro, but game companies now find themselves in a position where they have to decide how to approach the improvements that are offered on Xbox One X as compared with PS4 Pro.

We learned this week that Destiny 2 will run at 30 FPS on Xbox One X, just as it will on PS4 Pro. But it's unclear if that framerate is the result of hardware restrictions or because Sony, through its partnership with Activision, would not allow the game to run better on rival hardware.

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer joined GameSpot today on our E3 live show to discuss this and much more.

Regarding the potential for games' technical performance to be held back due to such arrangement, he noted that he was not aware of that specifically happening, but he did say he thinks it would be bad for the industry.

"I'm gonna struggle to not get myself in trouble on this one," he said. "I'll just say: I don't know anything about other development deals. You mentioned some things around clauses and stuff that I don't know anything about.

But if anybody was to do a deal to hold back technical innovation on a video game anywhere else, that doesn't feel good for the industry to me." Spencer went on to contrast the approach of securing exclusive content with the way Microsoft now operates.

"I've said I'm not one who's a fan of going out and doing deals so that a certain skin isn't playable on another platform or a different Strike," he said. "And people will come and say, 'Hey, you guys did that first with Call of Duty way back in the day.'

I wasn't in this position when that happened. That's not me ducking responsibility for it, but I didn't make that call.

"But the deals that we do now-and you saw our third-party relationships on stage with Shadow of War, with Assassin's Creed, you're not going to hear them say anything about there's a certain character that's not playable.

And I never go into a situation where I say, 'You can't do something that's possible on another platform' in order to benefit. I haven't seen those deals. If that started to happen in the industry, I don't think that's a great thing. I don't know that it has happened."

E3 2017: Phil Spencer Talks Xbox One X Potentially Being Held Back By PS4 Deals

Spencer also made it clear he views Xbox One X and what it's capable of as being on a different level than the consoles currently on the market. "I know right now, the technical capability on Xbox One X is beyond…

I look at PS4 Pro, PS4 Slim, Xbox One S as kind of in one category, and then you've got a box, as you said, that can natively do a lot more. Whether developers choose to use the horsepower for framerate, resolution, or just techniques within the frame.

I'm not going to dictate that. I've heard this: 'Hey, you should force all games to run at 60 frames per second or something.' I've never thought forcing the creative process is a way to get great games."

You can watch our full interview with Spencer in the video at the top of this article. He also discussed console wars, Xbox backwards compatibility, and more. For more on what Microsoft had to share this week, check out our roundup of all the Microsoft press conference news. Via Source: gamespot

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