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Heading to XBox One in 2017 - Path of Exile News
SBFord
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Path of Exile Heading to XBox One in 2017 - MMORPG.com News
Grinding Gear has announced that Path of Exile will be heading to XBox One later in 2017. The XB1 version will come complete with all five expansions including the new 3.0 content that will be launching for PC in the next few months.
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These folks really know how to polish their game!
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I love Path of Exile and I do have an Xbox one so I can't wait to get my hands on this! And I do hope controller support for PC will be patched in!
AFAIK, it's easier to port games from Windows to Xbox as underlying system basically the same, they use more or less same hybrid kernel, copyrighted by Microsoft.
As for other consoles, say PS4/PS3, they based their consoles OS from linux kernel (which still use monolithic design). There are much more compability layer to be made if PoE wanna run on PS consoles.
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Hope it does well, Imho xbox needs this, with barely any exclusives being released and some being pushed back or in the case of Scalebound, cancelled. Going into 2017, Xbox isn't looking appealing. Been an Xbox fan for ages, but PS and even Nintendo just look amazing already this year.
The PS4 Pro is a little faster, but... So? It's not like the One S is a snail. Both render beautifully designed games at 1080p very well, and neither of them is truly 4k game ready. Both play 4k BluRays nicely. Both have good exclusives, but the games I wanted to play were mostly shared. Right now I am playing DCUO and The Division on XBOX ONE, and STO on PC.
At heart I am a PC gamer, but I am having a lot of fun with DCUO, more fun than I did with the PC version. My XBOX will get a chance to cool off this weekend though, as I play the Revelation Online CBT on PC.
The deciding factor for me was MS-VR. Since my PC is good enough to play MS-VR when it releases, I had no compelling reason to get a PS4VR setup. And MS-VR will be cheaper than a PS4VR setup. With no serious reason to HAVE to have a PS4, and finding both consoles to be relatively equal for my playing needs, my final decision was based on friends and family. Several of my nieces and nephews (mostly in their 20s and 30s) and a few of my closer gaming buddies have an XBOX 360, ONE or ONE S, so I went with the ONE S on a great sale. ONE S with 1TB drive, Madden 17 and an extra custom controller for $349 USD.
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I think this has more to do with the fact that Xbox One is easier to develop for when you already have Windows games that use Microsoft technologies and APIs. Porting to a PS4 is much more difficult in that case.
I'm not buying the B.S. you're spouting about the value of the customers and whatever. There are more customers on PS4 than on XBOne, and PS4s have sold very well in Western Countries. That is not a factor.
I think a bigger factor is whether or not Microsoft played a large part in incentivizing them to port it over, and whether or not large portions of their code was significantly easier to port to XBO compared to the PS4.
I've tried this game a few times, but the client performance on Windows is beyond atrocious, and they don't even expose enough settings in the Options screens to try to rectify it. Going console was a good move, but I don't think this game is worth buying an XBOne over.
The console market is huge, but it's not monopolized the way Windows dominates in the PC desktop market. You are passing up way too many players when you don't target both, especially when a cash shop filled with [mostly] cosmetic MTX are your primary revenue source.
The games you've mentioned are also on PS4, so they don't actually prove your point. Quite the opposite, actually ;-)
The thing I hate most about the XBO is the controller. It's feels incredibly large, and it's quite bulky and cumbersome to use... I don't find it to be very ergonomic. I much prefer the DS4.
I bought a PS4, returned it for an XBO, and literally bought the XBO back the same day to get the PS4 back. The controller was unusable for me, and the console software was incredibly buggy. I couldn't put a game in the background without the console freezing up. The standby functionality was completely broken, and I could literally reproduce it for people on every in-store display console...
I also like how easy it is was to upgrade the hard drive in the PlayStation 4.
I do feel like the XBO comes across as more of a STB, while the PS4 focuses a bit more on gaming. The XBO interface is quite nice, but games do play a bit better (and in many cases look a bit better, as well, though that will likely equalize with the newer models - at least at 1080p resolution) on the PS4.
My brother still has an XBO, so it's not like I never use/play on one... But, he plays his PS4 more. Most people I know have PS4's, as well. Friend of mine just bought one a month or so ago.
I can't remember the last time I played a football game... It sounds so stereotypically "American Market" (I'm American, before any assumptions are made), but I really consider a free Madden Game to be no different than junk mail. /care
I do think Sony are complete assholes for limiting 1080p Remote Play to the newer PS4 models, though. If an OG XBO can handle that, an OG PS4 should be able to handle it just as well...