The PC market remains the biggest market, however.
Lower-level APIs mean developers can get closer to the “metal” and optimise their titles to the hardware, platform-specific features such as dedicated Xbox Live servers can mean better experiences, whilst the install-base and exposure by the respective marketplaces can provide a bigger overall outreach for your titles. This is the price hardcore gamers are willing to pay to be a part of the self-proclaimed “master race”.įor the rest of us, an investment in a console means a hardware-setup which is likely to be supported for around a decade. To be at the cutting-edge, this can mean upgrades even sooner.
To remain ahead of the pack, this means upgrades every couple of years. If you want to play games to the peak of their performance, then we all know you need to invest in the latest PC hardware. What we didn’t mention, however, is that there are other benefits to DirectX 12 which directly affects both platforms… In the piece, we mentioned that Microsoft’s Xbox One console is also likely to see some benefits but won’t see the vast improvements of its PC brethren. Microsoft hasn’t yet said when it’ll release DirectX 12 Ultimate, but it’s no secret that it will be a big part of its Xbox Series X console, which will make its official debut later this year.Last week, DeveloperTech posted an article detailing the massive performance gains and power reductions DirectX 12 will bring to the PC. What’s more, next-generation games that use DirectX 12 Ultimate features will still be able to run on non-DX12 Ultimate hardware, albeit with some of the newer features disabled. Or, as Microsoft describes it, the standard will make things easier for developers while also providing gamers with “assurance that their hardware meets the highest bar for feature support in next-generation games.”
“With DirectX 12 Ultimate, advanced effects such as ray tracing are expected to reach more games sooner, and it makes developers’ lives easier by allowing them to create games using the same common graphics API and graphics architecture for both PCs and consoles,” Team Red said in a statement.įor gamers, DirectX 12 Ultimate but it should lead to games with more life-like visuals and smoother gameplay. Separately, AMD - which will power Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox - has said that it has also worked closely with Microsoft on the development of DirectX 12 Ultimate, and confirmed that its forthcoming RDNA2-based Radeon graphics cards will also support hardware ray tracing and the new standard. During Thursday’s virtual presser, Nvidia announced that DirectX 12 Ultimate games will be fully compatible with its GeForce RTX technology.
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