I understand that these consoles play games as an "enhanced" version. However how is this achieved? Is the extra content on the actual discs? Or if downloaded as patches, what happens if they are not connected to the internet do they just play the games the same as a standard version of the console would? I'm just trying to understand what happens in 20 years when I'm busting them out for some retro goodness.
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I'm confused about Xbox One X and PS4 Pro
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It varies from game to game. I don’t think any game actually has more content on the X or Pro - extra levels, characters, etc. That’s not a thing. Both consoles will use raw horsepower to deliver varying degrees of improved resolution and frame rate in every game, and then a lot of more recent games (last 2/3 years) have other additional optimisations for improving those further. Sometimes the additional optimisations will be on the disc, sometimes a patch.
Usually 4K textures (for the games that have them available) are delivered via a patch. So you probably won’t be able to use those in 20 years.
Realistically though, most Xbox One and PS4 disc games won’t be very useful in 20 years. I still buy them myself, but huge day one patches mean that the version actually on the plastic is a pretty buggy, early version that’s often times missing major features, whether on a Pro/X or standard machine. So I wouldn’t sweat it too much, there’s not much we can do about it anyway.Last edited by wakka; 29-07-2019, 07:51.
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