Microsoft showed off more than “Halo Infinite” during the showcase.
However, whoever made the comparison video could have easily substituted in any of Sony’s big PS4 open world games like “Horizon Zero Dawn,” “Spider-Man” or “Ghost of Tsushima” and all three would have looked better than “Halo Infinite.”
It’s true that “Halo Infinite” and “The Last of Us Part 2″ are two totally different styles of games, with “Halo Infinite” being an open world first-person shooter and “The Last of Us Part 2″ being a third-person linear adventure. In every scenario, close-ups of faces, driving, environments, “The Last of Us Part 2” looked better. Soon after the briefing, I saw a video online with a side-by-side comparison of the graphics for “Halo Infinite,” running on Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released state of the art hardware, and “The Last of Us Part 2,” released in June for Sony’s nearly 7-year-old PlayStation 4. It looked like an early Xbox One game running at a higher resolution. While the gameplay looks solid and fun, I was shocked at just how bad the graphics looked. Microsoft spent the most time in their roughly one hour showcase giving a deep dive into their flagship game for the Xbox Seriex X launch, “Halo Infinite,” the sixth mainline game in the popular Halo series. In fact, I was more excited about the system before I saw the games running on it than I am after it, and that’s not good. That said, the Microsoft showcase did nothing to sway me back to the Xbox family. So I admit I’m a little biased toward PlayStation, but I truly do want all three console makers to be successful because that just improves the health of this industry that I love. While I had and bought games for all three systems during the PlayStation 2/Xbox/GameCube generation, for the past 13 years the PlayStation ecosystem has been my primary platform of choice for gaming, having just picked up a Nintendo Switch in the past couple of years as a secondary system.
While on paper it may be true that the Xbox Series X is more powerful than the PlayStation 5, the games they showed off at last week’s Xbox Games Showcase, our first real look at gameplay from first-party titles, did not wow me. Columns share an author’s personal perspective.įor months, Microsoft has been building hype for its upcoming Xbox Series X by saying things like it’s the most powerful gaming console ever created.