Ubisoft confirms the minimum performance they guarantee of what is their star title for this Christmas within their intergenerational roadmap.
Ubisoft has stated that Assassin's Creed Valhalla will run "at a minimum" in 4K resolution and at a refresh rate of 30 FPS on Xbox Series X. The title, one of Microsoft's third party headliners when it comes to introducing the first Partner titles for your console, will not live up to the promise that Aaron Greenberg, responsible for marketing at Xbox Game Studios, carried out this week where he assured that 60 FPS would be "the standard" for his next generation.
In a meeting with Eurogamer, the French publisher has indicated that the goal is for the title to run no lower than that number: "At this time, we can guarantee that Assassin's Creed Valhalla works at least 30 FPS" on Xbox Series X. No they can guarantee, in turn, the use of the technique of ray tracing (raytracing), one of the main novelties of both this hardware and that of Sony's solution, PS5. What they do assure is that the power of this new model, endowed with a performance of 12 TFLOPS and top-of-the-range SSD memory, is reduced loading times.
The new episode of the saga, which will continue in the wake of Assasin's Creed Origins (2017) and Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018) in the most RPG aspect with huge worlds, missions and content, will be released at the end of the year on both current consoles. generation like those to come: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Stadia. You can know more about this new installment set in the Viking world here.
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will have the seal of “Optimized” on Xbox Series X
All the games we were able to see last week at Microsoft's digital event were shown with the "Optimized" seal for Xbox Series X; Although not all will have the same improvements. Always, yes, at least one. In this article, we tell you what improvements each publisher has confirmed for each of their games, improvements ranging from 4K resolution to refresh rates of up to 120 FPS, DirectStorage, hardware-accelerated DirectX ray tracing, ultra-fast load time or Smart Delivery, the latter a guarantee that we only buy each game once: we will run the best version according to the Xbox model we have.
As for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Ubisoft has confirmed the top three improvements to the “Optimized” seal for Xbox Series X: Smart Delivery, 4K resolution and HDR.
All in all, Xbox Series X will go on sale at Christmas 2020 at a price not yet confirmed. In this extensive report we tell you everything about the console, while in this updated article we review one by one all the games officially confirmed for the machine. There are already more than 140 studios working on the new generation of Redmond's.
