Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has been the trigger for the controversy after failing to follow Aaron Greenberg’s promise about that “standard”.
The 60 FPS refresh rate will not be a mandatory requirement for studios launching games on Xbox Series X, said Aaron Greenberg, head of marketing for Xbox, after mentioning that this figure was going to be "the standard" for the imminent new generation. His words, which were interpreted as the norm, raised doubts when they met a few hours after Assassin's Creed Valhalla will work "at least" in 4K at 30 FPS.
"Developers will always have flexibility in how they use that power (from Xbox Series X), so the standard or common 60 FPS is not an obligation," he commented on his personal Twitter account in response to Tom Warren, journalist for The Verge, after talking to him about it.
Developers always have flexibility in how they use the power, so a standard or common 60fps is not a mandate.
– Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼♂️❎ (@aarongreenberg) May 12, 2020
Xbox Series X will even be able to offer refresh rates of up to 120 FPS. One of them, in the absence of knowing how much reduction in resolution, will be the new Codemasters, DiRT 5, which will arrive later this year also under an intergenerational model.
Xbox Series X will arrive at Christmas 2020: one Inside Xbox every month
What remains a goal is that Microsoft will prioritize gaming performance over resolution. This past week, the first 13 confirmed games for the console of third companies were known during the first Inside Xbox of the monthly Xbox 20/20 program.
For its part, Microsoft is already working on the Inside Xbox in July, where they are expected to do something similar with their first party studios, which surely can be adjusted with more guarantee to a phrase that is still there, now nuanced by the manager to avoid confusion: "60 FPS will be the standard, although the architecture will allow us to reach 120 FPS."
Xbox Series X will go on sale worldwide on Christmas 2020 with more than 140 studios working on the console. You can see in this article everything we know about the console; and in this other, all the games confirmed until this month of May.
