are they releasing different versions of xbox one like xbox vr2,v3 ect..or dare i say a gpu add on to the 3.0 usb ports?they did say up grade maybe something added on to the console to boost the gpu.?

“How many people would spend the funds upgrading for a console if the lowest common denominator must be met” – The ones who want more resolution, frames, draw distance, LOD, volumetic fog, lighting, GAO, etc… the lowest common denominator is only there as a base where the game should play with lower settings at a steady fps. The extra power is for extra eye candy, like in a PC MMO for example.

This way the devs can make a game and scale back to the various options. I’m sure MS will tightly control the “upgrades” so you won’t end up with infinite configs as you do with PCs. I’m also fairly sure that the upgrades will not be individual for things like sound, cpu, gpu, etc…, rather it’ll be an “all-in-one” upgrade to again ensure some consistency of configuration.

Sega’s upgrades divided the base by the games (i.e. w/o this you can’t play that), much like Kinect did (and MS have hopefully learned that lesson…), which is why they didn’t work. N64 just added more RAM so the people who upgraded did actually get more graphically whereas those who didn’t got a vanilla experience.

Of course it’s all speculative, but I can see this working out well so long as it’s rolled out correctly, price points aren’t unreasonable for the power gained, and value is definitively shown. I think with Phil at the helm MS will remain realistic listening to the consumers’ wants vs overreaching and telling the consumer what they need.

Like I said it’s a pc thing. The division you mentioned has thesame options on all X1 consoles so the settings is universal and allows thesame experience on the platform. How many people would spend the funds upgrading for a console if the lowest common denominator must be met ; even on pc the graphical differences aren’t that big when you consider that the hardware should be definitely capable of much more. For example the witcher 3 on consoles wasn’t that far apart from Pcs sure you could get higher resolutions and frame rates but the outcry was the pc version had been dumbed down and was being held back because of consoles.
Sega tried to upgrade but it didn’t work well it just ended up confusing the audience. In anycase with Windows 10 there is no need for upgrades, they can improve the pc version and just make the console version the base denominator and if the cloud thing is still going on they can use it as a virtual console of sort and have it has a conduit to stream Windows 10 games to every Windows 10 device

It can clearly work. In the game options you’ll be able to enable or disable graphical features or use slider bars like a PC game. The Division beta had a couple of options to turn on/off, adjusting sharpness, etc… This way the dev’s can program for the lowest common denominator and then add more eye candy for the people who did “upgrade.”

It’s a ballsy move and one that may or may not pan out, but I think if they go the route I quickly outlined vs games exclusively made for new hardware configs (a la 32x sega and sega cd) it’ll be fine. Splitting the user base that way would be the only sinker…