Speaking to Official Xbox Magazine UK, Xbox director of development Boyd Multerer says that Xbox One owners should expect to see more games reach the coveted 1080p native resolution in the future.
Multerer's comments stem from the simple fact that as more developers get accustomed to the hardware, their software solutions and optimization techniques will allow them to better make use of the Xbox One hardware.
"The [graphics processing units] are really complicated beasts this time around,” Multerer told the magazine.
"The hardware is basically baked, and what comes next is people discovering better software techniques to take advantage of it, especially in the ordering of the data so it flows through all the caches correctly, and I think there's a lot of opportunity there.” Multerer then points to the Xbox One's ESRAM, a secondary RAM that will work together with the console's eight GB of DDR3 RAM, adding "this is where tuning your data set becomes super important."
Multerer says that the first batch of Xbox One games didn't make full use of the Xbox One hardware because their developers did not have the "opportunity" to “fine-tune” their games as they will further down the line. "Once these engines - the engine developers like Frostbyte and those guys - they really wrap their heads around this particular GPU architecture, then all of the titles coming out of that studio will take advantage of it and get better,” Multerer told OXM UK.
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As we know, the PlayStation 4 has seen the release of more multiplatform games at a 1080p native resolution. The Xbox One has lagged behind a bit with many games outputting at a lower resolution, making this subject fuel for fanboy debates since the console generation started. The likelihood that we'll see more 1080p Xbox One games is high, no doubt.
Developers always manage to impress us with their ingenuity as a console generation proceeds; just look at The Last of Us on PlayStation 3. That level of detail took Naughty Dog several years and multiple game releases in order to learn how to pull more from the aged console. The same will happen this generation; it's just a question of what games you're looking for.
