Will Infinite perform better on PC or Series X?

Will Halo infinite perform better on PC or Xbox Series X?
If they do a good optimization job obviously PC. The better experience however also comes with a heavier entry price.

We know the series X is going to be 120 fps, so I just want to know if it is even worth getting a PC anymore if that's the case.

It depends what YOU want. If it's just for gaming XSX might be enough, especially because it is a really nice setup for the price they offer and it's still in the realm of high end gaming! But it can't compete with better CPU, more RAM, RTX 3000 series and so on... That's a given mate. XSX can go up to 120fps (Hi for now is planned to reach that target as well), with better hardware you can can above that with more complex geometries, higher res, better raytracing and faster loading time.

To beat this gen consoles in 2020/21 you need to spend relatively a lot though, especially this time - because XSX is actually a good starting point contrary to Xone/PS4 FAT back in the day. Once paid that "heavy" entry price though, services and software will cost a hell lot less, you get a much better multimedia station, you get access to mods and have a much bigger pool of games than any other platform - all for less than on a console. So in the (very) long run you might safe a buck or two. So "heavy" it's relative to how much you play and if you only use for gaming or more. It's a lot more work though! Especially if you want to make the tower comfortable for living room and 4k TV ready set-up!

Personally I travel a fair bit, draw a lot, work in the architecture/3D field and consume a lot of YT/Netflix. So I'm better off with a laptop! 🤷🏻‍♀️ I even got a Quadro over a GeForce, because I don't care much for framerate in single-player, it's much better for everything else I do and I still get enough out of it to play well R6S. I did spend more for an awesome IPS screen though, because colors for me are important in everything! See what I mean? So if you want a better answer to your question you should also provide more infos about your your preferences! :) XSX is not the best hardware you can play games on objectively speaking, but it gets close enough! So if you don't care for mods and would use the rig for gaming and nothing else, XSX is still the best choice for multiplats imho!

Long story short (again): it depends what YOU want. There is no right answer!

Also will MCC perform better on the series X as well than on xb1?
Yes, better framerate at the very least!^^

HolyRecord87096 wrote:

Will Halo infinite perform better on PC or Xbox Series X?

We know the series X is going to be 120 fps (I think halo infinite will be able to be played on that correct?), so I just want to know if it is even worth getting a PC anymore if that's the case. The only other advantage a PC has that I can think of is FOV, but the FPS is no longer an advantage right? What else am I missing?

Also will MCC perform better on the series X as well than on xb1?

I think it will be nitpicky differences at best. The base game has to be able to perform on the xbox one. Nothing mind boggling that a pc can do over the series x would be able to happen on the one imo...but idk.

As far as mcc. Since there hasnt been much word. I speculate that the series x will upgrade xbox one titles to xbox one x status. So I guess if you never upgraded to an xbox one x you'll see a noticeable improvement from game to game. I hear halo 5 is very noticeable between the one and the one x

Run 4W wrote:

Pc will never have the releases of OG Halo Legacy titles so there's the advantage with consoles but perhaps playing 10 year old games is something you can do without but for the sake at least console has these games.

Ummm Halo CE and Halo 2 are on PC and MCC is on PC. Only game left is Halo 4 after Tuesday, Minus Halo 5 but we don't talk about that game.

buut going to answer the OP. Go with the system you have the most friends on.

PC 10000% because you can custom build a PC to be wayyy more powerful than the xbox

If you want a PC that plays it as well as the xsx the price is very high.
Even the xss for 300$ will play it like a really good pc.
All about your budget.

PC has practically no performance ceiling, so a monster gaming rig fitted with ridiculous parts like an i9 or AMD ThreadRipper processor and the upcoming Nvidia 3000 series graphics cards should absolutely pack enough power to dramatically outpace the Series X in terms of raw frames and fidelity. That's assuming that 343i has designed Infinite to be scalable in a way that's friendly to PC's (games designed only for console and then ported to PC often aren't optimized to take advantage of PC hardware very well and sometimes take dramatically outsized amounts of power to operate at even regular fidelity), which is likely since MS has been steadily improving their PC support for years.

With regards to most AAA games, the right question to ask is almost never "Will it run better on PC or X Console," because on the high end console gaming hasn't ever been able to compete with PC and isn't likely to in the future. The real question is, how much are you willing to pay and at what fidelity of gaming will you be satisfied? The answer to that question is dramatically different based on who you ask it to.

The Series X (and even moreso the Series S) represent a very nice balance of value/performance. Building a PC (let alone buying a pre-built) that can compete with the raw specs for these units (on paper, we haven't seen the real world performance yet), is almost impossible for the price they cost. If you throw $300 dollars into a rig trying to match the performance of the Series S, you'll likely fall well short. Same thing if you try to build a Series X killer for $500. In fact, you'll need to well above the tag price of either of these to really match them for performance.

If you want the best possible experience for Halo: Infinite (Or practically anything else), drop a few grand on a peerless Gaming PC. If you want a very well optimized experience for an incredible value, pick up one of the Series models. I'm not trying to demean either option, it's entirely a matter of personal preference. It's just a situation (like pretty much anything else) wherein the best value and the best possible quality are not at all the same thing. You'll have to choose what's most important and makes the most sense for you.

Superman Kenobi wrote:

PC has practically no performance ceiling, so a monster gaming rig fitted with ridiculous parts like an i9 or AMD ThreadRipper processor and the upcoming Nvidia 3000 series graphics cards should absolutely pack enough power to dramatically outpace the Series X in terms of raw frames and fidelity. That's assuming that 343i has designed Infinite to be scalable in a way that's friendly to PC's (games designed only for console and then ported to PC often aren't optimized to take advantage of PC hardware very well and sometimes take dramatically outsized amounts of power to operate at even regular fidelity), which is likely since MS has been steadily improving their PC support for years.

With regards to most AAA games, the right question to ask is almost never "Will it run better on PC or X Console," because on the high end console gaming hasn't ever been able to compete with PC and isn't likely to in the future. The real question is, how much are you willing to pay and at what fidelity of gaming will you be satisfied? The answer to that question is dramatically different based on who you ask it to.

The Series X (and even moreso the Series S) represent a very nice balance of value/performance. Building a PC (let alone buying a pre-built) that can compete with the raw specs for these units (on paper, we haven't seen the real world performance yet), is almost impossible for the price they cost. If you throw $300 dollars into a rig trying to match the performance of the Series S, you'll likely fall well short. Same thing if you try to build a Series X killer for $500. In fact, you'll need to well above the tag price of either of these to really match them for performance.

If you want the best possible experience for Halo: Infinite (Or practically anything else), drop a few grand on a peerless Gaming PC. If you want a very well optimized experience for an incredible value, pick up one of the Series models. I'm not trying to demean either option, it's entirely a matter of personal preference. It's just a situation (like pretty much anything else) wherein the best value and the best possible quality are not at all the same thing. You'll have to choose what's most important and makes the most sense for you.

^ This is great information. Thanks for explaining to a layman!!!