This is one for the tech fans! Lots of PC gamers like the ability to activate an FPS counter to see just how well (or poorly) a game is running, but Microsoft has no plans to make this a possibility on consoles right now.
Asked about this on the Kinda Funny Xcast, Xbox director of project management Jason Ronald explained that while the team has "heard the requests", there's nothing to announce at the moment.
"We've definitely heard the requests from fans. I'll say never say never, there's no immediate plans to go do that, but we know the more technically sophisticated audience, they want more information about how the game's running and whatnot."
"We're looking at it, but nothing to announce today."
Ronald was appearing on the podcast to discuss the new 'FPS Boost' feature for Xbox Series X and S consoles, providing more details on the technical challenges of increasing the frame rates for older Xbox One games.
Do you want to see an FPS counter option for Xbox? Let us know down below.
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No thanks. You would just end up obsessing over numbers, truth is if a game drops from 60 to 57, you most likely are not going to notice. If you need an actual counter to detect an fps drop, then the drop is probably nothing to worry about.
It would just drive me mad. As long as the game is nice and smooth, what's the problem?
I sometimes have to laugh at Digital Foundry's videos when they say stuff like "we detected no drops during gameplay, but in this cutscene, you have 2 seconds where you see it drop from 60 to 47" and I just think "its a cutscene? Who cares?"
Having said that, I am loving the 120fps mode on Master Chief Collection. I recommend giving it a go. If you have a high refresh rate monitor or tv, but only hdmi 2.0 you will need to drop the resolution of your xbox down to 1440p and disable the "Allow 4k" under display options. (Edit: I just added that because it took me about half hour to work out. I have a 2.1 TV but only a Series S, which can't do 4k@120. Its either an upscaled 1080 or the 120.
It's great I don't want FPS counter option
Not required by me Jason. No point watching a counter, maybe drop two or three frames, maybe more, maybe not at all. I'm playing the game, I don't care!
Now, that's not to say I don't like tech analysis videos on YouTube, I really do, but that's a different activity, I have no interest in getting distracted by some numbers in the corner of my screen whilst I'm playing a game.
Why would anyone want an fps counter on a console? It's useful on a PC as you can use it to balance your settings for optimal performance but on a console all of that work has already been done for you and you can't do anything about it, so what's the point?
Ok i clearly am not the target market here cuz i can't see what benefit this would have to my enjoyment of a game?
Ahh, console FPS counters.
Fanboy console warrior 1: I'm out of ammo! RELOADING!
Fanboy console warrior 2: THEY'RE CLIPPING THROUGH THE WALLS!!!
There is no point for a FPS counter for consoles. Unless you give us the option to upgrade its hardware, or at least, customize the advanced video settings.
Glad to hear i'm not alone. Concentrate on enjoying the game not what another useless metric tells you.
If you need an FPS counter to tell you if you have enough FPS, then you don't need an FPS counter.
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