Rumour: It Sounds Like Battlefield 6 May Not Be Coming To Xbox One

To me they are making a mistake if its Series XIS only. As it been said its hard to get a Series XIS. But we will see.

Very interesting, the PS4/XB1 generation might be abandoned earlier than usual with generation transitions. In the case of Battlefield, Battlefield Hardline was a crossgen release (PS3/360/PS4/XB1) in 2015 which was 2 years after the PS4/XB1 launched.

Funny, after everyone begged developers to cancel last gen ports next gen consoles became scarce. All over a game that was broken on every generation of console. I wonder how ambitious BF6 will be if it's dropping last gen. If it's still on Frostbite 3 they still have non-RTX graphics, I doubt a shooter would have enough traversal to need SSD speed.

@Vincent294
They already used the new Frostbite engine in FIFA 21, hence no cross-play possible between Xbox One and Series X/S versions.
So I imagine it's the same situation with Battlefield 6.

@blinx01 I didn't know they didn't crossplay. I just thought they added new hair and improved lighting, breaking crossplay implies a bigger change to Frostbite. So maybe they are going all in on next gen.

I'm sorry but this is good news, it's time to start making games that really take advantage of the new hardware

@Vincent294 Battlefield V was one of the first big releases showcasing ray tracing so I'm not quite sure what you're talking about regarding the engine. Nevertheless a War time setting in an fps would be the perfect scenario to demonstrate next gen with things like fully destructible environments which just aren't possible on the old consoles

Glad it’s next gen only tbh.

@carlos82 BF V offered both RTX and traditional screen space lighting. Of course, if they make breaking changes to the engine it is possible they could mandate RTX. Unlikely given PCs though, many have beefy CPU, SSD, and non RTX GPU, as well as RTX users that just want more frames, common in a competitive multiplayer title.
Edit: Destructive environments is the only thing I think could make going next-gen only worth it. I know Crackdown 3 multiplayer was a mess but it would be interesting to see something like Teardown.

@Vincent294 don't most (or all) games with RTX give you the choice of what ray tracing features you want to use? Ray tracing isn't going to be forced, at least not for a very long time but it can provide an advantage in mulitplayer as reflections can show the location of opposing players. It certainly will be in the new game though but also next gen isn't just about RTX and fast SSD's, there is also the quite significant increase in CPU power to aid with destructible environments in this type of game or more highly detailed and interactive worlds in general.

About about dam time let’s have some games for the new generation only and start to truly utilise the power and ssd advantages etc.
Fed up with cross generation, pc slider improvements and dam remakes.

Sorry to those without a Series X or S but I hope this is true. I want to see the potential of games without having to make allowances for last gen.

Good I hope this is true

It is about time.

If it does come to last gen it will most likely be how they handled Battlefield 4. Separated servers.

I just hope they don't waste their time, put all the work into the next Gen version, and give us the good battlefield we've been waiting on since 4 came out.

Love Battlefield, can’t wait to see what they have in store for us this time. I tried playing Enlisted thinking it would be a good substitute, I was very disappointed.

Good hope it takes full advantage of Series X, I wish they would do a game based on the Korean War rather than the usual Cycle of Modern/WW1/WW2 etc

I would be very surprised if its Next-Gen Only. I have no doubt that DICE are working purely on the Next-gen/PC version, maybe even with much larger scale battles but that doesn't mean a last gen version won't be released too.

Another Studio could be tasked with porting and optimising the game to the 4 last gen versions - the XB1S & X, PS4 & Pro versions. They could limit the Player base to 64 (32vs32) as previous BF games on these systems - Similar to the PS3/360 version of BF4 which was limited to 24 players whilst on PS4/XB1, we had 64 players. Also, the PS4/XB1 version targetted 60fps whilst the last gen version, just 30fps.

I doubt that BF6 will require a RT enabled GPU at the minimum for example on PC so DICE will have settings to turn off RT - like BF5. It will be built to scale across a wide range of Hardware and Frostbite scales well.

With DICE focussed on the next gen consoles (Series S, X and PS5) as well as the PC, it wouldn't surprise me if Criterion (for example) are the ones who will port and optimise the last gen version. Whether that means dropping the Visual quality (resolution and other visual settings) alone or having to make tougher decisions (limiting Player Base, reducing map size, targeting lower Frame Rates, limiting cross-play to that gen or no Cross platform play at all etc) but EA won't want to miss out on that potential market. Whether it ends up as 'different' as BF4 was on each 'gen' or even as different as CoD:BO3 was or maybe as Different as a LOT of games are today, we will have to see but its not unusual for these BIG companies to let another Studio handle the porting and optimising for the last gen hardware.