Playstation 5 -konsolin ominaisuuksista ei vielä tiedetä varmaksi juuri mitään. Microsoftin Xbox Series X -konsolista sen sijaan tiedetään vähän enemmän. Tulossa on muun muassa erityinen äänisiru ("dedicated audio hardware acceleration"), josta uutisoi myös Gamereactor.
Kehittäjä Ninja Theory on ilmaissut tyytyväisyytensä Microsoftin ratkaisuun VGC:lle, jolle puhui vanhempi äänisuunnittelija Daniele Galante.
"It's extremely exciting. We're going to have a dedicated chip to work with audio, which means we finally won't have to fight with programmers and artists for memory and CPU power.
Oman intonsa jakoi maailmalle myös Ninja Theoryn äänipomo David Garcia.
"We take for granted that graphics are powered by their own video cards. But in audio, we haven't had anything like that. Now we have some power dedicated to us.
I really like how Microsoft is giving us more tools to improve the sound and to be more creative. Because at the end of the day it's not a matter of, 'we want more memory because we are more cool', we just want to be able to do our jobs without thinking about limitations.
Making games always has you thinking about technical limitations. Eventually these limitations become less and less the more you evolve with new consoles, but at the same time it's always a constant thing: These are the maximum number of voices we can have, because otherwise the game is going to lag."