According to an analysis by Digital Foundry, Mighty No. 9 features superior texture filtering on Xbox One. This leads to a marked increase in image quality and the fact that bloom is turned off gives it a much better presentation. While there are frame rate issues on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the title runs at a smooth sixty most of the time and is an enjoyable experience.
You can take a look at their analysis here which clearly talks about the advanced texture filtering available on Xbox One and not PlayStation 4 at the end. They also note that many other games also show that the Xbox One has advanced texture filtering. There has been a constant debate about resolution over the years but the Xbox One uses more advanced image rendering techniques than PlayStation 4. I would take that any day over resolution which in this case isn’t even an issue because Mighty No. 9 runs at 1080p on both Xbox One and PlayStation 4. With the Xbox Scorpio coming with 6 Tflops of power in a year, I wonder what the detractors will focus on now. Maybe we’ll finally get back to important matters like gameplay.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.