‘COD: Advanced Warfare’ E3 Demo Ran On Xbox One, Still Not 1080p

How well Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will perform on the Xbox One remains an open question following the poor 720p showing of Call of Duty: Ghosts. Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condry discussed that issue in the latest issue of OXM, where he confirmed that everything shown so far is running on the Xbox One and not a high-end PC.

“We’ve always had a commitment to delivering at target spec,” Condrey told OXM about Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. “We’re not a studio that’s just going to go out and show off some flash in the pan, high-end PC demo that we’re never going to be able to put on a console.”

Condrey said that Sledgehammer worked “very closely” with Microsoft during the three year development of Advanced Warfare. That three year number is important because previous Call of Duty titles were churned out in a two-year development cycle between two developers that left many gamers questioning Activision’s commitment to quality.

“We really have to thank Activision, not just for the extra year, but for the singular focus,” Condrey said. “Three years to get to next gen. The current gen game – and there’s more news to come about that – never got in the way of our ambitions, it never stopped us from being super-creative about taking full advantage of the next-gen hardware.

“It decoupled us from worrying about having to do a split-platform year, like titles had to last year. So that was really refreshing, and gave us some freedom to really go after this one.”

Development for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions is being handled by High Moon Studios, who previously worked on the Transformers Cybertron titles.

Sledgehammer Games previously confirmed that Advanced Warfare will beat the 720p of Call of Duty: Ghosts, but the open question is whether it will hit 1080p and 60 frames per second. A Digital Foundry analysis of the E3 2014 video suggested that the campaign is currently running in the neighborhood of 900p, but the frame rates weren’t consistently 60 fps.

The Call of Duty franchise has always centered on frame rate over graphics, so it wouldn’t be surprising to see Advanced Warfare not reach the 1080p resolution benchmark but hit 60 fps on the Xbox One. Meanwhile, the PS4 will most likely hit both 1080p and 60 fps.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is due out November 4 for the PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC.