A few things to note - Xbox offers images in rectangle and square format. The current icons on the Xbox Series / One side are not custom ones. Xbox 360 only had small squares or boxart, however. The cropping issues should be on 360 games only.
I'm not sure about not having a uniform size. That's what Sony are doing now with the trophy lists on PS5, when you browse through your trophies the PS4 and earlier icons have a max-height set. It just doesn't look that good in my opinion.
Switching to square-only would work fine for PSN and Xbox for the most part, although I'm not sure about Steam. The icons there are rectangle and I couldn't see auto cropping them to square working well (logos are often off center as well, there's no standard).
Take this icon as an example... https://i.exophase.com/steam/games/o/651b07.png?1604468252
The current auto crop works fine here, but if it was auto cropped to a square it wouldn't. There are a lot of instances like this. At the moment, I'm curious how Sony will handle it on their legacy systems, presumably you will be able to view PS5 trophies from a PS4 at some point - but currently they do not show up there. It's possible they will display the rectangle icons there.
For multiplatform titles we could also auto swap the icons (i.e. a new PS5 game would automatically have its icon replaced with the Xbox one). Although this would depend on the Xbox version of a game getting inserted to the DB first, which isn't always the case
I'm not sure about not having a uniform size. That's what Sony are doing now with the trophy lists on PS5, when you browse through your trophies the PS4 and earlier icons have a max-height set. It just doesn't look that good in my opinion.
Switching to square-only would work fine for PSN and Xbox for the most part, although I'm not sure about Steam. The icons there are rectangle and I couldn't see auto cropping them to square working well (logos are often off center as well, there's no standard).
Take this icon as an example... https://i.exophase.com/steam/games/o/651b07.png?1604468252
The current auto crop works fine here, but if it was auto cropped to a square it wouldn't. There are a lot of instances like this. At the moment, I'm curious how Sony will handle it on their legacy systems, presumably you will be able to view PS5 trophies from a PS4 at some point - but currently they do not show up there. It's possible they will display the rectangle icons there.
For multiplatform titles we could also auto swap the icons (i.e. a new PS5 game would automatically have its icon replaced with the Xbox one). Although this would depend on the Xbox version of a game getting inserted to the DB first, which isn't always the case
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