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Black Myth: Wukong Dev Bemoans Lack of Xbox Version, Points the Finger at Xbox Series S - IGN (www.ign.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by jordanlund to c/[email protected]

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“The only thing missing is the Xbox,” he said, per machine learning translation, “which somehow feels a bit wrong, but that 10GB of shared memory — without years of optimisation experience — is really hard to make work.”

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Erm. Perhaps with $700 million revenue they could afford to buy some optimisation experience?

[–] paultimate14 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The Series X|S combined has sold less than half the units of the PS5. I can't find sales numbers on the X vs S, but it seems like a lot of studios have determined it's just not really profitable to do that level of optimisation unless you can also squeeze the game onto Switch, which does not have as much overlap in demographics as the Xbox and PlayStation do.

The article cites Larian having similar issues with Baldur's Gate 3 and Remedy with Alan Wake 2. This isn't just one shitty lazy dev studio- this is Microsoft forcing hard decisions on devs by insisting on walking the Series S like they're in Weekend at Bernie's.

[–] jordanlund 8 points 2 weeks ago

The Series S is so underpowered it can't run backwards compatible games enhanced for the Xbox One X, it can only run standard Xbox One/Xbox One S games.

Let that sink in for a minute... the last gen Xbox One X is more capable than the Xbox Series S.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

MS has sold more S than X, according to a quick google. Not sure why you'd want to port a game to Xbox Series X without making the game playable on S.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They explained why in the comment you replied to.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not a financial decision. That's just them lacking technical expertise. And let's be real - the S is not some kind of potato. It's perfectly capable. You need ever so slightly less detailed 3D models and textures than on the X but I don't remember this being a huge issue during the PS4 generation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

the S is not some kind of potato. It's perfectly capable

It's not. That's what the OP and the comment you replied to were trying to tell you.

[–] rishado 1 points 1 week ago

It's a ton of work for a tiny bit of revenue, why bother. I'm sure they're just fine where they're at. I'm not coming to Microsoft's defense here whatsoever. The burden of affordability should not be thrown onto game devs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't buy your way past low-end hardware.

[–] dyc3 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, but you can hire for it. This is 100% skill issue.