Black Myth: Wukong Developer Says Xbox Port Delay Is Due To The Series S

Unsure why Xbox is still supporting and selling the S series. You see them EVERYWHERE. No one buys em. They probably shipped a few during the holidays but's that because that's all that was on the shelves at that point. No one wants an S when you have the X and the PS5 and PS5 Pro now. Everyone wants to play a new console on their big new 4k TVs and you won't get the graphical fidelity with an S as you get with a PS5 or X. You just won't. Not for native 4k and NOT using any kind of software fidelity apps.

Lastly, if Xbox was SMART they'd say just ship it for the X then. No reason to support the S if it can't handle the software. That's like trying to run Black Myth on a Voodoo 4 at this point.

As a owner of the ps5 now pro and series x. I have felt from launch that the series s always held the x back.

I still do not understand why microsoft did not do what sony did at launch and make a all digital series x ( sony sold a ps5 all digital for $400) with a smaller ssd ( $330 gigs) for $350.

To force parity for both consoles has really hurt the xbox brand as a whole. I think it really hurt microsofts own first party and that's why there have been so many delays for there own games.

I look at hellblade 2 and the only boss fight was from the gameplay trailer from a couple of years ago. I have a feeling getting that game to run on a series s caused them to have the game come out a year or two later.

At this point , the parity should be lifted and if the game can not run on a series s even from their own first party it should be a stream only title.

As a series x owner there are a lot of great things about the console ( bc among other things) but the series s has really hold the series x back and the parity should be gone at this point.

If a game is too challenging for a series s it should start having stream only titles and eventually phase out the series s.

It’s wild that Phil Spencer still has a job. That guy has handicapped Xbox left and right. He absolutely bombed the Xbox One launch, and never recovered. Then he held back an entire generation by requiring games to be made for a significantly weaker console. There are 4 generations of Xbox, and only 2 successful ones. That is a terrible track. Every PlayStation, and every almost every Nintendo console (besides the Wii U, and I’m talking actual consoles, not Virtual Boy, or Vita) has been a huge success. It is long past time that Xbox goes the way of Sega.

What happens when you do not make your own engines.

Phil's an insincere phony empty suit corporate stooge and as much as I hate to do it, I tacitly agree with him.

Gaming should be a big tent thing and the only way to expand the addressable market is via less complex cheaper but very capable consoles. The S might be an albatross on the backs of developers but allowing them to release games only on the $500 box unnecessarily segments the userbase and leaves tons of gamers behind.

But this is not just magnanimity on Phil's part. The leaks last year from Microsoft's filings related to their acquisition of ABK revealed that over 75% of the userbase for Xbox gen 9 are S users so Microsoft cannot afford to leave them out in the cold.

If a dev can get the Witcher 3 to work on Switch, then it's sure as hell possible to get Black Myth to work on the Series S... They will just need to get creative.

Series S was always a bad idea. Phil Spencer has had bad idea after bad idea. How does he still have a job?

Microsoft should ditch the S, and lower the price of the X a little. Problem solved for manufacturer, developer and customer.

As soon as Series S got announced, I knew it was a bad idea. It's an absolute potato

“Black Myth: Wukong Developer Says Xbox Port Delay Is Due To The Series S”

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I wonder how long until we start seeing this problem creep up on PS5 games with the PS5 Pro being the only way they optimize games and the PS5 regular having janky, un-optimized versions running on it? It could happen, not saying that it will, but this did happen very famously on PS4 with Cyberpunk 2077. It ran fine on PS4 Pro and Xbox One X but was a hot mess on PS5 and Xbox One.

The Series S is such an albatross around the XBox ecosystem's neck. Well, MS wanted an ecosystem where even the weakest model can 'just play' every game, and they've got it. Meanwhile Sony is 'yeah do whatever you want' and Nintendo is 'you get no choice'. Each with their own niche, I guess. But at this point not sure why you'd even think you'd be able to play the latest games in their full glory if you're in the XBox ecosystem. You're at the budget buffet of consoles, where giant hippos in sweatpants shovel cheap carbs and grease onto their plates. And of course the Series X could do it but it can't get around the herd of Series S waddling in its way.

Yikes. First BG3 and now Black Myth. Series S has turned out to be a terrible mistake for the brand

So it's not over an exclusivity deal?

Earlier Microsoft said "we can confirm that the delay is not due to Xbox platform limitations that have been raised to us."

Is Microsoft telling the truth or is the developer telling the truth?