XboxEra Community Hangout |OT12| The Dirty Dozen

[Sparda3g]

The era of climbing. Remind me of year of bow or year of zipline.

[Staffy]

https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1799191935971954945

At least Rocksteady is back on making SP games again, but yeah.

[QuietGamer90]

I can see Lego Horizon being a late port to Xbox.

[Sparda3g]

@Staffy

https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1799191935971954945

At least Rocksteady is back on making SP games again, but yeah.

I guess there are people that didn’t know about the game firsthand.

[peter42O]

@Staffy

How are we liking the show so far?

It’s eh, in my opinion. But there’s still enough show left.

Meh. Lego Horizon and Star Wars Outlaws are the standouts for me.

As for Black Myth Wukong, it appears that it’s a Baldur’s Gate III situation where they need more time to optimize the game for Series S. If anything, Microsoft should eliminate the parity clause as that would probably make development easier.

[Astrakan]

Awakening seems pretty cool. The trailer hints at some neat gameplay mechanics.

[Staffy]

@peter42O

Meh. Lego Horizon and Star Wars Outlaws are the standouts for me.

As for Black Myth Wukong, it appears that it’s a Baldur’s Gate III situation where they need more time to optimize the game for Series S. If anything, Microsoft should eliminate the parity clause as that would probably make development easier.

But wasn’t the BG3 situation a split screen thingy?

Ngl, it sucks. I was looking forward to it. That being said, still no console footage. I don’t want to say it’s a red flag yet but…

[peter42O]

@Staffy

But wasn’t the BG3 situation a split screen thingy?

Ngl, it sucks. I was looking forward to it. That being said, still no console footage. I don’t want to say it’s a red flag yet but…

Yeah but im sure there’s stuff in the game that requires more memory so if Microsoft just eliminates the parity clause like they did for Baldur’s Gate 3, their problems would probably be solved.

[Sparda3g]

@Staffy

But wasn’t the BG3 situation a split screen thingy?

Ngl, it sucks. I was looking forward to it. That being said, still no console footage. I don’t want to say it’s a red flag yet but…

It was.

I don’t mind waiting. BG3 still sold strong on Xbox with many people playing to this day. It won’t get hurt.

[BRiT]

@peter42O

If anything, Microsoft should eliminate the parity clause as that would probably make development easier.

There is no such parity clause between the consoles. There have been plenty of games released on Series S and Series X that had different resolutions and framerates and raytracing before BG3.

[Thebaconlife]

seems like a lot of CG trailers at this show

[Sparda3g]

@Thebaconlife

seems like a lot of CG trailers at this show

That’s what I thought too.

[peter42O]

@BRiT

There is no such parity clause between the consoles. There have been plenty of games released on Series S and Series X that had different resolutions and framerates before BG3.

Actually, there is. There’s a parity clause for the features. Microsoft dropped it for Baldur’s Gate 3 which is why split screen co-op isn’t in the Series S version of the game. And Larian basically confirmed this last year.

[Boosted_Gear]

Yeah, the show is getting a bit boring.

[Sparda3g]

Aaron of Xbox said they worked on the Showcase for like 6 months. They probably took the big ones and Geoff probably going to find a way to hate on them. He sure did so with studio closures.

[pg2g]

@peter42O

Actually, there is. There’s a parity clause for the features. Microsoft dropped it for Baldur’s Gate 3 which is why split screen co-op isn’t in the Series S version of the game. And Larian basically confirmed this last year.

I doubt this is a features issue, they likely just need more time to optimize.

[TheLegendaryGamer]

@peter42O

Yeah but im sure there’s stuff in the game that requires more memory so if Microsoft just eliminates the parity clause like they did for Baldur’s Gate 3, their problems would probably be solved.

Do people actually care about Wukong like they did BG3 though?

Wukong show a CGI trailer and it release in like 3 months

That a red flag right there would not surprise me if the game ran like shit on all platform

[Staffy]

@peter42O

Actually, there is. There’s a parity clause for the features. Microsoft dropped it for Baldur’s Gate 3 which is why split screen co-op isn’t in the Series S version of the game. And Larian basically confirmed this last year.

Then yeah, hopefully MS drops it again for Wukong so that we can still play it this year. I hate this unspecified dates stuff. No we have no idea when to expect it. Sigh.

[FacelessSamurai]

@peter42O

Actually, there is. There’s a parity clause for the features. Microsoft dropped it for Baldur’s Gate 3 which is why split screen co-op isn’t in the Series S version of the game. And Larian basically confirmed this last year.

But there isn’t any feature in Wukong that would need to be cut from the Series S version and the requirements on PC are known and nothing the Series S cannot handle.

[BadNews]

@peter42O

Microsoft should eliminate the parity clause as that would probably make development easier.

Its not the parity issue, but an install base issue. If Xbox had a larger install base then devs would work harder to make it work. They most likely did a risk assessment and decided better to delay xbox version due to install base