Of course devs want more powerful hardware. One of the reasons why so many modern apps are runnning like crap 
Who needs optimizations if you can throw in more memory 
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Yeah, I don’t think it’s ever been on sale here based on stuff I’ve researched. The Kishi is on sale for $70CDN which will cost 50% less than backbone. I prob would’ve bite if it was $100CDN
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I wouldn’t put any stock into a couple people that were really loud one day on twitter then effectively disappeared. If a journalist actually does an investigation on it and gets info from multiple sources from inside the industry and they say the series S is a problem then it would mean something.
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I think it is some kind of flashmob - “bash Series S and get your twitter account nuked” 
I mean, seriously we have Series S running COD at 120fps and CP2077 at 60fps. While Gotham Knights is unable to reach 60fps on 4090. Aside losing their credibility and tanking GK sales they have achieved nothing. It is not Xbox One era anymore where you could win points by blaming Xbox for something.
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Remember when Playstation fans celebrated believing in generations? The Karma goddess is watching them. Don’t get too excited about the Series S or you might convince Jimmy Ryan to make a cute little PS 6S 
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I think what Series S will end up having an effect on is proper optimization across all platforms. Limitations and challenges bring innovation and problem solving.
Instead of the outlook being “oh we wish the PS5/XSX were the baseline target” it should be “Series S is a dramatic upgrade on most all fronts compared to our current/previous baseline target PS4 already”.
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Considering XB1 sold 35m, it’s amazing that the Series X/S sold 28m by the end of 2021!!
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I remember those figures. I wonder why media picked it up just now as it was mentioned last week.
At least we now kinda know where those additiona 15m of Playstation are coming from - Microsoft has included Vita. So those 153m are PS4 + PS4 + Vita. How many PS5s were by the end of 2021? 19m I believe?
I personally discount the opinions about “series S holding back the generation”. It feels like “Square enix blaming western devs for their own problems”.
The thing about 63.7m is that it is coming from USA mainly. Which is crazy. I wonder if by the end of Xbox One it has reached 50m…Or around. It would then put Xbox Series into 13m-14m by the end 2021. At that’s with Azure blades.
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The problem with holding back the generation is that nobody can tell you what that even means. Not a single gameplay feature was named by all these now dead twitter accounts, not a single peep. You would think that after more than 3 years developing on a platform and feeling the pain of cutting back features somebody would come out and tell exactly what is going on. Crickets.
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Usually means - “we have no time for optimizations and we need to find a scapegoat”
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Well.
Good luck and have fun porting your game to Switch 2.
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Nintendo is a darling. You can’t do that to Nintendo.
True, but let’s not just blame devs in a vacuum, as some of those issues would be traced back to publishers not supporting the devs enough or allowing them time/resources for optimization and QA testing.
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I don’t blame unless the devs (and for some reason it is VFX, testers etc 90% of time) start to use Series S as a scapegoat. Devs are not untouchable and being a software developer myself I can safely say that just because people are the developers it does not mean that they are that good.
I might not have time to come up with some good solution to a problem ,but it does not mean I am gonna blame PC for not having enough RAM to run my crap (I will file a request for a new machine lol)
I can understand why people blame Series S - trying to find a way to justify why G Knights run like that - because for obvious reasn they cannot blame the publisher I don’t remember Saints Row developers blaming Series S for example.
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Cannot wait. Really looking forward too.
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Yep, me too. Could actually be a day one purchase for me and it’s been a really long time that I bought a game on day one. Reasons being Game Pass, backlog.
I’m really happy that the guy got a chance to make what basically looks to be Dead Space 4 in anything but name. I do hope it has some unique features of its own.
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So, if you have a tv that can do 120hz refresh rate, make sure to have your Xbox only use the 60hz mode if you plan on playing skyrim. It was causing the opening sequence to bug out for me, the cart was just flipping around.
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