I’m pretty sure that, in this specific case, the delay was mandated by the game’s publisher, Sony. I doubt the Series S has anything to do with it.
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evujumenuk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It really looks like Microsoft made the worst call with their Series S compatibility mandate. Now games come out so late that any Xbox owner is automatically a Patient Gamer, without the upsides. That’s if a port is released at all.
These days you can play games like Death Stranding more than half a year earlier on your iPhone.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This has nothing to do with the Series S. Helldivers is a fully Sony owned IP. I suspect Xbox asked for this as a show of good grace in exchange for Halo.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The series S is why the launch of cyberpunk was fucked. It was out dated then and is even worse meow
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I don’t think that’s true, the game ran very well on Series X on release. I know because I sunk like 90 hours on it in the first week. It ran like shit in all last Gen hardware including PC, because people with the then new 30 series Nvidia graphics cards were also reporting the game ran fine. I think CDPR just did not optimize it at all.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Series S not X. There was a reason why M$ and Sony both refunded a ton of customers.