Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 Delay Shows The Xbox Series S Still A Headache For Developers

ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• yesterdayshero@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not the same thing. Games aren’t built for every specific PC configuration. You’ve always adjusted graphics settings on PC depending on what your machine can run.

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  • Dum@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok eli5 how that’s not the same. If you had said “the Series Shit™ is weak sauce” I would have understood. But if that’s not the case, what stops the devs from turning the graphics dial all the way down to “washed out pixel mess” to accommodate the very much PC-like hardware. For which you don’t have to worry about players messing with the config because you simply don’t let them.

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    • yesterdayshero@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I literally posted an article where developers are yet again complaining about having to develop for the Series S and that it isn’t as easy as just “optimisation”. So maybe you can ELI5 how developing for consoles is exactly the same as developing for PC?

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      • Dum@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The article doesn’t explicitly state it but heavily implies “the Xbox series S is too weak for modern titles”. The optimization is necessary because it’s weak as fuck. It’s very much the same as optimizing for a PC, with the additional constraint that they need to artificially dial down the experience on other consoles, too, due to contract stipulations that prevents them from “giving an edge” to a competing product. The problem is not that it’s different from optimizing for PC, the problem is that it’s “optimizing for a PC that is in principle too weak to handle the load”.

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    • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are the same. For some reason it is acceptable for developers to lie about PC minimum specs but Xbox trying to enforce a quality experience is just unacceptable.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the same can happen for the Xboxen; best thing is there are only two configs.

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    • yesterdayshero@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course. Why didn’t those stupid developers think of that.

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      • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Think of what?

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• Xanvial@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because low spec PC owners usually accept bad frame rate or graphics when playing high demand games. They can’t afford to do that for console players, because MS/Sony will demands a minimum acceptable performance

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