In my humble opinion, the Xbox Series S was a success for Microsoft and actually became a key pillar in the democratization of the current generation of consoles. It doesn’t support the discussion because it’s been a few years he was the only one who had a really good stock leveland that it was possible to buy i below its recommended price seamlessly.

If we talk about its hardware, yes, it is true that it is clearly below the PS5, but it offers fantastic value for its price, after all, we are talking about a console that we can buy right now for 279 euros and which for that money includes a Zen 2 CPU with 8 cores and 16 threads, 10 GB of unified memory, an RDNA 2 GPU with 1,280 shaders and a 512 GB SSD with speed 2 .4 GB/s. This configuration is generally more than enough for guaranteed gaming in 1080p with high graphic qualities or for gaming in 1440p with reduced quality and fluidity.

The thing is, despite everything we’ve said and its role as the driver of the current generation, the Xbox Series S doesn’t like some developers. Few days ago Rocksteady called this console a “potato”, and said that it’s his fault that Gotham Knights don’t have different graphical options on consoles. Lee Devonald, a technical character artist at Rocksteady, was responsible for these tweets, and the controversy they caused was such that he eventually decided to delete them.

i think devonald hit the brakes and tried to blame the Xbox Series S on Rocksteady’s shoddy work, because it makes no sense to say that this console prevented them from integrating at least one more game mode running at a lower resolution to improve fluidity. It can’t be that complicated and seeing how bad Batman Arkham Knight is doing on PC and how bad Gotham Knights is doing on compatible games, it’s clear to me that they just wanted to throw balls and they just didn’t. their work well.

However, this does not change the fact that the Xbox Series S Some developers don’t like it. It’s something we’ve confirmed on previous occasions, but Ian Maclure, a special effects artist at Bossa Studios, went further and said the situation has reached the point where certain studios are trying to get Microsoft to remove the requirement to launch the game on Xbox Series X and Series S.

What would this mean for users? Well, very simple that if Microsoft accepts, developers would no longer be required to launch the game on Xbox Series S and Series X, they could only launch it on Xbox Series X and leave the Xbox Series S. With that in mind, I think we can be sure that Microsoft won’t back down, because that would be like throwing rocks at your own roof. However, the Redmond giant is introducing optimizations in the said console to make the work of developers a little easier.