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konnichiwa said:

Ryuu96 said:

That's funny because at the time, many were saying that Halo Infinite's split-screen worked fine and 343 were stupid to drop it, Lol, I didn't agree but still. 60fps Redfall has nothing to do with Series S, as the Series X and S are allowed to have different framerates. Split-screen is however, a feature, and Microsoft requires feature parity between Series S/X.

All this drama over a feature that barely anyone will use anyway, Lol. Split-screen is a dying feature, it would have been far more preferable to just launch it without split-screen and patch it in later, or don't have it at all on Xbox. I think everyone would prefer that, but then they'd launch same time as Starfield on Xbox, which I think they're trying to avoid as well.

Anyway, Larian themselves have downplayed how much of an "issue" Series S is, Remedy's (marketing?) dude has made comments, yet Alan Wake 2 is still coming to Series S and looks great. Developers scale for different specs all the time. In addition, if Switch is supported more by developers, they really have no excuse to try to skip Series S, Lol.

AAA studios, can handle it. Jumping to "developers will start skipping Xbox because BG3 is launching slightly later on Xbox than PS!" is a quite a doomer exaggeration, it's still coming, it's taking slightly longer, it makes more sense for them to prioritise PS/PC due to Starfield as well, they literally moved the PC date forward to avoid Starfield, it stands to reason they want to avoid it on Xbox as well.

It worked fine but 343 could not do it, if a first party can't do it why complain about a third party one,  like you said yourself becaues of the feature parity between X/S, MS is saying fuck you to any X owner who wanted to play BG 3 on that day and should just get a Pc or PS.  The only thing that brings hope is that an announcement seems to be imminent + BG 1/2 coming to gamepass..

If AAA in the future can handle it or not doesn't matter, any dev who can't handle it and will not release it on Xbox will be treated as Sony buying (time) exclusives again and fuck the devs!!!

Gabegabe was a nice comment but is getting oudated, this september in Europe as an example you can choose between A black Xbox series S with 1TB for 350 Euro or an PS5 digital version for (almost)a similar price it is going to be a blood bath especially if sony is the one advertising the console with FC 2024.

There's a difference between can and desire to do something, 343 could have absolutely done it if they wanted to but they chose to prioritise their resources elsewhere, they even left the door open for it to come later (it definitely won't but still doesn't change my point). They could get split-screen on Halo Infinite but as it's such a niche feature, they believe their resources are better spent elsewhere.

There seems to be this assumption that Larian is this tiny indie studio, they aren't. They are a massive RPG developer, one of the biggest in the industry with over 450 employees and 6 studio locations across the world with a 30% investment from Tencent. I do believe that if they really focused on it that they could get split-screen working on Series S but I believe they're prioritising PS/PC because it makes more sense due to Starfield.

The feature parity is there because Series S is sold as a next gen console to consumers which would have parity with Xbox in all but resolution and framerate, if they removed the parity then they'd be saying "fuck you" to any Series S owner and open the doors up to every developer just ripping features from Series S. Like it or not, Series S is here and stabbing those consumers in the back only 3 years in would be a disaster PR move.

Is likewise, Sony or Larian saying fuck you to PS owners because the PC version launches a month before the PS version? Lol.

That Resetera comment is quite literally not outdated, it represents a very real consumer view and one that shouldn't be ignored, we are in a luxurious position to be in more financially stable countries so fuck everyone else in a poorer country that is able to game thanks to Series S, right? No, not right. PS having a similar price to Xbox or outselling it doesn't change that, not everyone wants a PS.

Dude in a poorer country wants to play Starfield but doesn't have the funds for a powerful PC or Series X, Series S is there for them.