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Kyuu on 14 October 2025
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curl-6 said:
Kyuu said:

There are also games that "perform better" on the less popular AND less powerful console. This is especially true on older consoles with major architectural differences. But this doesn't apply to the vast majority of games.

Still I'm curious what games you're referring to. I remember there was like 1 or 2. Can you name them?

If they "perform better" because the the One X resolution is much higher, then that wouldn't necessarily be an issue of optimization. All it means resolution was "over-prioritized" on Xbox.

Off the top of my head, Ace Combat 7 and Black Ops 6 run worse on the X without a visual advantage, despite the X being objectively stronger hardware.

Thanks for sharing. Checked DF's videos on both. Curious cases, but obvious outliers. DF suspects Ace Combat 7's superior performance on PS4 Pro may be the result of the extra optimization to get it to run smoothly enough on PSVR. Black Ops 6 primarily targets current gen consoles, and is an obvious outlier to other COD games which do play better on powerful Xbox consoles.

In an industry with hundreds of games released annually, there will always be a bunch of outliers. There's nothing revelatory about this.

PS5 trading blows with Series X is the norm. Both have meaningful advantages over the other, and the Series X does generally have the upper hand when resolution is factored in.

Magnus will not quite "100%" play all games better mind you, but the vast majority of them should (ignoring the likely stutters, since it's a PC) if the reported specs are accurate and no secret sauces are involved. Time will tell.