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goopy20 on 14 August 2020

Digital Foundry's John Linneman has talked to a bunch of developers who have said no one wants to work on the under powered Jaguar CPU's any longer. Says it's a painful process. The tweet was followed up by a post from Liza Shulyayeva, a former DICE programmer who confirmed it's hard to scale to these older systems.

Could this be why Xbox One support got removed from some of the Series X games? 



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DonFerrari on 14 August 2020

No, that can't be true, we heard it is very easy and don't impact next-gen at all.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

kirby007 on 14 August 2020

Looks at OP, hehehehehe have fun boys
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Wman1996 on 14 August 2020

This will make games trickier to run on Switch, but Switch wasn't getting much AAA third-party support anyway. At least not as much as some people claim.



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DonFerrari on 14 August 2020
Wman1996 said:
This will make games trickier to run on Switch, but Switch wasn't getting much AAA third-party support anyway. At least not as much as some people claim.

It is true, but also would still have those games that would get a good sales push with a Switch port and the company may port or hire someone to do it. We will need to see how it will happen.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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Chazore on 14 August 2020

Thread title mentions PS4/X1, but your ending question is only Xbox related...

C'mon Goopy, you gotta try harder than that man.



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DonFerrari on 14 August 2020
Chazore said:
Thread title mentions PS4/X1, but your ending question is only Xbox related...

C'mon Goopy, you gotta try harder than that man.

Besides all the other reasons that could be given, one that is valid is that Sony is moving away from PS4 faster and didn't mention any first party crossgen to be released.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Intrinsic on 14 August 2020

I'm shocked.



Dulfite on 14 August 2020
BraLoD said:
It's fine, PS5 is there for a reason.

Burn of the day!



goopy20 on 14 August 2020
Chazore said:
Thread title mentions PS4/X1, but your ending question is only Xbox related...

C'mon Goopy, you gotta try harder than that man.

I know but Sony's been pretty clear that they want to move on asap, while Phil Spencer has said: "Xbox One Releases Holding Back Xbox Series X Games is a Meme."

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-series-x-xbox-one-exclusives-held-back-meme-phil-spencer