A Rocksteady Developer Criticizes The Xbox Series S!

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Another Warner developer has responded to the recently mentioned performance limitation of Gotham Knights.

We’ve already reported that Gotham Knights, coming soon from WB Games Montréal, will not have a performance-focused mode (even though they’ve cancelled the PlayStation 4/Xbox One ports), so it will run at a maximum of 30 FPS on both Xbox Series and PlayStation 5. Reactions have been mixed (some have been disappointed, others angry).

Lee Devonald, who works at Rocksteady (known for the Batman: Arkham series and now making Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League), posted about it on Twitter (but has since deleted his profile, but the internet is not forgetting this time:

“I wish gamers understood what 60 frames per second means in terms of all of the things they *lose* to make the game run that fast. Especially considering that we have a current-gen console that’s not much better than a last-gen one. [The Xbox] Series S GPU [is] mostly [the problem]. Multi-platform games always have to optimize for the lowest performer. The [Xbox] Series S exists, though, and Microsoft won’t let you launch on one without the other. An entire generation of games, hamstrung by that potato.”

Some have already hinted that the Xbox Series S will hold back the current generation of consoles. First, Billy Khan, id Software’s lead engine programmer, was worried about less RAM and split memory banks. Thomas Puha of Remedy Entertainment said that optimizing for it isn’t as simple as bringing down texture quality or rendering resolution, then 4A Games’ head of technology Oleksandr Shyshkovtsov mentioned that it’s not the Xbox Series S RAM but the GPU that will cause problems in the future. Tymon Smektala, the lead designer of Dying Light 2, pointed out that they couldn’t get FPS higher than 30 because of the “little brother”.

The Xbox Series S recently received an update that freed up hundreds of extra megabytes of memory for developers. The question is whether WB Games Montréal could put it to use in Gotham Knights, which is due out next week.

Source: WCCFTech

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