Xbox boss Phil Spencer has confirmed that the inferior Xbox cannot be ignored and must continue to be supported by developers.
There will be no Xbox Series X exclusive games. Currently, developers are required to create games that will also run on the Xbox Series S or they will not be released on Microsoft platforms. However, we have heard from several developers that they feel the Xbox Series S is holding them back. Baldur’s Gate 3 was delayed on Redmond’s consoles for a reason. Microsoft finally gave Larian permission to drop the split-screen co-op gameplay from the Xbox Series S version because it was difficult for the Belgians to make it work on the smaller Xbox.
We’ve also heard from Game Science that Black Mythos: Wukong was not released on Xbox Series S alongside PlayStation 5 and PC because the Xbox Series S did not get the green flag from Microsoft. In an interview, Spencer said that Xbox Series S support is still mandatory and that Microsoft will develop games with that platform in mind.
“The scalability of engines today allows developers to scale from ray-tracing capable, multi-thousand-dollar graphics cards on desktop PCs all the way down to a battery-powered handheld device, so for me the Xbox Series S has been helpful in our portfolio. I’m playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on it, and it looks great, so it’s definitely capable of playing current generation games in a great way, but most of your games that are going to be out there are going to support these different devices, and the Xbox Series S spec of what it is actually maps pretty well to the devices that we’re seeing being introduced right now. So I think it is actually an important design point for teams going forward, that kind of power-performance mix that you see in the Xbox Series S,” Spencer said.
So ignoring the smaller Xbox is simply not an option.
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