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[skyfall]

Series S bros... It's over

 

[THE DUCK]

Series S was a mistake.
Phil is cornered to not back down from his error. This is just a silent admission

The gamepass revenue and sales of series S say otherwise.

 

[Mister Wolf]

More like your post should exist since it has no merit. Honestly mods should probably just ban everyone who runs into a series S thread to say this, since it's meaningless at this point. It exists, people like it, they sell games for it, it's going to be sold for years to come. It's time to move on.

My opinion stands. Get used to seeing it on this forum. Don't like it? Hit the ignore button.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Cross progression with Steam?

 

[MarkMe2525]

Damn this is surprising, I fully expected them to hold their ground on this. I can't fault them for wanting to have a more flexible stance on the parity between their two consoles.

I would like to know if this was a one time exception, or a blanket policy going forward. While they have only run up on this issue once, I can imagine a world were in a few years time, we may get a handful of games per year that don't have feature parity between the Series consoles. That is of course, if this turns out to their new policy on the required parity.

 

[mckmas8808]

Phil coming through yet again.

But..... He created the parity clause in the first case.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I hear lawsuits also give you free rent as well.

Good luck.

Good luck for anyone to try and define feature parody in a courtroom.

 

[Kataploom]

Expected.

Seriously time for devs to stop catering to that hardware. You get what you pay for.

They're not tho, of they were, you wouldn't be seeing these news

 

[MarkMe2525]

But..... He created the parity clause in the first case.

Yeah, but it's easy to see why that was their stance to begin with. As long as it was feasible, it made sense from a marketing perspective. Only time will tell if this becomes a more frequent occurrence. That would not be too fun for a Series S only gamer.

 

[mckmas8808]

Yeah, but it's easy to see why that was their stance to begin with. As long as it was feasible, it made sense from a marketing perspective. Only time will tell if this becomes a more frequent occurrence. That would not be too fun for a Series S only gamer.

That's the problem it was always a marketing scam. Many of us said this 4 years ago.

 

[Kataploom]

The feature is still coming to Series S BTW, I read it on Twitter but don't have the tweets right now. What they said was it was taking a lot more than they can allow themselves to implement so they'll take their time.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Reckon I'll still get it on PC but glad they are being pragmatic about this to get it released on the Series consoles.

 

[radewagon]

The beginning of Series S downfall.
Developers will be allowed to cut more and more features by threatening to not release the game on Xbox at all.

 

[JayDucker]

Xbox engineers when leaving Larian

 

[Varteras]

Really confused why Microsoft doesn't just simply show Larian the switch that makes a game run perfectly fine on weaker hardware.

 

[balls of snow]

Caved to a 96 meta game not made by Rockstar. The power of bear.

 

[adamsapple]

With BG3 also coming to Xbox this year, the console is just insanely good for WRPG fans this year.

 

[MarkMe2525]

That's the problem it was always a marketing scam. Many of us said this 4 years ago.

Your point has merit if this turns out to be a semi-frequent occurrence.

 

[Spitfire098]

Phil coming through yet again.

how did you get that tag under your name?

 

[mrmustard]

Smart move. It's almost like they wanted it to come after Starfield

 

[FoxMcChief]

Smart move. It's almost like they wanted it to come after Starfield

It was never going to compete with it. Starfield was always going to murder it. If anything, MS did them a kindness to get more sales later.

 

[adamsapple]

It was never going to compete with it. Starfield was always going to murder it. If anything, MS did them a kindness to get more sales later.

I think In Cold Blood also said in a different thread that in a podcast today or yesterday, Schrier said they have the xbox version ready but just pausing for Starfield. This news and them confirming the version will still be released later this year kinda proves that point.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

 

[supernova8]

Xbox engineers sent to Larian be like:

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[FeralEcho]

This is hilarious,I mean its a good move but this shouldnt have taken so long to make this decision.Imagine being these engineers right now....They worked for months on making that shit work to kust give up and say yeah no we'll just not have co-op on Series S.Does that mean that team is fired? I mean they literally failed.

 

[Robb]

Loosing out on one of the biggest 3rd party releases of the year was just what they needed. Good wake-up call.

 

[analog_future]

Going to be interesting to see how this could affect future titles moving forward.

 

[lh032]

I like how people praising Phil, when he just do a 180.

 

[damidu]

oh no, little potato backstabbed by daddy
anyways good call, more to come for sure.

 

[solidus12]

I wonder what kind of concession Remedy will make to run Alan Wake 2 on Series S.

 

[solidus12]

Even the xbox engineers can't fix this piece of hot manure

 

[FrankWza]

More like your post should exist since it has no merit. Honestly mods should probably just ban everyone who runs into a series S thread to say this, since it's meaningless at this point. It exists, people like it, they sell games for it, it's going to be sold for years to come. It's time to move on.

They promised something highlighted in this post by heisenberg 007. People believed it so they bought it. Selling millions on a promise doesn't legitimize a product. Delivering on it does. They made a parity mandate and they have now had to drop that.

#NeverForget

 

[FoxMcChief]

They promised something highlighted in this post by heisenberg 007. People believed it so they bought it. Selling millions on a promise doesn't legitimize a product. Delivering on it does. They made a parity mandate and they have now had to drop that.

One might say there was never parity. Again, what features would need to be considered feature parity. Series S doesn’t hit the same resolution, and sometimes doesn’t have the same display options. Like how some games don’t even offer a performance mode on the Series S version.

This is good news for me though.

 

[Tommi84]

Pay more get more. Pay less get less. That's the way it should be.

I agree, but MS saying you will be getting the SAME EXPERIENCE (minus the resolution, but that's understandable)

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

I like the Series S, but to hell with forced parity.

 

[UltimaKilo]

This is hilarious,I mean its a good move but this shouldnt have taken so long to make this decision.Imagine being these engineers right now....They worked for months on making that shit work to kust give up and say yeah no we'll just not have co-op on Series S.Does that mean that team is fired? I mean they literally failed.

I didn’t read that it won’t have split screen co-op, only that it will launch without it, meaning likely patched in later so MS can continue to make the parity claim.

 

[kruis]

Will be snowball effect from here. I don't envy series s owners lol

Nobody envies Series S owners.

 

[Buggy Loop]

BG3 broke the chains! Amazing. Speaks volumes on how much legitimacy this game has gained since launch.

 

[MasterCornholio]

I agree, but MS saying you will be getting the SAME EXPERIENCE (minus the resolution, but that's understandable)

Well every hardware has their limitations. I think it was a mistake that Microsoft tied the Series X to the Series S limitations but thankfully that's been rectified.

 

[drganon]

how did you get that tag under your name?

Years of service

 

[THE DUCK]

They promised something highlighted in this post by heisenberg 007. People believed it so they bought it. Selling millions on a promise doesn't legitimize a product. Delivering on it does. They made a parity mandate and they have now had to drop that.

Like fox said in his post, I don't think anyone really expected 100% feature parity, nor has there been from day 1. (Ray tracing in some games) The key point here being is the end user unhappy (doesnt seem like it) or are a bunch of people just trying to throw stones?

 

[adamsapple]

Years of service

But he didn't ask what you do in your spare time drag

 

[gaming_again]

Phew. I really didn’t want to play it on the PS5.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Guess those Xbox engineers can go back home now.

Seems Microsoft engineers aren't able to fit a round peg into a square hole, no matter how hard they try. And the usual shills here thought that wouldn't be the case.

If only people had warned them here...

 

[JTCx]

Phil Dispenser straight up finessed all you Series S owners lmfao.

 

[MasterCornholio]

Seems Microsoft engineers aren't able to fit a round peg into a square hole, no matter how hard they try. And the usual shills here thought that wouldn't be the case.

If only people had warned them here...

Maybe they should have sent them the actors from that Apollo movie?

Or better yet those robots controlled by Apollo from Alien Isolation.

 

[HawarMiran]

Smart move by Phil. Enforce stupid policy. Revert said policy. Have Xbox gamers cream their underwear for you. Thoughts? adamsapple

 

[adamsapple]

Smart move by Phil. Enforce stupid policy. Revert said policy. Have Xbox gamers cream their underwear for you. Thoughts? adamsapple

All we need now is Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria ™.

 

[supernova8]

All we need now is Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria ™.

Lord of the Red Rings of Death: Return to Parity

 

[MasterCornholio]

All we need now is Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria ™.

Hopefully this isn't just an exception but an actual change to the policy. No game should be delayed due to this it's just dumb.