Dune: Awakening on Xbox Series S is Going to be a 'Challenge' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2024 / 5,122 Views
Funcom chief product officer Scott Junior speaking with VG247 has stated it is going to be a "challenge" to optimize Dune: Awakening for the Xbox Series S.
"So, it's one of the reasons we're coming out on PC first. There's a lot of optimizations we need to do before we release on the Xbox," said Junior. "But yeah, Xbox Series S is a challenge."
He added, "Unreal does a lot of the work for us in some ways. What we're more doing is optimization of assets, and using various technologies, be it FSR or something else, to replicate frames. We want the game to look stunning on high-end, whether you have a 3070 or a 4090, but we also want it to look good... I don't think we've released our min-spec yet, but y'know powerful cards from a few years ago should be able to run the game. It should look good - it won't be able to leverage the ultra-spec options, but it'll still look nice."
He was asked if the game would still demand a lot from lower-spec machines despite all the optimization and he replied, "Yeah, yeah it does. But it will still perform well on hardware that's years and years old. We'll be able to do it!"
Dune: Awakening will launch for PC via Steam in early 2025, and at a later date for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Hamstring the whole generation + make yourself dead last and even selling less than last generation.
Thanks Microsoft for your genius idea of selling a console $100 less hoping to get more sales.
Fake news, Series S is not the problem, devs are!
Just drop the series s it's a fcken dumpster fire slowing everybody down
It's going to be bad regardless, Funcom has a history of releasing broken games on launch.
Doom run on the SNES
RE4 run on the PS2
CoD run on the Wii
Dune will be a challenge for the Series S.
Devs today are bad.
It's a good choice to release it on pc first and release it for consoles later if it requires a lot of work.
They didn't say "consoles" though did they? They specifically stated it was the Series S that would be a challenge. The other two consoles are fine
Exactly, the Series s is the known issue for more and more games this gen, Black Myth Wukong being the latest example as well and of course last years Baldur's Gate 3.
The biggest issue with Series S appears to be RAM. Baldur's Gate 3 had an issue with the split screen, which isn't crucial to simply playing the game. Wukong plays fine on the Steam Deck, which is overall a lot less capable than the Series S.
I don't know what the issue with this Dune game is, but wouldn't skip PS5 because of Series S.
Wukong is a timed exclusive not system limitations
https://www.ign.com/articles/black-myth-wukong-xbox-delay-due-to-sony-exclusivity-deal-not-tech-issues-according-to-source
Of course it would be you to believe this unreliable "source"
You'll believe anything that go your way! 😵'
Read the 1st comment on that clown web site.
If that was the case then how come we don't see Sony advertising this game?
It's literally IGN.
Other insiders have said otherwise
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/30/insiders-argue-imagined-black-myth-wukong-ps5-exclusivity-deal-21517528/
Cool, Even PS sites are saying it.
https://www.psu.com/news/black-myth-wukong-is-reportedly-a-ps5-timed-exclusive/
And even Xbox themselves
https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-statement-black-myth-wukong-delay-due-to-timed-playstation-exclusive-deal/
PS site uses the insiders from IGN and Forbes. Gamescience have said it's due to technical issues, same as enotria recently. I would believe the dev rather than the console manufacturer
I wouldnt believe the devs. They won't admit they took a money hat. That's like admitting bribery.
Enotria
"We believe that Xbox is blessed with a huge gaming community and we would love to release Enotria on your platform as fast as possible, as we spent a lot of money and resources to make it happen, but this task is nearly impossible with Microsoft taking months to reply to us when we have the game ready for submission. If you'd like to help please let Xbox know about our situation, if we had a dedicated xbox account manager help us out this issue would not exist, thank you so much!"
Source: https://x.com/enotriagame/status/1830677183695667270
Yeah that's been debunked. By a lot of people. Infact there are 50 pages of it.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/paul-tassi-black-myth-wukong-is-not-on-xbox-due-to-exclusivity-deal-not-tech-issues-up-ign-corroborates-but-others-are-unsure-tassi-walks-back.967587/
Your link shows a source of it being claimed Timed by Paul Tassi. Where is the debunk? The random responses?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXX41XkT_E&t=5268s
Digital Foundry's take.
You know.. people that actually have a take themselves as opposed to just "having a source".
John also said he does not believe the game is delayed due to memory leak claimed by the Devs.
Where there is smoke there is fire and Devs are also caught lying.
You can believe the Devs, but keep in mind, the Devs of Dying Light 2 said the Series S could not run a 60fps mode.. look where we are now. Mood was added.
The Medium Devs claimed no PS version and BAM PS version.
Well, they still have to release it for the Series S and X simultaneously, don't they? And I doubt they want to delay just the Xbox release.
I know, but I was just speaking purely of the technical capability of the S, relative to the other consoles because that's what the article is about.
