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In a recent interview with GamingBolt, when asked if he feels the Xbox Series S will be able to hold up its promise as a 1440p/60 FPS console as the generation progresses and developers start making more graphically intensive games, studio owners and co-founder Micah Jones of Quantum Error said that to achieve that, you’d have to specifically build a game around the Xbox Series S’ lesser hardware, thus sacrificing technical and visual leaps made possible by the PS5 and Xbox Series X.

“No, I think you have to build your game specifically to run on the S to get those specs with techniques that are used on lesser hardware. If we can get the Quantum Error Series S port optimized and acceptable graphically above our current tests, it will be 30 fps. We have all played some phenomenal games at 30 fps. But in this current generation if the graphics look blurry and smudgy, it greatly lessens the experience in our view. We use Real Illusions Character Creator for our character creation, and it has already advanced beyond what we used. We started on Unreal 4 and we finished the game on Unreal Engine 5.2 but now Unreal Engine 5.3 is coming out soon. The software advances will always outpace the hardware. For us personally, we come at game development as artists, photographers, cinematographers, writers, musicians, and partial computer nerds.

For me, the graphics are insanely important, and my artistic style always leans to the darker side and light usage in dark spaces is the biggest component that excites me. I want to stretch the tech as far as I possibly can. I could have easily made a game with lush landscapes and reflective water with amazing bright happy skies, but what happens when you just take metal, glass, metal, glass, metal, more metal and a little more metal and you use Global Illumination in dark spaces. The way the light scatters naturally and goes in between spaces, the bounce light gets us really excited and once you see it, you just can’t go back to using old lighting techniques. So for us and our studio, we aren’t going to build games for lower tech specs. This is part of why I have been a giggling little kid over what I am being able to do with QE using Nvidia tech for PC. But then Noah (Jones, co-founder) is hardcore about performance so we balance each other. Our PC version minimum specs will not go below the PS5 specs and will push the 4090 as hard as we can.”

Speaking specifically about the Xbox Series S version of Quantum Error, Jones said, the current state of the game on Microsoft’s lower-spec console is “unacceptable”, and that TeamKill Media “won’t release it in its current state.”

When asked if that means the studio is unsure the game can work on the Xbox Series S, he added: “We are not 100% sure yet, the Series S so far works but it runs really poorly, frame rate is very low, and resolution is extremely blurry. We will continue to work to see if we can improve things, but the current state of the game on the Series S is unacceptable.”

 

[djjinx2]

Other developers get on just fine

 

[Slicker than your average]

Oh shit here we go again.

 

[Tsaki]

This is the game that was talked about even before the consoles came out, right? I think it's just the dev trying to rile up console warring to make their game more visible.

 

[Mephisto40]

Could this be the first "Xbox series X required" xbox game...

 

[alphachino]

This is the game that was talked about even before the consoles came out, right? I think it's just the dev trying to rile up console warring to make their game more visible.

Yeah, you might be right! At least, its definitely not the case that Series S is legitimately trash, must be that the devs are stoking the console war. Riiight…

 

[onnextflix5]

How did Microsoft engineers not realise this could be an issue going forward, especially as the ps5 has such a commanding lead, devs will never use a Xbox as the base platform.

 

[jm89]

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Other developers get on just fine

Dude...we're hearing a story like this every week at this point. Where have you been?

 

[Slicker than your average]

Dude...we're hearing a story like this every week at this point. Where have you been?

Buried in Phil's ass

 

[cyberheater]

Could this be the first "Xbox series X required" xbox game...

I thought that an MS requirement is that games have to run on all current gen Xbox hardware.

 

[Big Baller]

 

[balls of snow]

We are hearing about this dev go on and on about Quantum fuckking Error since 2021. Release the game for it to be 5/10 on metacritic and be done with it

 

[lostinblue]

We left the port for the least powerful console for last and now it sucks.

 

[Stuart360]

I know some will be creaming over this but this is from the asset flip brothers who just use store bought assets for their 'games'.
Calling them developers would need an asterix lol.

Also this is actually good news for anyone with genuine 'concerns' about the S holding back games as he only mentions the S and not the XSX or PS5.

 

[Tsaki]

Yeah, you might be right! At least, its definitely not the case that Series S is legitimately trash, must be that the devs are stoking the console war. Riiight…

I don't care to defend the S. I think it has serious RAM amount and bandwidth problems, that will only become worse the fewer cross-gen games come out, never mind the next cross-gen period in 2030. But if it's the same dev that I think of, they've been doing this stuff all the time.

 

[HawarMiran]

I would be quite if my game looked like this to begin with. Game looks like trash

 

[alphachino]

I thought that an MS requirement is that games have to run on all current gen Xbox hardware.

Well Larian said they dont have to for BG3, not sure why any other dev would be beholden to that mandate. Series S is basically dead now and MS deserve to be sued into the ground for their fake empty promises regarding the Series S.

 

[Mephisto40]

I thought that an MS requirement is that games have to run on all current gen Xbox hardware.

It is, but I can't honestly see that lasting the entire Gen

 

[feynoob]

This is the devs that made this game.

This is just promotional ads and benefiting from the drama.

They need to focus more on the gameplay, instead of ssd shit.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Vaporware or trash game. You can already tell.

 

[feynoob]

I would be quite if my game looked like this to begin with. Game looks like trash

I wouldnt be suprised if turned out trash.
Devs these days are focused with graphics and shit, instead of actually making a good game.

Its why larian made a good rpg game, while bethesda failed with starfield.

 

[rickybooby87]

Me who owns a Series S but couldn't care less:

Others who owns a Series S but could care less:

 

[RJMacready73]

I honestly don't see what the problem is, don't PC games scale from 4090's all the way down to Steam Decks ffs without issue

 

[Tsaki]

Calling them developers would need an asterix lol.

My man

 

[VolticArchangel]

 

[Tsaki]

I honestly don't see what the problem is, don't PC games scale from 4090's all the way down to Steam Decks ffs without issue

A game can be available for the Steam Deck and still run at 5fps. This would not be acceptable for a console.

 

[Esppiral]

He Will be pleased by the Switch 2

 

[ArtHands]

sounds like they are incompetent

 

[Topher]

I honestly don't see what the problem is, don't PC games scale from 4090's all the way down to Steam Decks ffs without issue

XSS is not outputting to a 7" screen like Steam Deck.

 

[Connxtion]

This the developer that was on twitter saying that they don’t know how they are going to get the game running or have to make sacrifices on the series X due to the ssd being far to slow to do there boss battle where they swap out worlds at least a few times during said battle?

First person Dead space clone basically.

If so yeah it’s to get their indie game in the limelight. When they were asked how the above is true, could never answer

Yeah just looked them up before posting this. It’s the same dev

Edit:

Seems according to them, they have it running at 2k and 60FPS on all platforms

 

[Heisenberg007]

Quantum Error devs, at every chance they get

 

[feynoob]

I honestly don't see what the problem is, don't PC games scale from 4090's all the way down to Steam Decks ffs without issue

Its MS problem, not xss.
Their memory allocation method messed up their console.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Other developers get on just fine

Even Microsoft's specialized team that got sent to Larian Studios gave up on making BG3 split-screen work on Series S.

 

[feynoob]

Even Microsoft's specialized team that got sent to Larian Studios gave up on making BG3 split-screen work on Series S.

Because that is a cpu heavy game.
I think you are in for a rude awakening once that df video drops for baldurs gate 3 console version.

 

[Hudo]

Based Series S saving its users from a shit game.

 

[RoboFu]

taking out of context as they are in the process of optimizing the port, but sure okay.. if it makes you feel better

 

[Portugeezer]

They're trying their best to market the game, we only ever hear about it when talking about shit Series S specs.

 

[feynoob]

This the developer that was on twitter saying that they don’t know how they are going to get the game running or have to make sacrifices on the series X due to the ssd being far to slow to do there boss battle where they swap out worlds at least a few times during said battle?

First person Dead space clone basically.

If so yeah it’s to get their indie game in the limelight. When they were asked how the above is true, could never answer

Yeah just looked them up before posting this. It’s the same dev

Edit:

Seems according to them, they have it running at 2k and 60FPS on all platforms

So essentially the title is clickbait and worth nothing.
Like I said, just PR promotion. But with console fanboys, this is a good ammo for them.

 

[chromatic9]

From what I've seen it looks no better than anything that was running fine on PS4 and hundreds of frames per second on PC hardware of that time.

We're seeing too many games looking similar to Dying Light but tanking PC and console hardware.

 

[Robb]

 

[onnextflix5]

I honestly don't see what the problem is, don't PC games scale from 4090's all the way down to Steam Decks ffs without issue

Maybe read before commenting

“Our PC version minimum specs will not go below the PS5 specs and will push the 4090 as hard as we can.”

 

[acm2000]

jesus stop giving this clickbait shovelware studio the attention its after

 

[SportsFan581]

All the comments this dev makes will be even more hilarious when better games in all facets are scaling down nicely to the steamdeck and low-end PCs. This isn't a game that many care about at all, and it seems like this is their avenue to get attention more than anything else.

 

[M1chl]

This the developer that was on twitter saying that they don’t know how they are going to get the game running or have to make sacrifices on the series X due to the ssd being far to slow to do there boss battle where they swap out worlds at least a few times during said battle?

First person Dead space clone basically.

If so yeah it’s to get their indie game in the limelight. When they were asked how the above is true, could never answer

Yeah just looked them up before posting this. It’s the same dev

Edit:

Seems according to them, they have it running at 2k and 60FPS on all platforms

I am just posting this here, not that I have necessarily something against your post, but this feels tiring to see. DirectStorage API is pretty straight forward, you don't have to much with your assets coming from PS5, the kraken compression will work just fine, since DirectStorage isn't some decompressor, its just a transport layer. We've seen massive benefits with actually using it in games, so this, I don't really understand why we are still here, without proper support from games.

sigh...

 

[Little Chicken]

These devs do a lot of talking and not a lot of showing.

 

[UnNamed]

Quantum Error seems to be in a unaccetable state anyway.

 

[Unknown?]

Who cares? Parity is dead!

 

[DenchDeckard]

This developer is literally the worst. It's their only way to stay relevant.

 

[deriks]

Saber Interactive: *laughs* bitches