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[DeltaPolarBear]

Don't forget, Google Chrome, browser of all mighty Google, was famous for memory leaks and needed to be rebooted regularly. They might have fixed it since but I could not be bothered to test it anymore.

For gamers, the most famous case of memory leaks might be the PS3 with Skyrim. Granted it was not the only issue with Skyrim, it is just one of many bugs. PS3 just made it worse.
Bethsda told us about memory problems

But basically the less spare resources the machine has, the more likely they couldn't tolerate the loss of memory.

 

[Little Chicken]

They really aren't having a lot of luck with big games, are they?

Which big games would those be? Pal World?

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Which big games would those be? Pal World?

I was thinking more of Baldur's Gate III last year. This year and last year's huge breakout hits, basically.

 

[SHA]

I hate being the first in beating the game, whatever.

 

[SHA]

BG3 was the surprise hit of last year and Wukong is the surprise hit of this year. And MS failed to release both day one.

They are cursed.

Imagine them having the 10 gen version of switch and series x, that's way worse.

 

[Yoboman]

I can't believe sony is paying for these LIES

 

[Harlock]

Series S is the memory leak.

 

[Heisenberg007]

We all know what it means, right?

Sony's timed-exclusivity was just converted into full-time exclusivity! /s

 

[Heisenberg007]

edit 2: wait a frickin minute, then why is Xbox saying that "they can't comment on deals made with other platform holders"?

Because that was a disingenuous argument to begin with.

Jez never told (1) who was the Microsoft person he talked to and (2) he never even shared the question that he asked.

For all we know, Jez could have asked, "I have heard that Sony has timed exclusivity for 20 games next year. What do you have to say about it?" And the Microsoft person responded, "we can't comment on deals made with other platform holders."

It was a misleading article through and through that gave fanboys cope and ammo.

 

[Damigos]

They really aren't having a lot of luck with big games, are they?

Someone might say its not about luck

 

[semiconscious]

i love my series s because it's a cheap way for me to experience the xbox catalog, something i've never done till now. that said, it's ended up seriously screwing things up, just as everyone was saying it would. but i'm not sure that xbox ever really stood a chance this gen, anyway, series s or not. only a massive sony fuck-up could've maybe saved the day, & it didn't happen...

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Because that was a disingenuous argument to begin with.

Jez never told (1) who was the Microsoft person he talked to and (2) he never even shared the question that he asked.

For all we know, Jez could have asked, "I have heard that Sony has timed exclusivity for 20 games next year. What do you have to say about it?" And the Microsoft person responded, "we can't comment on deals made with other platform holders."

It was a misleading article through and through that gave fanboys cope and ammo.

Yep, that answer was weird. I think Jez knows or feels like the Xbox days are numbered and is afraid for his job. But things are going to get worse for an unethical person like him

 

[Heisenberg007]

Yep, that answer was weird. I think Jez knows or feels like the Xbox days are numbered and is afraid for his job. But things are going to get worse for an unethical person like him

Exactly. These guys built their livelihood around a failing brand, and now they are panicking.

It's the same reason we see guys like Timdog jump ships and suddenly become "PS fans".

 

[Slothbeing1209]

 

[cireza]

At least the audience will have it eventually, right cireza

So desperate to prove shit that you quote me totally out of context ? You poor thing.

A memory leak is the developer's fault. This is unrelated to the console. Leaks on every console most certainly, will crash quicker on consoles with less memory.

 

[kazuyamishima]

Damn, whatever quantity is between the profits of It ends with us and Helldivers 2 Minus the losses of Concord, that’s the quantity Sony paid the Studio to have the game as a Console exclusive.

I think Sony are more evil than a lot of people believe to.

 

[Starbuck2907]

Thread title is a bit misleading. “Temporarily” seems more appropriate than “indefinitely” which usually implies a long wait.

 

[azertydu91]

Thread title is a bit misleading. “Temporarily” seems more appropriate than “indefinitely” which usually implies a long wait.

I disagree ...Not that I don't think that BMW might not come out on xbox, just that we usualy use indefinetly wrong.Wouldn''t indefinetely here means just that there is no date yet?
And in most cases here indefinetly == cancelled.But I do agree that it iss mostly splitting hair in 4 and just arguing for the semantic, I do think it will come out just that nobody knows (probably even internally) when.

 

[BlackTron]

So desperate to prove shit that you quote me totally out of context ? You poor thing.

A memory leak is the developer's fault. This is unrelated to the console. Leaks on every console most certainly, will crash quicker on consoles with less memory.

This is out of context? The context of our other conversation was that Series S has been making Xbox miss big game releases.

If this game isn't on S due to a technical issue they can't solve as fast as other hardware because it has shit RAM, then that is exactly what has happened and why Series X owners are screwed.

 

[BlackTron]

Indefinitely just means for an unknown amount of time - could be a day, could be never.

Yes I know. It doesn't mean cancelled but it does mean "we have no clue when it will be ready" which is a pretty concerning look for a game that already came out.

 

[GHG]

Well, yes. Of course it's delayed indefinitely, it never had a release date to begin with ala BG3, they'll put a release date on it whenever they fix the problem they're having. That's how it works.

What happened to shame?:

Slimy platform things.

At least most of the other numbskulls from that thread have refused to comment here. You on the other hand...

 

[Topher]

So Microsoft lied?

 

[DenchDeckard]

Is this person to be trusted or will this get debunked in the next few hours once the story starts spreading?

 

[Topher]

Is this person to be trusted or will this get debunked in the next few hours once the story starts spreading?

The only ones who could "debunk" this is Game Science and they have already said the game isn't on Xbox yet due to technical issues.

 

[SirTerry-T]

Memory leaks....ha ha. Pull the other one. Memory leaks in game dev cycles are like bug hunting 101.
Amateur hour.

 

[BlackTron]

Is this person to be trusted or will this get debunked in the next few hours once the story starts spreading?

It can't be. Soon the emails will be leaked that show they only started work on the Xbox version when Sony decided to allow it.

 

[DenchDeckard]

The only ones who could "debunk" this is Game Science and they have already said the game isn't on Xbox yet due to technical issues.

I 100% believe it is down to them working on the game technically. I am just saying that there seems to be a lot of so called stories in the gaming industry, coming from these random twitter accounts that claim things and then a few hours later the actual developers come out and say "this is bollocks"

Ie = Clickbait, and it keeps on working.

 

[BlackTron]

Well, yes. Of course it's delayed indefinitely, it never had a release date to begin with ala BG3, they'll put a release date on it whenever they fix the problem they're having. That's how it works.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Its okay they made more than enough money on PC. Start fixing the game first and foremost and then everything else.

 

[Topher]

I 100% believe it is down to them working on the game technically. I am just saying that there seems to be a lot of so called stories in the gaming industry, coming from these random twitter accounts that claim things and then a few hours later the actual developers come out and say "this is bollocks"

Except in this case it is in line with what the devs have already said.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Except in this case it is in line with what the devs have already said.

True.

 

[BlackTron]

What if it's ALL true? And Sony made a deal with the studio to sabotage the Xbox version with technical issues because they felt threatened

 

[DenchDeckard]

What if it's ALL true? And Sony made a deal with the studio to sabotage the Xbox version with technical issues because they felt threatened

 

[BlackTron]

Im not on drugs ms would never lie twice, ur on drugs LOSER

 

[DenchDeckard]

Im not on drugs ms would never lie twice, ur on drugs LOSER

I'm only joking around.

 

[BlackTron]

I'm only joking around.

And I'm 110% fucking serious right now!!!!111!!1one

 

[BlackTron]

Which big games would those be? Pal World?

They even had bad luck with the game they did get. They ended up blatantly ripping Nintendo's marketing slogan on an Xbox bundle package in exchange for an unupdated version of a game that had 15 minutes of fame. Since it was on Gamepass, it probably just cost MS a chunk of money to have the game, plus more money selling a few Series S for people to get $1 gamepass on. Most people super into Palworld probably recognized they would be better off with PC because they wouldn't have to wait 6 months for game update. Edit: MS review process is for all updates but it hurt especially here because the game wasn't finished yet.

 

[Panajev2001a]

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Translation via Reddit, sources told Xbox content creator and leaker Exta1sis that the Xbox version is delayed indefinitely due to a memory leak:





Source

I wonder what could be the device with constrained memory and a funky memory setup to reduce costs that could be giving them problems…

Mmmh…

 

[Esppiral]

Sony paid for that bug.

Yes, they made it console exclusive xDDD

 

[GymWolf]

I guess chinese tools are hard to find.

 

[Panajev2001a]

BG3 was the surprise hit of last year and Wukong is the surprise hit of this year. And MS failed to release both day one.

They are cursed.

I see the great wizards that cast the S curse:

The chant went “the power of One, the power of 360, the power of S and easy scalable settings that can render XSX graphics at a lower resolution, engines are easy to scale, and games always get designed for the max specs and scaled down it is easy it is the older engines that just scale stuuuuuuupiiiiid”.

 

[Esppiral]

In all seriousness, if the game is leaking memory on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X, it may be a nightmare to fix on Series S.

 

[BlackTron]

I wonder what could be the device with constrained memory and a funky memory setup to reduce costs that could be giving them problems…

A memory leak is the developer's fault. This is unrelated to the console. Leaks on every console most certainly, will crash quicker on consoles with less memory.

 

[Astray]

Any time Sony gets an L, Microsoft scrambles to surround it with 5 L's of its own.

This is why Sony gets to coast along.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Sounds like code for “Probably never releasing on this shit console.”

No one will play it unless it’s on RentPass anyway.

 

[BlackTron]

I see the great wizards that cast the S curse:

The chant went “the power of One, the power of 360, the power of S and easy scalable settings that can render XSX graphics at a lower resolution, engines are easy to scale, and games always get designed for the max specs and scaled down it is easy it is the older engines that just scale stuuuuuuupiiiiid”.

This. Series S was perfect during the cross-gen phase. MS made a mistake by tying their flagship console to a cross-gen console that was going to hold them back when next-gen actually started. It needed to either have specs good enough to handle next-gen or not exist. It was marketed as a next-gen system while in reality being a cross-gen system on a time limit. They should have seen it.

Sony consolidated one future platform while just selling PS4 games longer and it paid off. People can't accept their success and failure this gen stems from strategic differences and planning.

 

[M1chl]

Time for gaming industry to use RUST as appose to CPP/C, they are too incompetent to be trusted with manual memory management, without some heavy barriers. This has been issue since forever to a degree, most famous examples are Skyrim on PS3 and Bughesda Games in general.

This also is way bigger issue for Direct X, given that memory mapper is not your code, but API. Thus it kind of make sense, as the message itself goes

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Any time Sony gets an L, Microsoft scrambles to surround it with 5 L's of its own.

This is why Sony gets to coast along.

Microsoft doubles down on Ls. Nintendo and Sony at least try to do things differently when they blunder.

 

[FunkMiller]

 

[Negotiator101]

So we have an un-optimised piece of crap on PC and even worse on PS5 yet we still have the Series S haters crawling out of the woodwork