Game news Gotham Knights: “A generation of games paralyzed by this potato”, Rocksteady not a fan of the Xbox Series S
Gotham Knights will not have a 60 FPS framerate. According to a former Rocksteady, it’s the fault of the Xbox Series S!
Lee Devonald, a former developer of Rocksteadyn’a not been kind to the Xbox Series Saccusing him of drag down an entire generation of video games.
Gotham Knights limited to 30 FPS…
A few days ago, we shared information with you: Gotham Knights, the next game from WB Games will be captured at 30 frames per second. Remember that Warner Bros. Games was overseeing Rocksteady on the Batman Arkham series, having even developed Arkham Origins. Currently, Rocksteady is developing Suicide Squad and WB Games Montreal is developing Gotham Knights, both of which are published by Warner Bros. Interactive. Fleur Marty, producer of the title, said that this limitation mainly came from developing a highly detailed open-world gamein which it was also necessary to ensure the stability in a co-op multiplayer experience. These various factors had, according to her, forced WB Games Montreal to do not exploit the performance modes of the PS5 and Xbox Series. If many fans had been surprised that a current-gen exclusive game was limited to 30 FPS even with these explanations, a former developer of the studio advances another reason …
Xbox Series S: “An entire generation of games, paralyzed by this potato”
Ancien senior character technical artist of Rocksteady, having notably worked on Suicide Squad : Kill the Justice League, Lee Devonald spoke on social media about the 30 FPS on studio games. The developer claims that the reason for this limitation is very simple: the Xbox Series S. According to him, Microsoft’s console, less powerful than its competitors, would be the only reason for the limitations of games of this generation, when it is a game available only on this one. He considers that the Series S pulls the games down, even calling the console a “potato”.
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Senior dev says Xbox Series S is holding back this generation of games and says it’s not much better than a last gen console. pic.twitter.com/evrnGqt9Zc
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Lee Devonald : I would like players to understand what 60 FPS means, in terms of how much they “lose” in order to run the game that fast.
Particularly quad we take into account that we have a current console generation which is not much more efficient than the previous one.
Response from a user : Interesting. I sincerely wonder, where would be the brake – if there is one – in the latest consoles? Do we already have data on this, or are these consoles “generally balanced”?
Lee Devonald : The Series S graphics processor.
Cross-platform games should always be optimized for the lowest performance machines.
Another response from a user : I mean, the Series X is much more powerful than an Xbox One, but yeah…
Lee Devonald : The Series S exists, however. And Microsoft will never let you launch a game on one without launching it on the other.
An entire generation of games, paralyzed by this potato.
Not the first developer to complain about the Xbox Series S
As you can imagine, this kind of explanation did not really please the players, who responded, for some, in a rather vehement way (reason for which Lee Devonald has since deactivated his Twitter account). Especially when we see that some games have very good performance on Series S : recently, Cyberpunk 2077 has been updated, allowing it to hit 60 FPS on Series S! However, this is not not the first time since its launch that developers have attacked the Series S. As WccfTech reminds us, Id Softwarechez 4A Gameschez Techlandthere are many developers from various studios in complained because the Series S was restricting their work and performance of their games. Microsoft had responded, offering a sensible update change the distribution of the Series S resource allocation. According to them, this should make the machine more efficient, finally achieving its promise of 1440p/120 FPS. It seems that at WB Games Montreal, we couldn’t even reach 60 FPS on the Series S for Gotham Knights…
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Gotham Knights releases on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series on October 21.