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Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Larian has delayed the release of Baldur’s Gate 3, currently on pace to possibly be 2023’s Game of the Year, until they can figure out how to make split-screen work on Series S.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Series S is basically an X with a weaker GPU

If it was just a GPU difference, you'd be right it should be easy to just run it less pretty. But the memory limitations are the real issue. The X has 16 GB of memory and the S has 10 GB. And worse, the memory performance is drastically different. The X has 10 GB that runs at 560 GB/s and 6 that runs at 336 GB/s, where as the S has 8 GB at 224 GB/s and 2 GB at 56GB/s. (I did not miss a zero on the last value)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy crap that's an absurd kneecapping with the RAM. No wonder they're having parity issues

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It has less RAM than the Xbox ONE X as well and is incapable of running backwards compatible games with Xbox One X enhancements.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-series-s-likely-wont-be-able-to-run-xbox-one-x-content-its-claimed/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Holy shit I had no idea. The Xbox One X really is more powerful, at least in some regards, than a system that came out 3 years later.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wow i did not realize that about the ram

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some phones have more RAM than a Series S? Wow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They are usually more expensive too tbh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I was unaware that the memory difference was so drastic. I was under the wrong assumption it was the same speed but less (as less is needed for 1080p)