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I'm not sure Microsoft did this generation of consoles any favours by launching the Series S.

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[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But devs already have the Switch which has weaker specs.

[–] EarthlingHazard@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes but most devs leave it out since publishers originally let them. Activision recently said ignoring the switch was a mistake so I doubt publishers will be making the same mistake again when we have a new switch

[–] Neato@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With how little power the switch 2 likely will still have, developers will still ignore it.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I imagine it won’t be much stronger than the Steam Deck, and I’m dubious that that will serve 4-player splitscreen 60fps.

There’s a kind of upper limit we’re hitting with tech in regards to what can be delivered conveniently in a handheld format with a reasonable battery life. It might even explain why the Xbox S|X and PS5 are quite a bit bigger than predecessors.