Explain to me as a breh that thought about copping a next gen console, but decided to just stay PC gang, how the Series S holding the industry back? I'm one of those smooth brained marsupials that thought the series S is just a 1080p console
Series S is weaker then Series X. Which wouldnt be a problem, but Microsoft has a parity rule. Parity rule says if you want to release a game on the X it has to release on the S with the same features.
So now Devs gotta waste extra time and resources to get a game running on the S if a feature doesnt just copy over from the X, they can't release on Xbox hardware at all.
Take BG3 for example. They have the XSX and PS5 versions done, with the same features. They ran into an issue on the S with getting split screen to work, because the hardware is so weak compared to XSX/PS5. They had to waste months of dev time trying to get the feature on the S, with the help of Microsoft's engineers. MS just caved and said they can release w/o the split screen on S. So now they can release on Xbox.
With Naruto, it seems the Series S cant do 60fps, so they gave XSX players an option to block last get/Series S players from matchmaking, since XSX/PS5 can do 60fps.