I mean... this is untrue and you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
They can't get drop-in drop-out multiplayer working on the S.
If they managed it, they'd literally be the first devs to pull off this feat for the little white box, and they've had to hire additional engineers just to tackle this problem. And they
still can't give a timeline beyond '2024'
I will repeat this: they would be the
first devs to do this.
That's... that's not an outlier. That's not what that word means. You just itching to push the idea that this underpowered system is 'just as good' when it isn't. The S is less functional by enough degrees that the thing is already causing development bottlenecks and we're still new enough into the console generation that games are still releasing cross-gen.
And they will continue to do so. Because tech-wise, the S is closer to the One X than it is to the Series X.
This is not an 'outlier' situation. It's a problem that has been in existence since the console's release, but has largely been avoidable because the major affliction for Xbox - lack of games that are truly 'next gen' - has hidden the severity of this issue. I have a 4090. And my framerate went do to the high-60s/low-70s while in act 3 of BG3. And I'm playing at 1440. Granted, I'm running at max. But... imagine trying to get an S to render something, even at decreased fidelity, that a fukking top of the line card can tripped up by.
Now consider how most people deriding BG3 are saying that it isn't even a real graphically intensive game like that.
And herein lies the problem with the S. It's mid-tier last-gen hardward handcuffed onto the X and literally anchoring all Xbox development.
That's not 'stan wars'. That's fukking game developers quite literally saying this. And it gets handwaved by team green because nikkas will believe what best suits their inclination; irrespective of factual accuracy or rational discourse that disproves their precious baby.
It's an underpowered system. Point blank fukking period. And literally everything you can play on an S, you can play on PC and will be able to do it better. So I ask; what's the point of a Series S when the Xbox ecosystem is overlapping with PC to this degree?
There isn't.
Talk nonsense while not understanding tech brehs