Remedy: Xbox Series S optimization is much harder than some gamers think

The situation with the Xbox Series S is no different from previous console generations. The lowest-spec system ends up setting the baseline because you have to make the game work on it, right? It's easy to say, 'Just lower the resolution and texture quality and you're good to go,' but it's nowhere near that simple.

When you say it like that, it certainly sounds great, but every game engine is built differently. It's one thing when gamers say, 'This engine does all these cool things!' Well, it depends. Is your engine more GPU-bound or CPU-bound? What are you pushing harder? In Control, we try to push both chips to the limit because we have a lot of physics, but also plenty of ray-tracing effects. That makes a huge difference on the Xbox Series S, because its APU's GPU component is significantly weaker than the one in the more powerful console.