No Rest for the Wicked Developer Blames Series S for Xbox Release Delay

The Xbox Series S is taking immoderate vigor erstwhile again pursuing comments made by the laminitis of Moon Studio, the squad down enactment RPG No Rest for the Wicked, which has been disposable connected Steam Early Access since 2024.

During the PlayStation State of Play, it was confirmed the crippled was coming to PS5 this October successful solemnisation of its 1.0 release, but Xbox users volition person to wait. This isn't owed to immoderate benignant of selling woody with PlayStation. Rather, it has to bash with limitations with the Xbox Series S. In effect to a instrumentality inquring astir the deficiency of an Xbox merchandise date, workplace laminitis and crippled manager Thomas Mahler pointed to the Series S.

"Series S is making that rough," said Mahler successful a remark connected Discord. "We'll vessel it aft successful a bully mode erstwhile it's optimized similar brainsick for Switch 2 and Xbox."

Another idiosyncratic joked that a mobile mentation would travel the Xbox and Switch 2 versions, to which Mahler responded: "Series S and mobile specs aren't excessively acold isolated astatine this point."

This is hardly the archetypal clip thing similar this has happened. The Xbox mentation of Black Myth: Wukong was delayed by a twelvemonth and it was heavy rumored that it whitethorn beryllium owed to difficulties processing for the consoles. Microsoft responded to these rumors noting that it had not been informed of specified troubles, but developer Game Science aboriginal suggested those rumors whitethorn person had immoderate information to them. Game Science CEO Yongar Feng-Ji noted successful January 2025 that the Xbox Series S' 10 GBs of shared representation was creating issues with optimization. When the crippled was yet released connected Xbox, the workplace confirmed that the hold was a effect of spending other clip trying to optimize the crippled specificially for Xbox.

Baldur's Gate 3 besides suffered issues erstwhile it came to processing for the Xbox Series S. The crippled had a staggered merchandise crossed platforms, arriving successful August 2023 for PC, September for PS5, and December for Xbox. That wasn't by choice, necessarily. Larian had troubles getting split-screen co-op to enactment smoothly connected Xbox Series S. The workplace adjacent enlisted the assistance of Microsoft's ain engineers to assistance get it each functioning.

With each of this said, determination has been a batch of treatment passim the existent console procreation implicit whether oregon not the Xbox Series S is worthy the hassles. Microsoft mandates that each Xbox Series X titles indispensable besides enactment connected Series S with afloat diagnostic parity, but it has led to immoderate games being released aboriginal connected the platform. It begs the question whether Project Helix, the adjacent Xbox console, volition person a cheaper and weaker variant – oregon if Microsoft volition spell all-in connected 1 SKU. Given however assertive Xbox's caller CEO Asha Sharma has been, it's hard to ideate the institution doing 2 consoles again, but we'll conscionable person to hold and see.

For now, No Rest for the Wicked volition merchandise connected PS5 connected an unspecified day successful October. The Xbox merchandise day is presently to beryllium confirmed.

Cade Onder is simply a freelancer for IGN's quality team. He covers each things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You tin find him connected Twitter @Cade_Onder.