With The Finals Season 3 hot on the horizon, it looks like Embark Studios is getting ready for a gnarly reveal at Summer Game Fest 2024.
The Finals received a massive update last week that was easily the biggest since the launch of Season 3. However, while this patch was released on both PS5 and PC, the unfortunate news is that Xbox players were left out.
They aren’t the first devs to have issues with Xbox this gen and they won’t be the last. Series S is doodoo
Imagine you started your games development 5 years ago thinking xbox was going to be relevant only to then release a game on a console that doesn't sell (esp. in Asia) where 75% of the users are S owners who only bought the thing for game pass. S owners have categorically got to be the lowest average spenders.
It's no wonder things keep getting delayed for xbox, why put any effort into a platform that's never going to return it's investment. We saw the sales chart with breakdowns today with xbox selling only accounting for 5% of the the number one selling game Hogwarts Legacy and sales with other games having similarly disastrous numbers.
I mean, xbox has games now because games take so long to develop that games today were started before people realized what a disaster xbox was going to be this gen. I think going forward with games started today you'll see a lot less games on xbox, especially now that they have positioned themselves as a rival to the other developers and publishers. It's not surprising we keep hearing that developers are skipping xbox even major publishers.
It's just a waste of resources to build for xbox especially when you have to have two separate builds with one console that is basically a last gen console with an SSD.
The Nintendo Switch 2 may be a turning point for handheld FPS games, and it needs Embark Studios' The Finals to get on its roster before COD does.
The switch 2 is likely to be possibly no more powerful then a ps4 maybe a ps4 pro. And, if it’s a portable you can pretty much say an Xbox one. I wish nintendo would just make a console to compete with Sony and MS just one more time.
I would love to see a super high fidelity next gen version of Mario, Zelda, kid Icarus, etc. but hey people happy with 13 year old tech condensed and redistributed for 6-10 years i guess it is what it is.
Forget trying to steal the Cash Out in The Finals, this new Game Boy style backpack is functional and Embark's even made a leaderboard.