The Finals devs are "super sorry for lengthy delay" as fans blame Microsoft

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.

[jznrpg]

They aren’t the first devs to have issues with Xbox this gen and they won’t be the last. Series S is doodoo

[TheNamelessOne]

There is nothing in the article that says anything about the Series S being the problem. If the base game runs just fine on the Series S, there's no reason to believe this patch somehow would tank the game's performance.

[OtterX]

While it's doable, it still takes more effort to get a game running on lower specs, and running well. It still causes a holdup in the process.

[Einhander1972]

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.

[neutralgamer1992]

It's really frustrating that XSS have held this generation back big time. The parity clause is just nonsense but vast majority of Xbox fanbase is series s so ms really can't bcak out

[XiNatsuDragnel]

It's unfortunate that xbox is at the source of these delays

[gold_drake]

it probably doesnt help that they essentially have to consider the S for it too.

[S2Killinit]

Well it makes sense because there aren't too many of them.

[TwoPicklesGood]

Lol so many haters. Blame the devs not MS. Is their fault plain and simple no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.

[shinoff2183]

Come on pickles. Even Ms 1st party studios have trouble with the s.

[boing1]

"Hey, here is the potato. Run The Finals on it."
- MS.