Last month, Atomic Heart developer Mundfish responded on Twitter to reveal that its upcoming FPS would run at a dynamic 4K / 60FPS on Xbox Series X and PS5. At the time, the team didn't tell us how Xbox Series S would handle things, but a new dev interview has now dropped all the juicy details.
To get to the point; Atomic Heart is aiming for "Full HD and 60FPS" on Xbox Series S consoles. That's 1080p / 60FPS, which sounds like a reasonable target for maintaining a smooth frame rate on Series S.
Elsewhere, the interview touches on a few other details — like the game's comparisons to BioShock and DOOM — but the other real noteworthy point here is that ray tracing is missing at launch. The team says that the console version of Atomic Heart won't contain RT "for now", and no future plans for the feature were spoken of.
At present, just the one graphical mode is available in Atomic Heart, then, but at least it's aiming for 60FPS on all current-gen machines. The team didn't talk about the Xbox One version here, but it's safe to expect 30FPS performance on last-gen Xbox consoles.
Are you happy with these Xbox Series S targets? Let us know in the comments below!
[source wccftech.com]
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Wait, so you're saying the Series S can run games well so long as the developer actually cares enough to make it run them well? Who knew!?
Still don’t like the split console series x and s.
Should have gone a disc less series x
Less for developers to do and no holding back the series x, especially with in house AAA games.
Just my humble opinion.
@Dezzy70 then less would have picked it up as a 2nd console.
200 for a console is a smart move. they more likely to pick up families with youngsters than sony.
id love to see the split between X/S, also MS should include 6mnth free GP with every console.
@Dezzy70 I totally agree!!!!
@Dezzy70 this game is releasing on the Xbox One & PS4. so again the Series S is holding nothing back 😆😆😆.
@Dezzy70 Around launch I had those sorts of feelings too, but how this gen has unfolded so far has made MS's Series S move look even smarter in retrospect, imo.
Stock shortages, inflation & a lengthy cross-gen period has allowed Series S to slot into the market really nicely. Loads of people wouldn't have been able to move to next-gen without it!
It's turning out to be a great console for many.
@cragis0001
I did say in house AAA exclusives really.
@stvevan
Yes they should a promotion with free GP.
Which then will get the general public more aware of GP when they pick a console up
Great idea.
@stvevan
With the One X, I had 1 month GP and that was a great move imo. Six months are too much since there is the 1$ offer for the newcomers.
FPS on Series S will determine if I buy any first party games. Fable and Starfield should both hit 60 FPS at 1080p easily on a Series S.
@Dezzy70 I don't think so as Microsoft titles so far specially designed for the Series consoles that I've played like Flight Simulator looked & ran well on the Series S. To me though my fear that the Series S would be left behind evaporated when I played Deathloop. But then it depends on what your reasons are for believing that the S is holding back the X I guess.
@Moonglow that cant be true. MS has plans to drop their 1st party games and CoD (very least plans made for cod). they got to have the infrastructure.
@homme_parametre the 6month could replace the $1. lets face it many are stacing GP at cheap prices so its no loss to include it.
Not bad for a console that costs less that the ram in my PC .
Series S is such good value. The S in not holding anything back , if any thing the XSX and PS5 are holding game tech back as they can't do 4k@60 native with good enough settings. Eveyone slates Nvidia for its GPU prices but there the ones pushing the tech in gaming.
The Xbox Series S is an amazing purchase, as long as you grab GamePass as well. For myself, the only real downsides to it are the storage limit (Microsoft really should look into offering cheaper storage expansion) and the lack of gyro functionality in the controller (which costs about the same as PS5 and even PS4 controllers that have it). As long as you don’t mind the lower resolutions and (sometimes) lower framerates, the Series S is a great entry point into current-gen console gaming.
I can't help but feel this game is vaporware. Something about is just off. I hope not as it looks like something I would really enjoy
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