The Outer Worlds Dev Putting 'Major Focus' On Fixing Performance Issues In Xbox Remaster

Shame. I really loved the game and thought of picking this up. Let's see what they come up with after the updates.

Its about time there was an industry wide standard to release states. far too many games on all platforms are released buggy, requiring several patches to put it in a day 1 state.

Isn't the time to put "major focus on performance issues across platforms".....before you ship the product?

@Widey85 Technically I think most companies in Obsidian/MS's position would have sued them over the reputational damage. This is seriously damaging to Obsidian/MS. The only reason they're not is they can't afford to look like a legal bad guy right now due to the ABK issue.

But I'd say Private Division is operating exactly as the parent company operates. I mean RDR2 still does not have properly functioning HDR. The WWE games are a running joke..... I think it's a Zelnick/Take Two proplem from the top really. No wonder he's against subscriptions, their games are either lifetime-play games or games that you don't play once you find out it's broken and would get no revenue.

This is the rare case where not upgrading actually gives you the superior version.

The Outer Worlds dev putting major focus on fixing performance issues in Xbox Remaster

Why run a headline like that when you know full well this is a Private Division s**t show 🤔. Stop dragging Obsidian's name through the proverbial mud, PX!....sometimes I have the impression you guys are working at PushSquare and then freelance for PureXbox 😅. Terrible...

@grumpypotato

They do own the IP but Private Division own the publishing rights of the first game, hence why Obsidian are not involved (to my knowledge) in this so called Remaster.

@Widey85 I’ll play devil’s advocate here. Zelnick might me a “money” guy and many insults, and this outer worlds fiasco may hurt him a little, but I believe that his strategies and “leadership” work. To see that a game released 10 years ago on 7th gen hardware is still on the top lists every week is nothing short of impressive. What is more impressive (or unfortunate), is that there are still millions of people dunking out money on GTA V/Online to this day (my best friend still plays GTA Online), proving that the consumers don’t want another GTA game yet, and Zelnick knows that…

But let’s get on to other companies that are doing the same, but we’re ironically giving them a pass. Nintendo is still milking Mario Kart 8 after 10 years and it’s still topping the charts. MS with Minecraft and it’s billions of versions. Or more recently, Capcom with Resident Evil 4, a game launched in 2004 on GameCube. And how to forget Bethesda with Skyrim on its 3rd or 4th remaster now?

If the game eternally sells, then why bother with making a sequel?

@Savage_Joe I think that's the point of him being a "money" guy. Though I don't think Zelnick had any vision or foresight that made GTAV such an undying permahit. I think as with most GaaS successes it just "happened" and nobody knows how or can build a formula to make it happen, which is why they don't try. Why replace the golden goose with what will probably be a brass monkey? They don't move on because they don't actually know how to duplicate it so they'll milk it until they can't.

Other companies doing the same.....Yeah MK8 is sad...but....Nintendo's also released dozens of other games since then, some also mega hits, some not but lots of games in addition. MS has released.....uhm.....err......well they TRIED, they really did! Ok I mean they spent a few hundred billion preparing for trying! lol.

All of these companies though sell their old cash cow forever and use it to fund other project initiatives. TT has moved on to basically selling that, and only that, plus the annual 2 sports titles and then farmed out this C-grade ports and remasters to PD. And that's literally all they do (except RDR2 which arguably was never completed and killed off unnecessarily.)