
With the advent of new consoles, us gaming enthusiasts of the world often quickly forget older technology (before inevitably getting nostalgic about it years down the line). The base Xbox One is definitely in the 'forgotten' territory of its life right now — for us at least — but sometimes we're reminded that new games are still coming out for it, and developers still have to try and optimize for the console.
Enter: Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. This month's first Game Pass hit is a cross generation game, and that is producing some interesting results across the board. While we've already taken a look at the game on current-gen systems here at PX HQ, the team over at Digital Foundry has analysed all versions - including that old Xbox One edition of the game.

Let's just say the visuals leave something to be desired on the console. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty on Xbox One runs at 648p by DF's testing, so we're looking at a sub-720p resolution here. The texture work is very low-res too, and generally speaking, it's hard to make out much detail at all. We'll drop the timestamp of this specific discussion down below.
Thankfully, the game's performance fares a lot better, with a pretty solid 30FPS showing on Xbox One. There's no high-performance mode of course, but the frame rate could have been a lot worse - and probably would have been if Team Ninja pushed the visuals any more.
In all honesty, we don't really know what we expected to see here, but every now and then you're reminded of how far we've come with Xbox Series X|S; Series X in particular. 60 frames per second sure is sweet, huh?
Are you at all surprised by these visuals? Leave your thoughts on their findings down below.
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I hadn't noticed! I have both the X and S and the S performs well enough for me. I'm getting pretty sick of the hate on the S model as if the Pony Bois crap weren't enough!
@Manute This is Xbox ONE S btw, not Series S. Just making sure you're not mixing them up! (Series S looks pretty good here)
@BrilliantBill Yeah i love my Series S but there's a reason its only used for 1st party stuff or games i can't get elsewhere. I fear for the future with 3rd party stuff as it seems its already starting to be pushed. Hopefully Starfield looks and runs well on it.
I forgot Xbox one was still a thing...
P.s the game is great...doesn't feel remotely as hard as dark souls etc to me currently ..I have done the first 5 bosses pretty easy....I am waiting to hit a point though where I will be like ffs this is why the game is considered hard lol
I read Xbox One S as Series S lmao
That’s Switch levels of resolution, awful.
I am actually surprised to hear the game runs on last gen hardware.
At least it runs well, there's been quite a few bad Xbox One ports over the past year
Put the game on the series s on a D32 BVM CRT & it'd look lovely, even at that absurdly low sub-720p resolution.
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