Jedi: Survivor's New Port Hits The Charts, Despite The Xbox One Being 11 Years Old

Just for curiosity's sake, how does this version runs on Series S or X?

I mean yeah, there are still more gamers on last "gen" consoles than on current gen (especially if you include the switch which is weaker than last gen). As has been said the biggest games that most people play (Fortnite, GTA V, COD, Sports games) are still launching cross gen and/or have regular updates on all platforms. So the vast majority haven't upgraded yet and as such publishers are still going to follow the market. Like these people are trying to sell their games to the most amount of people. That's all. People also discount the effect of the Nintendo Switch and probably even the switch 2 if rumors of its tech capabilities are true. As a platform it has the most users of any single console but the current model is literally weaker than an Xbox One and it's successor is expected to be in line with a steam deck which is about as strong as a PS4. Publishers and devs want their games on the switch because that's a ton of potential sales, and if they've managed to port to the switch... why not the Xbox One and PS4 as well? That's over 100m potential sales just lying in the corner. That's literally more potential sales than they could get targeting this gen alone lying in the corner.

This also again begs the question of why Microsoft should care about current gen sales not being super high. Some of it is the console market not hugely growing, but a lot of it is people not having a reason to upgrade. And what does Xbox care? I mean they literally still sell their consoles at a loss (they're the only console maker that still does), so we should be overly concerned about Xbox not managing to sell the same gamers a new console at a loss so they could buy the same games they would have on their old console? Like these people weren't ever going to buy and play Baldur's Gate 3. On the other hand Microsoft has reported that they've seen more completely new users and these people are mostly buying the series S (so I think the strategy of Series X for upgrades and Series S for new users has worked to a extent, though they definitely could push the marketing for that). This combined with the sticky users still on last gen actively playing and buying and spending money on Microtransactions is what's led them to be able to say they have more console users than ever. I imagine it's the same for Sony (but don't follow their news; that said their pricing scheme has been like the opposite of indicative of seeing, wanting, or even trying to target new users).

With good reason the expectation is that GTA VI is what finally makes people want to start to upgrade. In business sense it'll bring the general audience onboard (though, there will be laggards for the longest). However, even then not everyone is buying GTA VI at launch. I really don't think we'll start to see most users on current gen until 2026 at minimum. Which I'm starting to wonder if Xbox predicts as well with the rumors of a new console "generation" for their quarter of a century anniversary. That'll be interesting if so.

Overall lameduck doesn't even begin to describe this "generation". For the most part, I think generations are dead and honestly I say good riddance. Hardware upgrades will always be here. But the idea of generations just seemed to be one to justify why compatibility is wildly inconsistent and gaming libraries couldn't be transfered over entirely from one model to its successor.

And this is why they keep supporting last gen platforms.