Time2split!

One of the more amusing ironies is that Katsuhiro Harada never managed to deliver an Xbox One X enhancement for Tekken 7. Tekken 7 is still rendered at a native 720p resolution on the Xbox One X (and on the Xbox Series X). I don't believe that was because he had anything against Xbox. If anything, it highlighted the limitations of the team's engineering priorities and technical capabilities at the time. This is also why I find it hard to take some of the complaints about the Xbox Series S at face value. It's always fascinating how certain developers can write off hardware as the problem before asking whether their own code might deserve a little attention first. In many cases, the issue isn't that the hardware is too weak. The issue is that optimization is hard. Blaming the console is easy; squeezing every ounce of performance out of it is the part that separates great engineers from average ones. Before declaring that a platform is holding the industry back, some developers might want to demonstrate that they've fully mastered the hardware already sitting in front of them. Otherwise, it can sound less like a technical assessment and more like an excuse.