Here’s the raw link from my browser, in case the image upload doesn’t work. Warhammer 40000: Darktide - Xbox Series X : Target
Interesting notes:
Fatshark has picked literally the last possible day in the year, likely so they can technically hit some 2023 release promise.
The box SPECIFICALLY SAYS SERIES X. It appears as if FS has dropped the Series S from what they think they can launch this on.
Has anybody else seen this yet? Can anybody offer any information?
This isn’t a verified or agreed upon console release date. Likely some kind of placeholder.
It’s also not permitted to release only for Series X consoles. Any game coming to the current gen Microsoft consoles must be released on both X and S variants. There’s no exception to this rule.
Thank you for the prompt response! Sorry for posting this, there’s just been so little information about the console release that this placeholder item on Target is the most I’ve seen or heard about it since the delay was announced.
There have been instances before, where a game was delayed or took so long to release, it went over the placeholder date.
I remember a few “scandals” around that, where people thought the placeholder date was the real date and ended up being sorely disappointed in the mid 2010’s.
Surprised to see companies like Target being so learn resistant. They should know better and slap a “tba” for “to be announced” on there. I guess, coding that one extra field into their software is too much effort.
So yeah, no known release date and no guesstimate either. This is just made up by the seller.
I suppose the biggest takeaway here is that retailers also haven’t been supplied with a release date.
They really, really arent sure, huh.
yeah when games become vaporware but retailers still have them listed for sale this happens. my advance wars reboot I waited like 2 years for did this too, but that was at least delayed for a spurious political reason and not incompetence.
Well shoot, I guess all that gamepass money is making up for trying to get your game to run on a raspberry pi… err, I mean Series S. It just stinks because I have NEVER talked with a console gamer that has ever heard of VT or DT for that matter, and only a select few PC gamers have even heard of DT. Yet that seems where all the focus is ATM, I would appreciate a little bit of transparency in the form of " Hey, we are under contract to get this game running on a 2013 laptop, until we get that working somehow ya’ll are SOL"
That puts things in perspective. Is the Xbox Series S that inferior in horse power?
“Never heard of a console gamer who knows about VT” = “untapped market”, and I think that’s their hope. VT2 on console is a fundamentally different game because they had to limit horde sizes and tweak health and damage numbers to compensate, so it never really took off there. Crossplay has the serious potential to buoy their console numbers, though, because if they can get this game running well, the population numbers will be there.
Series S is honestly a huge Microsoft blunder. They’re gonna be eating that humble pie for the next half a decade, to be honest, because all of their games are going to be underpowered because of it.
Microsoft messing up. What else is new, honestly?
It’s an issue of confidence (or lack thereof).
“Oh will people really buy the more expensive model? I guess not. Let’s throw out an underpowered console so we don’t have to explain why modern day hardware is more expensive.” -Microsoft
Yep. The Series S has less graphical horsepower under the hood than the Xbox One X, which came out in 2017. The Series S has a better CPU and a SDD, which the One X does not, but it has a weaker GPU.
The S was a mistake, and I think it’s one that Xbox is paying for. We’re seeing it happen now, the Xbox Series X (which is not the Xbox One X, I don’t know how they screwed up the naming twice) should be easily capable of handling Darktide.
I will never understand what’s so hard about counting forward like a normal Human being.
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
If Sony can do it, why can’t you Microsoft?
Honestly I think that Microsoft leadership - with the exception of Phil Spencer and Matt Booty - doesn’t know what they are doing with the Xbox. The Series S was, I think, an attempt to just get something more powerful than the outdated-at-2013-launch original Xbox One into the hands of consumers, because functionally the PS5’s Series S is just the PS4, which everyone already has. Playstation did the previous generation so well that they’re in a position where everyone already has the economy option in their homes. Xbox sold so poorly and was mismanaged so badly last generation by Xbox’s previous leadership that nobody had a reasonable system ready to go at the launch of this new console generation.
Case in point: Street Fighter 6 is on PC, current gen Xbox, current gen Playstation, and last gen Playstation. Our original launch-era PS4 can handle current gen games.
But launching the Series S with an underpowered graphics card for the sake of the low price was a screw-up, because now devs need to make their games fit on it and I think that’s part of what is gonna screw up Darktide.
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