Update to make things clear: I remember for months the belief was Series X hw was ahead. It was the general consensus. I find it hard to believe even in hindsight that Sony's final hw was ahead. But what was a fact was that PS5 devkits were more abundantly available. So thats where my biggest question comes from. Even if MSFT waited for more RDNA 2.0 features they were ahead in terms of their hw. But behind in delivering devkits.
MSFT showed their console first, had their specs out by Jan 2020, and even showed a full tear down of the Console(APU, Power supply, etc) in March 2020. I understand Phil Spencer said they had to wait longer for some chips from AMD but they were still ahead in terms of the hardware at least compared to the PS5 which even by March were still optimizing the processor clock profiles.
I read this comment from this Verge article
So my question is how come the Series X devkits came out late despite the final hardware being almost complete by March?
MSFT showed their console first, had their specs out by Jan 2020, and even showed a full tear down of the Console(APU, Power supply, etc) in March 2020. I understand Phil Spencer said they had to wait longer for some chips from AMD but they were still ahead in terms of the hardware at least compared to the PS5 which even by March were still optimizing the processor clock profiles.
I read this comment from this Verge article
Our team is working on a smaller Xbox game coming to both XB1 and Series S/X and we absolutely were not able to get new devkits to test on, so it's totally legit. We literally had to get it up and running on Series X when we bought a retail unit (runs amazing, so that's great.) The Series devkits have definitely been rolled out slowly/late.
Depends how you look at it imo. For us and most devs, we're developing on XB1 and it just works on the Series consoles with zero effort. So in a way, it's very much ready. If you are looking to optimize for the new consoles, obviously the delay didnt help, but I wouldn't call it rushed.
So my question is how come the Series X devkits came out late despite the final hardware being almost complete by March?
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