# Ex-Tekken director savages Xbox Series S in front of senior Xbox staff: ‘feels like having to do extra work for a slightly weaker child’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ex-tekken-director-savages-xbox-series-s-in-front-of-senior-xbox-staff-feels-like-having-to-do-extra-work-for-a-slightly-weaker-child/
- Published: 2026-11-11T17:17:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T18:50:59+00:00
- Original publisher: PC Gamer
- Original article: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/ex-tekken-director-savages-xbox-series-s-in-front-of-senior-xbox-staff-feels-like-having-to-do-extra-work-for-a-slightly-weaker-child/
- Topics: Entertainment, Gaming, TV

## Key points

- Harada criticised the Series S’s memory and performance limits.
- Sasko said optimising for it can benefit other platforms.
- He also cited the console’s affordable price and accessibility.

## Summary

Katsuhiro Harada, former Tekken director and CEO of SNK VS Studio, criticised the Xbox Series S at a developers’ conference in Seoul, with a senior Xbox official reportedly in attendance. He said the console’s limited memory and lower performance create extra work for developers, drawing agreement from CD Projekt Red’s Paweł Sasko.

Sasko said the need to optimise games for lower-spec hardware can improve performance across platforms, including PS5, high-end PCs and handhelds. He also noted the Series S’s lower price makes gaming more accessible. Harada joked that Microsoft might release a similarly constrained model in its next console generation; the article gives no indication that such a device is planned.

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