Since 2018, Compulsion Games (developers of the title We Happy Few) became the property of Xbox Game Studios, along with others such as Arkane Studios, 343 Industries or The Coalition, for example. With the release of the new generation of consoles, there have been many discussions about whether or not they should continue to develop cross-gen games, as they weigh down the potential that could be achieved on the new consoles. Now, it is the turn of the We Happy Few development studio to speak, since Compulsion Games says that making a cross-gen game brings a lot of technical problems.
It was in an interview with the French media Xbox Squad where, among many other topics, the head of public relations Naila Hadjas states that releasing a game on two consoles with different powers (such as Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S) is the most complicated when a title is being developed.
Compulsion Games says that making a cross-gen game brings a lot of technical problems
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With this, what has been talked about for a long time is confirmed, and that is that developing intergenerational games is very complicated, since having to make sure that the title moves on two such different consoles is very, very tedious. We will see to what extent companies decide to continue developing for the past generation of Xbox One and PS4.