u/Iggy_Slayer

This is the project that seemed to be a multi year ongoing project that was rumored to cost upwards of $800m (probably a lifetime estimate not launch).

edit: In case anyone asks all the revival games like crazy taxi and JSR are still alive and listed as TBD on the release slate.

>This time Rebirth includes open world areas like the Grasslands region. How did you overcome the challenge of making such complex regions run at 30fps, bearing in mind Switch 2's power limits?

>In Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the scale of the world is vastly different from that of Intergrade, so we couldn't approach it in the same way. While with Intergrade we were able to achieve 30fps through adjustments to post-processing effects and fog, in Rebirth, the open-world environment led to a significantly higher number of rendered meshes compared to Intergrade, making it impossible to apply that same method directly.

>For the Switch 2 version, the background models themselves have been optimised specifically for the hardware. This wasn't just a simple reduction; it includes redesigning the LOD stages and reworking material expressions with high rendering costs from the ground up. Across entire scenes, we also adjusted the scale at which background LODs switch, ensuring that system load doesn't spike suddenly even as the draw distance increases. In addition, we focused on reducing conditions where rendering load tends to concentrate, such as implementing culling to suppress rendering outside the visible range and reorganising the overall rendering order of the environment.

Does Switch 2's docked play add any extra visual features, over playing it as a portable?

>For the Switch 2 version, our top priority was ensuring that there is no difference in the gameplay experience between docked and handheld modes. For this reason, we haven't included any additional visual elements in either mode; the only design difference is in how resolution is handled.

>Our aim is to create a situation where players can choose whichever mode they like based purely on preference, as the content, controls, and gameplay mechanics remain unchanged regardless of the mode. Ensuring that the experience remains seamless across modes is a policy we have consistently upheld throughout the development of the Switch 2 versions.

More in the article.

>“We need to evolve how we work and how we are organized across our platform,” Sharma wrote in a memo viewed by CNBC. “Right now, it is too hard to ship impact quickly. We spend too much time inward instead of with the community, and we lack the depth we need in some of the fundamentals.”

>Last week, Microsoft reported its fourth gaming revenue decline in the past six quarters. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, said the company is trying to win back fans of Xbox, the Bing search engine and other consumer assets.

>Four of those leaders are coming from the CoreAI group, overlapping with Sharma.

>Jared Palmer, who has been CoreAI vice president of product and a senior vice president of Microsoft’s GitHub subsidiary, will join Xbox as a member of technical staff to work on product, engineering, developer tools and infrastructure. He will also pay attention to matters of “taste,” Sharma wrote. Palmer came to Microsoft in October after a stint as vice president of artificial intelligence app hosting service Vercel, which bought his startup Turborepo in 2021.

>Tim Allen, a CoreAI vice president of design and GitHub’s senior vice president of design and research, will also go to Xbox and will lead design. Allen arrived at Microsoft in November after spending almost four years as head of design and research at Instacart.

>Jonathan McKay, a former Meta director and head of growth for ChatGPT at OpenAI, will be Xbox’s head of growth after holding that title in the CoreAI group.

>Evan Chaki, a general manager in CoreAI, will run a team of forward-deployed engineers that will look to simplify development and end repetitive work.

>David Schloss, Instacart’s senior director of product and growth, will take charge of Xbox’s subscription and cloud business.

>Kevin Gammill, a corporate vice president working on Xbox user experience, game development and publishing platforms, will leave his post. Roanne Sones, a corporate vice president for Xbox devices and ecosystem, will take a leave of absence after this summer and will later be an Xbox advisor. Sones and Gammill have each spent 24 years at Microsoft.

Looks like the AI takeover of Xbox is continuing.

>Oblivion was an incredibly popular game back in the day, but the recent Bethesda remake unfortunately launched with a host of technical issues. A year after launch, have those problems been fixed or at least improved? We checked, and the results ain't pretty.

>As you may have noticed, the game hasn't been patched on PC since its 1.2 update arrived in July 2025 - a very short post-launch support window, given that the game was only released in late April the same year. Unfortunately, that abandonment means that the game remains in a state that could be described as anywhere from "annoying" to "practically unplayable", depending on your appetite for persistent hitches and stutters, crashing and other profound technical woes.

>It's hard to look beyond the initial design phase when it comes to apportioning blame, which sandwiched the original game's architecture within an Unreal Engine 5 front-end. Both of these elements are notoriously CPU and GPU heavy, so the combination presents with extremely poor frame-time stability that gets worse the longer you play. Still, the lack of updates suggest that Bethesda didn't feel like meaningful improvements were possible, and not even making the attempt feels even worse.

It still has that memory leak issue too where the longer you play the more your performance degrades. You can see an example of it in the article version of this.