It was never going to be perfectly linear, I expected there to be some nips and tucks where the XSS is involved. But, outside of playing the game side by side with an XSX for the duration, the final results have been excellent so far. There will always be outliers in both directions.
The remarks we were talking about were this particular dev accusing the XSS of being responsible for the XSX/PS5 running at 30fps, and that realistically isn't possible. Regardless of what bottleneck they hit in XSS that caused them to limit or "hold-back" the game design, the bigger systems would be more capable in all areas. If the XSS was holding back things it would make things easier, not harder for the big boys. The reality is that the XSX/PS5 look to be somewhat maxed out in the given games that have been released on them, diminishing the idea that they have been hamstrung by a weaker box (they are often below 4k or have some fps blips etc.). It's flawed logic to look at a game running at 1440p on XSX/PS5 and think that those consoles could have done more if the XSS wasn't in the picture, at what resolution, 1080p.
Not to say that new tricks won't come along and lead to games getting increasingly better looking as time goes on.
