While it’s not the astir almighty console retired there, the smaller and much affordable Xbox Series S has been a large deed for Xbox. But reportedly, immoderate devs person felt the strain of getting bigger, much precocious games to enactment connected the console and successful response, Microsoft is freeing up immoderate representation to assistance amended the tiny console’s performance.

As spotted by The Verge, Microsoft is hoping to marque the Xbox Series S a spot much almighty by freeing up immoderate representation and letting developers entree that other representation if needed. In a video explaining this caller developer-focused update, Microsoft says that it is unlocking “hundreds of further megabytes of memory” and that this will, successful theory, springiness studios much power implicit however to usage the console’s constricted memory. Microsoft says this “can amended graphics show successful memory-constrained conditions.”

To beryllium clear, this isn’t similar Microsoft quadrupling the powerfulness of the Series S. Nor is this Microsoft flipping immoderate concealed power to fto the console commencement moving games astatine 8K and 240hz oregon thing chaotic similar that. Instead, the magnitude of representation dedicated to non-gaming functions successful the $300 Series S is being tweaked.

While the much almighty Xbox Series X console has 16GB of RAM the cheaper Xbox Series S has lone 10GB. But earlier this update, devs lone had entree to 8GB of that representation arsenic Microsoft reserved astir 2GB for the console’s OS. Now devs volition person a fewer 100 other megabytes of memory, which could assistance immoderate games tally a spot amended moving forward.

The Xbox Series S has ever been positioned by Microsoft arsenic a cheaper, less-powerful, but inactive susceptible next-gen console option. And it’s proven to beryllium a precise fashionable portion of hardware since releasing alongside the beefier Xbox Series X successful 2020. Hell, I already had an Xbox Series X and I ended up buying one. It’s go the main mode we play games successful our surviving room, cleanable for Fall Guys and Fortnite. But for much aggravated games it tin struggle, requiring cutting down connected framerate oregon resolution. This has reportedly led to immoderate issues and vexation from devs trying to get definite games moving connected the lesser machine.

A caller illustration of a crippled performing otherwise connected Series S is the Evil Dead game, which launched without a 60fps show mode connected the cheaper machine. Resident Evil Village besides limits the crippled to only 45fps astatine 1440p and 30fps if you crook ray tracing on.

Hopefully, a fewer other bits and bobs of representation tin assistance devs moving connected Xbox ports not consciousness arsenic hamstrung by the weaker Xbox Series S.