Battlefield 6 Devs Struggled To Get It Running On Xbox Series S

Final month, Battlefield 6’s open beta on PC and consoles shortly turned one of many most-played video games of 2025. However like all trendy recreation hitting Xbox in 2025, BF6 is launching on each the Sequence X and the weaker Sequence S. And in line with the devs behind the sport, getting BF6 to run on the much less highly effective console was a “problem.”

Earlier this week, Kotaku sat down with two Battlefield 6 devs to debate the sport’s console ports, and I requested if the staff struggled whereas attempting to get such a giant and sophisticated recreation to run properly on Xbox Sequence S. We’ve heard stories that the Series S can cause devs headaches. And regardless of Frostbite, BF6‘s engine, being very “scalable,” the Sequence S was nonetheless confirmed a tough beast to beat.

“I’ll say that the most important factor we did that was a problem for us was [dealing with the console’s limited] reminiscence,” defined Christian Buhl, technical director on Battlefield 6. “Xbox Sequence S does have much less reminiscence than even our mid-spec PC. And so there was a degree…Oh, I wish to say, like, 6 to 12 months in the past the place we type of realized that numerous our ranges had been crashing on Xbox Sequence S.”

Because of this, the staff targeted on “optimizing” reminiscence utilization in Battlefield 6. And these enhancements weren’t simply felt on Sequence S. In response to Buhl, this course of made the “complete recreation higher and extra secure.” Nevertheless, the devs additionally labored on “particular optimizations” for Xbox Sequence S, too.

“We had been doing a lot testing…we had been gathering all this knowledge,” defined Buhl. “As soon as we type of began working all our ranges by means of it, and had been capable of see the place the issues had been, after a month or two, we had type of resolved all of our reminiscence points on Sequence S.”

Buhl says Battlefield 6 is now “tremendous stable” and “performant” on Xbox Sequence S and can run at a “clean 60 frames per second.” And footage of the game’s open beta running on Series S appears to again that up. 

EA Gained’t Discuss About Battlefield 6 On Change 2

In fact, with Frostbite being so scalable and the studio working onerous to make BF6 tremendous optimized, I wished to ask if, theoretically, the sport might run on a Change 2. The studio is even implementing gyro controls on PS5 and PS5 Pro to let gamers flick round shortly or reload with the easy waggle of the gamepad.

Nevertheless, after I requested if it will be potential for Battlefield 6 and Frostbite to run on a Change 2 based mostly on the specs, an EA rep stepped in and minimize off Buhl proper as he started to say one thing.

“Sorry, I’ve to step in right here,” mentioned the EA rep. “We are able to’t discuss something past, kind of, like, the consoles that Battlefield’s coming to, which is Xbox Sequence X/S and PS5, and PS5 Professional.” 

Afterward, when the staff was speaking about gyro controls, I introduced up how the Change 2 has glorious gyro sensors in its Pleasure-Con.

“Precisely, yeah,” was the response. So, not less than I can affirm the devs engaged on Battlefield 6 assume the Change 2 has nice gyro controls. Past that, nothing.

I’m very excited to play Battlefield 6 as soon as it launches on October 10 on my PS5 Professional and high-end gaming PC. However not everybody has entry to these units, and a few gamers are gaming on the growing older and weaker Xbox Sequence S. So I’m completely happy to listen to that the devs behind the sport labored so onerous on optimizing it and ensuring all platforms get an awesome model of Battlefield 6. And hey, perhaps Change 2 homeowners will get their very own stable model of BF6 sooner or later?