{"id":50821,"date":"2026-11-11T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/former-tekken-director-wishes-hardware-like-xbox-series-s-wouldnt-be-released\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:34:47","slug":"former-tekken-director-wishes-hardware-like-xbox-series-s-wouldnt-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/former-tekken-director-wishes-hardware-like-xbox-series-s-wouldnt-be-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tekken Director Wishes \u201cHardware Like Xbox Series S Wouldn\u2019t Be Released\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/katsuhiro-harada.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former <em>Tekken<\/em> director Katsuhiro Harada has criticized the Xbox Series S. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invenglobal.com\/articles\/28387\/6-developers-behind-global-hits-share-console-game-development-insights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inven Global<\/a>, Harada was talking during a panel at the Console Game Developers Conference 2026 in South Korea alongside a number of other industry professionals, including former Sony president Shuhei Yoshida as the moderator, and Shift Up CTO DongKi Lee, Too Kyo Games CEO Kazutaka Kodaka, CD Projekt RED associate game director Pawe\u0142 Sasko, and Ludeon Studios CEO Tynan Sylvester as fellow panelists.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the subject of developing games for consoles, Harada said that he wished that \u201chardware like Xbox Series S wouldn\u2019t be released.\u201d Noting that a senior Xbox official was also in attendance, Harada then asked Sasko whether he was \u201cupset inside\u201d due to the weaker console. After a laugh, Sasko responded by saying, \u201cIt constantly throws challenges at us and forces us to optimize our code very cleanly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harada went on to criticize the console, asking Sasko if he \u201cjust used a very polite and elegant way to say \u2018Xbox Series S sucks,\u2019 right?\u201d Among his biggest complaints about the console is the fact that it is similar to the Xbox Series X,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/former-tekken-director-wishes-hardware-like-xbox-series-s-wouldnt-be-released\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada has criticized the Xbox Series S. According to Inven Global, Harada was talking during a panel at the Console Game Developers Conference 2026 in South Korea alongside a number of other industry professionals, including former Sony president Shuhei Yoshida as the moderator, and Shift Up CTO DongKi Lee, Too Kyo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,108,211],"class_list":["post-50821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-mixtv","tag-news","tag-xbox-series-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}