Final month, Battlefield 6’s open beta on PC and consoles rapidly turned one of many most-played video games of 2025. However like several fashionable recreation hitting Xbox in 2025, BF6 is launching on each the Collection X and the weaker Collection S. And in keeping 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 group struggled whereas attempting to get such a giant and complex recreation to run effectively on Xbox Collection S. We’ve heard tales that the Collection S may cause devs complications. And regardless of Frostbite, BF6‘s engine, being very “scalable,” the Collection S was nonetheless confirmed a tough beast to overcome.
“I’ll say that the largest 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 Collection 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 a number of our ranges had been crashing on Xbox Collection S.”
Consequently, the group targeted on “optimizing” reminiscence utilization in Battlefield 6. And these enhancements weren’t simply felt on Collection S. Based on Buhl, this course of made the “entire recreation higher and extra steady.” Nonetheless, the devs additionally labored on “particular optimizations” for Xbox Collection 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 operating all our ranges via it, and had been in a position to see the place the issues had been, after a month or two, we had type of resolved all of our reminiscence points on Collection S.”
Buhl says Battlefield 6 is now “tremendous stable” and “performant” on Xbox Collection S and can run at a “easy 60 frames per second.” And footage of the sport’s open beta operating on Collection S appears to again that up.
EA Received’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 needed to ask if, theoretically, the sport may run on a Change 2. The studio is even implementing gyro controls on PS5 and PS5 Professional to let gamers flick round rapidly or reload with the straightforward waggle of the gamepad.
Nonetheless, after I requested if it might be potential for Battlefield 6 and Frostbite to run on a Change 2 based mostly on the specs, an EA rep stepped in and lower off Buhl proper as he started to say one thing.
“Sorry, I’ve to step in right here,” stated the EA rep. “We will’t discuss something past, type of, like, the consoles that Battlefield’s coming to, which is Xbox Collection X/S and PS5, and PS5 Professional.”
In a while, when the group 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, no less than I can verify the devs engaged on Battlefield 6 suppose 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 gadgets, and a few gamers are gaming on the getting older and weaker Xbox Collection S. So I’m pleased to listen to that the devs behind the sport labored so onerous on optimizing it and ensuring all platforms get a terrific model of Battlefield 6. And hey, perhaps Change 2 house owners will get their very own stable model of BF6 sooner or later?
