{"id":621679,"date":"2026-06-05T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621679\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:28:11","slug":"series-s-is-making-that-rough-no-rest-for-the-wicked-dev-shares-update-on-xbox-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621679\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Series S Is Making That Rough&#8217; &#8211; No Rest For The Wicked Dev Shares Update On Xbox Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"&#039;Series S Is Making That Rough&#039; - No Rest For The Wicked Dev Shares Update On Xbox Version\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/978f0e5dfad82\/series-s-is-making-that-rough-no-rest-for-the-wicked-dev-shares-update-on-xbox-version.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/series-s-is-making-that-rough-no-rest-for-the-wicked-dev-shares-update-on-xbox-version.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"'Series S Is Making That Rough' - No Rest For The Wicked Dev Shares Update On Xbox Version\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/06\/roundup-all-the-biggest-xbox-reveals-from-junes-state-of-play\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State of Play<\/a> event earlier this week, one of the notable absentees from an Xbox perspective was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2024\/04\/ori-devs-no-rest-for-the-wicked-re-confirmed-for-xbox-pc-early-access-starts-this-week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No Rest For The Wicked<\/a>, which is the new game from Moon Studios (known for the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/ori_the_collection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ori<\/a> titles).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the reason we&#8217;re not getting the 1.0 release of No Rest For The Wicked in October alongside PC and PS5 is the Xbox Series S. As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/no-rest-for-the-wicked-director-says-xbox-version-wont-release-alongside-ps5-because-series-s-is-making-that-rough\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VGC<\/a>, Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler recently responded to a fan on Discord who asked &#8220;why no Xbox?&#8221; with the following message:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Series S is making that rough. We&#8217;ll ship it after in a good way once it&#8217;s optimized like crazy for Switch 2 and Xbox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mahler had previously suggested (this time last year) that the game would likely skip Xbox for its 1.0 launch due to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/07\/no-rest-for-the-wicked-may-skip-xbox-for-the-time-being-due-to-current-market-conditions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">current market conditions<\/a>&#8220;. He stated at the time that it &#8220;costs a ton of resources to make a full console port&#8221;, and that &#8220;if we do something, we want to take the time to do it right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, he doesn&#8217;t feel that the Xbox Series S version of No Rest For The Wicked is in a good enough place to release this October, but it&#8217;s reassuring that he&#8217;s still committed to making it happen. At the end of the day, if Moon Studios needs more time to optimise for the Series S and Switch 2, we&#8217;re happy to wait for a polished product.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this? Let us know down in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766613369_65_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When we covered the State of Play event earlier this week, one of the notable absentees from an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,9929,86,56,54,55,183,695],"class_list":["post-621679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-no-rest-for-the-wicked","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-series-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}