Crimson Desert Studio Seemngly Won’t Showcase Xbox Series X/S Gameplay Before Launch

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The PlayStation 5 had two gameplay videos released before it launched, plus additional professional analysis. It’s surprising that Crimson Desert on Xbox hasn’t received similar attention, but it hasn’t.

When IGN inquired about the absence of Xbox Series X/S gameplay footage, Pearl Abyss pointed to the published console specs and offered review codes to those who requested them. This means some players might still get a glimpse of the game before its official release through reviewers, but don’t count on seeing gameplay directly from the developers themselves.

The Xbox Series X offers similar technical capabilities to the standard PlayStation 5, with options to prioritize performance, visual quality, or a balance of both. Players can enjoy smooth gameplay at 1080p resolution with a frame rate of 60 frames per second (and even higher with Variable Refresh Rate), or experience upscaled 4K visuals at 30 frames per second, complete with high-quality ray tracing effects.

Both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 offer a middle-ground setting, and both utilize AMD’s FSR 3 technology to upscale games to 4K resolution. The Xbox Series S is the exception, and not in a good way. It only has two graphics modes: Performance, which runs at 720p resolution and 40 frames per second, and Quality, at 1080p and 30 frames per second. Neither of these modes use upscaling, and ray tracing is turned off.

I’m so excited! Crimson Desert is coming out on March 19th, which means we won’t have to wait much longer to actually play it on pretty much any platform we want!

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2026-03-18 22:41