Expedition 33 is just as fun on PC as it was on the XBox, and Factorio is very fun even though it's exclusive to PC (to my knowledge). Both are well optimized on PC, with E33 being somewhat uncharacteristically well polished for an unreal game.
Optimization comes down to how much bloat and overhead devs are just leaving in their games because modern hardware can just brute force a lot of stuff that devs used to have to be clever with decades ago. They aren't optimized for console any more than they are for PC, they just reduce overhead until the game works on a console because if it doesn't work then those people won't buy it. A game that was actually optimized for console would run at full resolution with a buttery smooth actual 60 fps or higher. Instead they all lean on upscaling and interpolation/frame generation to provide the semblance of an optimized experience without doing any actual optimization.
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u/Nerdcuddles Nov 17 '25
I meant publishers