Yeah, it's complete bullshit and its down to poor design. Consider games like Tomb Raider 2013 and Arkham City. I play these on a 2.5 year old MacBook Pro with the discrete GPU. No lagging, and they look great. And these are games where movement is way more dynamic and complex than Rev 60, which really is more comparable to a rail shooter than an open environment. And the actual visible detail doesn't compare. The only plausible explanation is that Rev 60 is poorly optimised. And this is a game that's been in development since at least 2012. In this time she never play tested or wondered why it was so resource hungry?
That she decided this would be her debut game speaks to the Wu mentality of jumping straight in and expecting to compete at a high level. We saw the same thing with her "animation studio", where her parents dropped $200,000 on a completely unproven person. Same with Rev 60. She could instead have taken some time to learn the tools and maybe develop some smaller scale games. No, she's the kind of person who decides to take up running and will immediately enrol herself in the olympics. Fortunately for Wu, she's always had people willing to drop money in to her flights of fancy. This won't last forever, and I think Rev 60 could well be her swan song. There's hope. If she realises that incremental development is the way to go, then she might decide to take some time actually develop her abilities before asking for money.
Either way, he's boned.
R60 does get released, runs like such a flaming turd even the shills will struggle to not complain when the game runs like dogshit on anything less than a Cray supercomputer, and every reputable game reviewer worth their salt will shit down R60's neck, Steam will be a wasteland of "fuck this POS" (even if Wu gets a bunch of shill accounts to try propping it up, the sales numbers will blow that lie out of water quick), and any hope of producing another game goes down the toilet. Worse, he's lashed everything his game dev cred is based on to the mast of this piece of crap, and when it capsizes, there is no fucking way anyone with half a brain will ever trust him to make anything else.
From what I understand, even the iOS original was panned pretty damned hard by everyone who wasn't a shill, so this bombing after all the improvements would be ten times worse.
If he never releases it, sooner or later it will hit the Duke Nukem Forever plateau even for the shills and when it finally releases it (if ever), it will suck so bad and be so underwhelming he's still screwed, as his dragging ass and pisspoor product to show for it will ruin him anyway.