Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***

Which will you buy?

  • Series X

    Votes: 537 59.1%

  • Series S

    Votes: 108 11.9%

  • Not interested

    Votes: 239 26.3%

  • Both

    Votes: 25 2.8%
  • Total voters
    909
So I would appreciate some advice. I think I'm being a clown, but lets gloss over that.

We've got an X Box series X in the lounge. Its got Game Pass Ultimate. It has 4 Profiles on it, Mine and my Wifes, and then our two Childrens. The Gamepass is on my account. I also use that gamepass account on my PC.

We've bought an additional X Box (series S) for the family room as the kids have been enjoying doing games together like Sea of Thieves.

Is there some sort of family tier I can upgrade my Game Pass to, and if not, what is the best way to make it so we can put games on the other console and allow the accounts to use them. I tried doing it last night but seemed to fall into a wormhole of 'home consoles' and constantly being prompted to sign in with my account to allow my daughters account to open any games.

I can't believe this is a totally unique isolated use case but trying to work out how to manage it seems absolutely mind bending
 
Conanius said:
So I would appreciate some advice. I think I'm being a clown, but lets gloss over that.

We've got an X Box series X in the lounge. Its got Game Pass Ultimate. It has 4 Profiles on it, Mine and my Wifes, and then our two Childrens. The Gamepass is on my account. I also use that gamepass account on my PC.

We've bought an additional X Box (series S) for the family room as the kids have been enjoying doing games together like Sea of Thieves.

Is there some sort of family tier I can upgrade my Game Pass to, and if not, what is the best way to make it so we can put games on the other console and allow the accounts to use them. I tried doing it last night but seemed to fall into a wormhole of 'home consoles' and constantly being prompted to sign in with my account to allow my daughters account to open any games.

I can't believe this is a totally unique isolated use case but trying to work out how to manage it seems absolutely mind bending
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There used to be a Family Pass but MS revoked it a year or so ago. I was in the same boat. Had to get my daughter GP for her XBOX Series S in her bedroom.

Also check in settings. Most new consoles come with 3 months free pass.

What I did for a while was have all 3 accounts on the XBSX downstairs. Then have my profile on my daughters console as the "home" console, have it auto sign in as me when it was turned on so it activated the licences. Then have my daughter swap to her profile when she turned on her controller.
 
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Downloaded Oblivion as soon as I saw it was available ( didn’t realise it was today!).

Blasted through the opening section for that sweet existing the sewer nostalgia hit. Felt like it did when I played it the first time all those years ago.

Messed around between performance and quality and then immediately switched it back to performance. Quality feels atrocious in comparison (motion blur makes it an abomination) but performance feels like it’s targeting 60fps, at least on my VRR enabled TV.

Need to see the options on pc now to confirm where I want to play it. Need a new gou as my ARC A750 will cry when given a UE5 title.
 
oweneades said:
Downloaded Oblivion as soon as I saw it was available ( didn’t realise it was today!).

Blasted through the opening section for that sweet existing the sewer nostalgia hit. Felt like it did when I played it the first time all those years ago.

Messed around between performance and quality and then immediately switched it back to performance. Quality feels atrocious in comparison (motion blur makes it an abomination) but performance feels like it’s targeting 60fps, at least on my VRR enabled TV.

Need to see the options on pc now to confirm where I want to play it. Need a new gou as my ARC A750 will cry when given a UE5 title.
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Same, Quality was jerky.

That is one thing that frustrates me with this generation of consoles, game developers know the platform the game is going on yet always seem to do either quality/performance - on a XSX if quality is jerky, no one is going to use it, just make the game run as good as it can like before.
 
Baz said:
Same, Quality was jerky.

That is one thing that frustrates me with this generation of consoles, game developers know the platform the game is going on yet always seem to do either quality/performance - on a XSX if quality is jerky, no one is going to use it, just make the game run as good as it can like before.
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I just wish more had the 40FPS option that some games have (Avowed for instance). On a VRR 120Hz display this feels almost the same as 60FPS but generally gains the better visuals.

There is likely and argument for better per system optimisation as well.

Of course most of the time the extra "grunt" of the consoles was just used to put the fancy marketable features and not focused on an actual better product (i.e. better animations, NPC AI, NPC dialogue (that isn't AI garbage)). This is the issue I have at times with CP2077. There are times where it looks brilliant and the NPC's are acting with a natural flow (for want of a better phrase) but other times it looks "eh" and the NPC's are walking into walls / into one another completely breaking any immersion I had.

/Rant mode off. :)
 
Finished Avowed over the weekend. Took me 28 hours and I'd done a lot of the content (although not all of the side quests). It was good fun, ended up bombing around with dual pistols in the end which was fun, especially with the slowdown mechanic that I'd unlocked. Story was OK, but there were parts were I was just skipping through and wanting to shoot stuff.

Going to start Expedition 33 next, need more time to game with all these RPGs that keep dropping.
 
Looks like Microsoft is upping the price of hardware.

See costs in USD below:
  • Xbox Series S 512 - $379.99 (up from $299.99)
  • Xbox Series S 1TB - $429.99 (up from $349.99)
  • Xbox Series X Digital - $549.99 (up from $449.99)
  • Xbox Series X - $599.99 (up from $499.99)
  • Xbox Series X 2TB Galaxy Special Edition $729.99 (up from $599.99)
  • Xbox Wireless Controller (Core) - $64.99
  • Xbox Wireless Controller (Color) - $69.99
  • Xbox Wireless Controller - Special Edition - $79.99
  • Xbox Wireless Controller - Limited Edition - $89.99 (up from $79.99)
  • Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 (Core) - $149.99 (up from $139.99)
  • Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 (Full) - $199.99 (up from $179.99)
  • Xbox Stereo Headset -$64.99
  • Xbox Wireless Headset - $119.99 (up from $109.99)
 
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