All the games in today’s Inside Xbox are optimized for Xbox Series X so we should see what the SSD is capable of.
Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***
I’m inclined to agree with you there but I feel that would be quite misleading to use this badge if there were loading times more than a few seconds, say 10.
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Going back to the Optimized badge on previous page, Aaron Greenberg says a bit more...
https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/1258264844618227712
Obviously that's from a Microsoft employee but it still sounds good.
https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/1258264844618227712
Obviously that's from a Microsoft employee but it still sounds good.
I found this page which lists some features, as you say AC Valhalla doesn't have the 60fps but it's early days. Things could change.
https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/consoles/xbox-series-x#games
Personally, I'll be peed off to the nines if it isn't 60fps.
And it doesn't look like Yakuza: Like A Dragon is even 4K HDR. Bizarro.
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I don't think it's necessarily the feel but that 30fps seems to judder on my TV when panning around.
Yup, Ampere GPU and PS5 it will be then. No point having two consoles at 30fps.
News post talking about backward compatibility
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/05/28/xbox-series-x-next-generation-backward-compatibility/
In summary
- full power of XSX for all BC games
- reductions in load times due to SSD
- HDR for all BC games
- more titles will be increased to 4K resolution
- new technique to enable some 30fps games to run at 60fps and 60fps to run at 120fps
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/05/28/xbox-series-x-next-generation-backward-compatibility/
In summary
- full power of XSX for all BC games
- reductions in load times due to SSD
- HDR for all BC games
- more titles will be increased to 4K resolution
- new technique to enable some 30fps games to run at 60fps and 60fps to run at 120fps
Or because they are developing the game for a platform list as long as your arm - Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series X, PS4, PS4 Pro, PS5, Google Stadia, PC. That is not a light workload by any stretch of the imagination.
Yeah, Jim Ryan seems to be hinting the PS5 won't be "cheap" like $399 but more like $499 so Microsoft can come in at $449 or even take a big hit and do $399 themselves.
I would suggest they are dead in the water then. Few PlayStation people are going to shift to Xbox when it costs more, even if it is slightly more powerful. Joe Public doesn't care about better raytracing or 2 extra Tflops. The only way they can charge more for XSX is if they do launch Series S as well.
The latest gossip suggests that Microsoft are partnering with Sega in Japan and the Xbox brand will be dropped. Sega Series X will be the console name and all the marketing done that way.
I assume the XSX will support multiple SSD carts? So, for example, you could have driving games on one cart, FPS on another cart and you can just swap them in and out willy nilly with the console updating the library screen as necessary? I haven't really seen anything about this but I guess it will be an expensive way of doing things, maybe £150 per 1TB cart.
Why what are you thinking?
The external carts are exactly the same as the internal one, so still 2.4GB/sec.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/03/16/xbox-series-x-glossary/
Lots of info there, SSD is part of the Velocity Architecture, along with DirectStorage, Hardware Decompression and Sampler Feedback Streaming.
When I read that page, it makes the Xbox sound amazing. How all that will work in practice remains to be seen. It could be better than 90% of gaming PCs or it could all be Apple-esque marketing blurb.
They do with first party titles now so I expect that to continue but can't see third parties getting on board and losing revenue. If anyone was going to do it, I'd expect CDPR to have announced it for Cyberpunk 2077. But it's probably a tough sell getting them to agree to giving you a Series X version if you buy an Xbone version - looking at EA as an example - let alone giving you an Xbox and PC version.
No and yes. Microsoft's strategy is to get their games and services on as many devices as possible now. They will never leave the PC out again.
The thing that keeps me intrigued about the Xbox though is that it sounds like it can punch above its weight with all these fancy-sounding features it's got - Dynamic Input Latency, Variable Rate Shading, Sampler Feedback Streaming, etc. I just don't know whether it's worth spending 3x as much on a PC (mine really needs to be gutted and started again) if the XSX is going to do 60fps gaming... mostly. That might be a trade-off I'm willing to take for a few years at least until beastly PC tech trickles down to a cheaper level.
I'm just watching the Digital Foundry video on the PS5 event, they seem to think all the first party games from Sony will be 4K30, going for graphics instead of frame rate. With the Xbox, it seems the extra power could do 4K60 and when you read about the lower latency for the controller (why have that if you are not aiming for a higher frame rate) it does sound like it might end up being my multiplatform (and main) console with PS5 for exclusives only. A reversal of this gen.
I'm just watching the Digital Foundry video on the PS5 event, they seem to think all the first party games from Sony will be 4K30, going for graphics instead of frame rate. With the Xbox, it seems the extra power could do 4K60 and when you read about the lower latency for the controller (why have that if you are not aiming for a higher frame rate) it does sound like it might end up being my multiplatform (and main) console with PS5 for exclusives only. A reversal of this gen.