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

Which will you buy?

  • Series X

    Votes: 536 59.6%

  • Series S

    Votes: 105 11.7%

  • Not interested

    Votes: 234 26.0%

  • Both

    Votes: 25 2.8%
  • Total voters
    900
Quick question: Has anyone else experienced vsync issues when playing certain Series X games?

I have the X and every game works fine, except Street Fighter 6, which experiences vsync issues all the time, no matter what I do in settings, either in the game or on my monitor. Even stranger, I had a Series S until a couple of months ago and used to play this game all the time, fine, with no issues.
 
CliffyG said:
Just got round to playing Indiana Jones after having it pre-loaded and it needs 130gb. What's the point of pre-loading!
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I might be wrong but I’ve read somewhere it’s an issue with how patching works on Xbox for some devs/publishers. Maybe linked with smart deployment.

I had the same with Stalker 2. Pre loaded. Went to play it - update required.

Had to download the entire game again.

Happens with some games but not others. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to download Halo Infinite in it’s entirety!! Yet other titles just update like normal with incremental patches.

But yeah, kind of makes pre loading pointless given most new releases have day 1 patches.

Have to say it’s not a phenomenon I’ve ever seen in my PS5.
 
I'm thinking of getting 1 month gamepass ultimate to play the new Indiana Jones game via streaming. It's only gonna cost about £10 and I reckon I would complete the game in that time!

Can't see a dedicated thread in Consoles, but as it's XBOX exclusive for now, what are peoples thoughts on it?

The cloud streaming always uses the Series S version of the game, so has anyone played that either on their series S or via streaming to give ma an idea if it is worth it? If the performance is poor, I guess I can wait for the eventual PS5 release, albeit there is no exact date as of now.


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It’s really good well worth a months game pass sub to play. Not played via streaming so cannot help with that. I’m pretty sure MS upgraded the cloud streaming to Series X a while back.
 
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I have GPU and whilst I’m only a couple of hours in, so far Indiana Jones has really captured the feel of the Indy films.

Can’t really review the game properly as I haven’t done enough, but I’ve seen enough to know I’m probably going to thoroughly enjoy it.

That’s not to say it’s a groundbreaking or otherwise brilliant game, you understand, just that it’s my cup of tea, and I like it! :)
 
Anyone having issues with the STALKER 2 update? I loaded mine up this morning and found it was doing whay lots of folk have had - crashing to the xbox dashboard when trying to load saved games.

Luckily, I managed to solve it by loading my oldest saved game from a good few hours back compared to where my latest saved game was, then once it had loaded successfully, go ahead and load up your latest saved game. YMMV though, as this still hasn't worked for some people.

They have as one of the 'fixes' removed the ability to extend your carry weight to 140kg by buying various armour suits and upgrading their carry capacity one by one and then storing them in your stash. Once my latest save loaded up I found I couldn't move and had to drop a couple of extra weapons I had intended to sell :D
 
I would get both, but like this generation, Xbox would probably be my primary focus within reason, simply because gamepass is so decent compared to psn plus on average, assuming they didn't really screw the pooch on comparative capabilities etc.
 
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Cromulent said:
Curious. If Microsoft released a brand new Xbox generation and so did Sony - would you stay with Xbox or switch to the Playstation?
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At the moment, given my feelings about the direction Xbox/Microsoft are heading, I'd pass on a new Xbox console. Sony is still doing enough, in my opinion, to consider picking up the next Playstation. I'm more excited about the next Switch, though, to be honest.
 
That's also a pretty reasonable take, and I guess it really depends on what you value.
The series x discless was a step in the wrong direction as far as I'm concerned, at the same time gamepass is available affordably and is genuinely better imo than Sony's equivalent offering.

The growing lack of exclusives is a shame but at the same time not everyone cares about that as long as the games they do want to play are available...
 
xaldub said:
At the moment, given my feelings about the direction Xbox/Microsoft are heading, I'd pass on a new Xbox console. Sony is still doing enough, in my opinion, to consider picking up the next Playstation. I'm more excited about the next Switch, though, to be honest.
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I'm going to get the new Switch as soon as it comes out. The main use of my Xbox at the moment is just to play DVDs and Blu-rays. If every console after this generation goes diskless I'm not sure what I would do. Buy a dedicated Blu-ray player I guess.
Alexrose1uk said:
That's also a pretty reasonable take, and I guess it really depends on what you value.
The series x discless was a step in the wrong direction as far as I'm concerned, at the same time gamepass is available affordably and is genuinely better imo than Sony's equivalent offering.

The growing lack of exclusives is a shame but at the same time not everyone cares about that as long as the games they do want to play are available...
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I got the Series X specifically because it had a Blu-ray drive and that I have owned every Xbox generation but I'm starting to think I might just do most of my gaming on the Switch.
 
Yes, the Switch 2 could genuinely be excellent and offer something the other machines don't, although we have to see. I've been very comfortable having a switch on top of everything else!
 
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