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

Which will you buy?

  • Series X

    Votes: 535 59.5%

  • Series S

    Votes: 105 11.7%

  • Not interested

    Votes: 234 26.0%

  • Both

    Votes: 25 2.8%
  • Total voters
    899
robfosters said:
4K 60fps sounds good, but you don’t know how much they’re dropping settings to achieve it.
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That's the whole point - they've exceeded the PC version at Ultra settings!

And they didn't seem to be even using any of the new techniques on the XSX like VRS, SFS, etc. so they could probably do even more on Gears 6.
 
Plus, there're rumours that Halo Infinite is going to be a big, online games-as-a-service thing and they want as many people to get in to it (via Game Pass and free multiplayer).
 
Davanius said:
I am also at a tipping point. I currently have a 2070 super and starting to get a bit frustrated with not getting the full value out of PC hardware if that's the right way to put it. Games like Crysis, Half life, Fear etc are long gone it seems. Those were games that improved the experience with upgrades.

Now I am playing Gears and COD with a £500 GPU. These new consoles have excellent hardware in them and will be coded properly so here's me hoping to see something special today from the show.
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Yeah, after watching Digital Foundry's video on Crysis for Switch, it just seems the PC is needed if you want to go higher than 60fps. That's really it. The games that are taxing the hardware are not designed to be taxing in the way older games were with better effects/physics/AI, etc. just unoptimized. Well, that's what it seems like to me. So why pay 3x more for a PC when you're not really getting the best out of it. That's what's tipping me towards both consoles in November.

Game Pass is going a long way to help.
 
I couldn't really watch as I had a mini-crisis to deal with but it looked like there was little to zero gameplay apart from Halo Infinite. Did they not learn their lesson after last time?
 
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I think the objective of the showcase is spot on - get as many subscribers to Xbox Game Pass however you can. Be it on Xbox One, Xbox Series X or Windows 10. For the sheer range of games that one could potentially play for as little as £1, I'm on board.
 
Gerard said:
At around 5:05 in the halo vid an elite throws one of the grunts into the air, little grunt has 2 plasma grenades :p . Can anyone fill me in on what the story is for this? Almost looks like a revisit of Halo 1 with Covenant forces running around again.
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I haven't got a clue what's going on since I haven't played any Halo since 3 but it's something to do with The Banished.

https://www.halopedia.org/Banished
 
If the Lockhart console comes out for about £249 and can do everything the XSX can but at 1080p or 1440p (same frames) then it's probably an easy buy. I don't have any more HDMI 2.0 sockets left on my TV, LMAO. :D Need something for the HDMI 1.4 one.
 
So, in the words of the guys at Digital Foundry, another opportunity squandered. Nothing in that showreel that demonstrates the power of the SSD. We still have no idea how long a game takes to boot before we start playing. Is the SSD all a load of hot air?
 
Robert said:
Not being funny, but we know SSDs offer a much better experience. Whilst a video would’ve been nice, we know what baseline SSD performance should offer.
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Aye, I know but are we really going to get (almost) zero load times? I'm pretty much expecting an initial 30-60 second load time still for games and maybe after that a few seconds here and there for level transitions and loading save games. I look forward to being completely wrong.

@Poneros That ET meme is the best one I've seen. :D:D
 
Interesting that "The Medium" doesn't require an SSD for its PC version. Probably to be expected with the first batch of games, not really using the Velocity Engine to its full potential.
 
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